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Distro - Football's Coming Home?

Chris Steele-Perkins

Football isn’t new to China, with origins of the game, then known as ‘Kickball’ being traced back over 2000 years. Although probably not the first place you associate with ‘The Beautiful Game’, recent government initiatives and support from football mad President Xi Jinping means the sport is becoming big business. In the past year Chinese Super League clubs have spent hundreds of millions of pounds on buying international players in an effort to boost the country’s sporting reputation and get a step closer to their goal of hosting a World Cup.

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China. Near Zhan Jiang. 2016. The village Primary School of Gaowu....

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