All posts tagged "Tour"
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China National Team
/ 7 months agoChina’s 1982 Asian Games warm up: Hereford, Wigan, Rangers and Charlton
China turned their thoughts to the Asian Games after narrowly missing out on the World Cup. Continuing a newly started trend,...
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Features
/ 2 years agoElton John’s Watford in China in 1983, watched by Xi Jinping
Watford’s last away game in the English First Division in 1982/83 was a 3-1 loss against Ipswich Town. Their next away...
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Features
/ 3 years agoWhen Santos and Socrates toured China
The CITIC Cup and the Foshan Cup are two of the stranger items in the Santos trophy cabinet. They won them...
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Interviews
/ 3 years ago“Enlightening to say the least” – Australia’s 1976 tour of China
Tim Cahill, Ryan McGowan and the Griffiths brothers may be the most famous Australians to play in China but they were...
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China National Team
/ 3 years agoAustralian Adventures: China on tour in 1975
Nineteen Chinese footballers embarked on a tour of New Zealand and Australia in 1975 as their country gradually broadened its international...
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China National Team
/ 4 years agoMaurice Tillotson: When New Zealand toured Chairman Mao’s China
China and Chinese football are great unknowns to many people even in 2017. Both were a whole lot more unknown in...
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China National Team
/ 4 years agoThe year Beijing beat Inter Milan and China beat Roma
Major European clubs are now frequent visitors to China to play in pre-season friendlies but this trend started back in 1978....
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China National Team
/ 4 years ago“China flexes her football muscles” – in 1979 – against Celtic, Chelsea, WBA and Middlesbrough
“China flexes her football muscles” and “Chinese aim for place in the World Cup”: two headlines that could’ve been written in...
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China National Team
/ 4 years agoChina’s historic 1977 tour to the USA remembered
In October 1977, Jimmy Carter was in the White House, the New York Yankees were on their way to another World...
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Features
/ 4 years agoA trumpet-playing panda and half-time ice cream: West Brom’s 1978 tour of China
In May 1978 West Bromwich Albion made history by becoming the first English professional football team to tour China, playing in...