After David Beckham’s year-long ambassadorial role for the CSL – during which he had increasingly little to do with football – he is set to return to Beijing next month for a slew of other engagements.
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Weekly Wrap: Optimistic Americans, Struggling Print Journos and Manny’s Dreadlocks
Tennis, baseball, both forms of football, badminton, athletics and mahjong all feature in this week’s wrap…
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Brazilian soccer star takes bite of the Chery
Pete Davis has written recently at Goal.com about how well Brazilians are doing in the Chinese Super League (representing 29% of all foreign players). In this week’s Sports Talk column, I look at how well the Chinese are doing in Brazil:
What do Lionel Messi and Neymar have in common? The obvious answer is that they are both among the very best young soccer players in the world, but, off the field, there is now another connection: they have both been sponsored by Chinese automaker Chery.
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