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🗓️ 12 April 2023
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There was a time when it looked like China was going to be the next big thing in world soccer. After the government published an elaborate 50-point plan back in 2015, billions of dollars was spent developing China's professional league, building youth soccer academies across the country, and recruiting foreign stars to China for huge sums of money. But now, that ambitious program is all but dead. Today we discuss the rise and fall of China's oversized soccer dream.
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1:09.2 | For many years, China was basically a non-factor in the world of soccer. |
1:13.4 | Even though it has more than a billion people and has racked up all kinds of metals at the Olympics, |
1:18.0 | China didn't have a good professional soccer league and it had never produced a global soccer star. |
1:22.8 | And then, about eight years ago, it looked like all of that was about to change. |
1:28.4 | President Xi Jinping has decided it's China's turn to step up. |
1:33.2 | He produced a 50-point plan to turn China into a soccer powerhouse. |
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