Imagine if china won the world cup. How would everyone in western social media especially sinophobic anti-chinese people react… would the cope and tears be so high like the beijing olympics ?
Imagine if china won the world cup. How would everyone in western social media especially sinophobic anti-chinese people react… would the cope and tears be so high like the beijing olympics ?
One day the Chinese football team will be good I think. I went once to a Guangzhou Evergrande (i think the club is not owned by Evergrande anymore, not sure what its called now) match and it was a great time, there is an impressive and growing culture of football fans in the country. There were always a good number of people at the pub when I would go to watch Premier League as well. I’m not too familiar with the details but it is my understanding that the Chinese Super League was restructured to promote growth of domestic players and stop the spending of millions of euros on foreign names, which is good.
As for the seething that would occur, I feel that is the case for almost any non-western country in football. Westerner’s will continue living in their corporate media driven fantasy world as long as possible, but material reality won’t care about that. Hopefully China hosts a World Cup soon, I would definitely try to visit for that.