Greetings from China

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^ Can you tell us is Yaya Toure a BIG name in China?

 

[cindy2014]

The Chinese people were not interested in football at all when I was in Shanghai for a few years ago and it took me many days to be able to find someone who wanted to play a bit of football with me.

Their government may have the same vision for football as they had with basketball as the popularity for this has grown rapidly over the last few decades. However, it will take time and we should therefore not be to focused on how many potential supporters we have now as newly introduced football viewers are mostly going to support the current successful clubs which for Italy means Juventus.

The Chinese government‘s blind pursuit of real estate economy has encroached public land and space in the urban area. You may hardly find any pitches available to the public in big Chinese cities.

As I stated above, Juventus can't be as popular as Milan and Inter in China because of their sleepy style and long-time domination in the league. The neutrals prefer a league with fierce competition and suspense.

The declining Italian economy has also influenced Seria A's popularity in China. Now the Chinese youth prefer Premier League and La Liga, and Seria A is regarded out-dated.

 

[cindy2014]

Hey friend, welcome back!

I believe you know Suning and this zhang guy better than most of us. do you think they have the sources to bring us back to glory days?

Yes. I am cautiously optimistic. Let's wait and see.

Suning is the second biggest offline retailer in China and now it maintains a cross-shareholding cooperative relationship with Alibaba, which worths about 150 billion USD in the open market. Over the short term Suning won't meet any financial crisis. Zhang Jindong is a business man. He will mainly let Italians to manage Inter and won't play any hands-on role in the team. Javier Zanetti is likely to be appointed as the new chairman someday.

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^ Can you tell us is Yaya Toure a BIG name in China?

In football fan's eyes, yesedobear:

 

[Mortimer]

Someone has eaten too many fortune cookies. The attempt at broken English really isn't very good.

 

[RichDAS]

I've been living in Shanghai for almost 2 years now and I do believe that Inter are the most supported Italian team here in the city. Most times I play football, or walking past a few football pitches, I see more Inter shirts than I do of Milan and Juve. Ofcourse not as many as Barca or Real, but always around 1 to 3 players. I think Inter's bond with China in the past several years helped grow our brand better than Milan and Juve. Do you guys remember that Inter away shirt with the Chinese dragon down one side of the sleeve? I wonder why that was put there?

 

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maybe that is close and we will use dragons in next year t-shirts

Yaya the Dragon

 

[cindy2014]

I've been living in Shanghai for almost 2 years now and I do believe that Inter are the most supported Italian team here in the city. Most times I play football, or walking past a few football pitches, I see more Inter shirts than I do of Milan and Juve. Ofcourse not as many as Barca or Real, but always around 1 to 3 players.

The same in Shenzhen, where I am living in.blivious:

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maybe that is close and we will use dragons in next year t-shirts

Yaya the Dragon

Yaya is good but a little bit old for Inter. If I were him I'll go to China and earn some retirement pension:work:

 

[takez0]

Did u know something about new milan owner? They just sold 1,1 billion

 

[Provenzano]

you questioning the boy like he is a speaker of suning

 

[ur-um]

A veteran fan, speaker for Suning, or an external marketing company staff, doesn't matter -- great info here!

Some questions:

1)
How's professional football in China doing? How much do tickets cost? Do people in the stands pay for the tickets, or do they get free tickets via sponsors/local government/whomever? (I think it's fine that free tickets get flung around in a startup league btw, as long as the referees are not being bought out at the same time) How big do you foresee football in China to be in, say, 5 years?

2)
Does a typical fan watch both domestic and European football, or just one of the two?

3)
How's Guarin doing these days?

 

[Demokritos]

A veteran fan, speaker for Suning, or an external marketing company staff, doesn't matter -- great info here!

Some questions:

1)
How's professional football in China doing? How much do tickets cost? Do people in the stands pay for the tickets, or do they get free tickets via sponsors/local government/whomever? (I think it's fine that free tickets get flung around in a startup league btw, as long as the referees are not being bought out at the same time) How big do you foresee football in China to be in, say, 5 years?

2)
Does a typical fan watch both domestic and European football, or just one of the two?

3)
How's Guarin doing these days?

1) Ticket price varies from team to team. Like beijing, league year pass is about 1000 Rmb, about 20-30k pass holders every season. Beijing has average 35k - 40k per game, for those non-holders at least at 2 year back, the normal seat ticket price is from 50rmb - 200rmb.

2) most of them watch domestic only I think due to the 7-8 hour time difference. but normal fan will have a european team or national team to support, and will catch up news.

3) he is quite good in shanghai, but not the best one in shanghai shenhua, as I think Demba Ba, Giovanni Moreno are better players than him (Obafemi Martins is their 4th non-local player). anyway, I dont think they are good enough to bring shenhua to ACL, but they are one of the ACL candidate (3 for CSL) contender, the weaker one among Guangzhou, Jiangsu suning, Hebei and Shanghai SIPG. so you wont be able to see them play with J1 teams . lel

 

[cindy2014]

Did u know something about new milan owner? They just sold 1,1 billion

Right now it still remains as a mystery. Media says that it's joint capital mainly from Evergrande and Baidu. However, the rumor had been officially denied by Evergrande. As for Baidu, I don't think there's enough reason for them to do this. It was grown up under the shelter of GFW and no one use Baidu outside China.

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you questioning the boy like he is a speaker of suning

I hope Suning will pay me for doing a spearker's job here

 

[cindy2014]

A veteran fan, speaker for Suning, or an external marketing company staff, doesn't matter -- great info here!

Some questions:

1)
How's professional football in China doing? How much do tickets cost? Do people in the stands pay for the tickets, or do they get free tickets via sponsors/local government/whomever? (I think it's fine that free tickets get flung around in a startup league btw, as long as the referees are not being bought out at the same time) How big do you foresee football in China to be in, say, 5 years?

2)
Does a typical fan watch both domestic and European football, or just one of the two?

3)
How's Guarin doing these days?

Let me answer you "How big do you foresee football in China to be in, say, 5 years?" since your other questions had been answered above.

The football industry will expand with Chinese economy in the foreseeable future. The transfer fee, brokerage and player salary will become increasingly insane until China is facing potential economic collapse.

The local football players will get improved by playing with talented foreign players but still can't contend against best Asian teams such as Japan and South Korea. They're trained without enough self-discipline, tactical awareness and team spirit in the local football environment.