Shanghaiist: How terrible is the Chinese Football Association? Ask middle school students.

Bsta1382

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:00:15 +0700

World Cup? Ha!! The US hopes they doe't win! They /me certainly don't like the idea of driving our kids to a Soccer Practice!! Hell, Olympic diving is more exciting then Soccer! Well, the free kicks are fun to watch, but the rest can do without!

James Creegan

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:57:47 +0700

Only people who've won the world cup can decide what it's called OK?

Bsta1382

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:48:46 +0700

It's Soccer Passed the baton to who? While China's GDP has them ranked at #2, their GDP per capita (person) has them ranked at 96. This depression has shown the US to be even MORE important. So many countries/people/companies have been buying US T-bills that the interest rate is effectively around Zero! The Chinese are unhappy to buy, but they're trapped; forced to buy the government bonds or risk crippling their own country. Ignoring the US-China loans (which are purely financially derived), nobody even comes close to matching the US in terms of Foreign aid. The US is also by far the largest player on the global arena, whom countries turn to to resolve their problems. China also has no interest in being a responsible part of the world. Relatively speaking, they're not even doing anything regarding their neighbor North Korea, are supporting the oppressive government in Myanmar, and selling Sudan the weapons it uses to kill its own people. They've pretty much refused to take a meaningful part in anything outside their own boarders for the last 60 years, if not most of history. Sure, the Chinese have started to venture 'outside' into countries like Zimbabwe and Iran, but all they're doing there is building factories and for extracting 'stuff' out of the ground. They don't even bother to assist in things like building schools. If it doesn't directly put money in their hand or food in their belly, the Chinese largely see it as a waste. Maybe someday China will try to become a responsible, active player in the Global Arena. Until then, the US will remain the clear center of the world. The US will remain the country that others turn to for help, the country where people want to live, and a model for rights like the Freedom of Speech (even though we weren't always practice them correctly during the last 8 Bush years).

BBC1

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:57:29 +0700

No one calls football "soccer" in 90 percent of the world. The US version shud be renamed handball, since it's mostly played by hands, but then there is another game already called handball! LOL! Lamb shaslik, remember the US is not the centre of the world now! The baton has been passed! ;)

nanheyangrouchuan

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:54:00 +0700

It's soccer, not football.

Pirx

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:52:40 +0700

Cheating, or at least bending the rules to crack-point, since the Olympic Games has become officially a national past-time. Unfortunate, but that is China...

BBC1

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:38:05 +0700

If you look at China's current development, there is no way you are going to win at the "school" level, unlike in the West. This is because you are more likely to find a higher percentage of soccer players in the population of Germany or Brzil, for example, and many school sports programs are well developed. The CFA officers need to be shot, no doubt. But what is this obsession with soccer? Very few Chinese actually play the sport aand many are keen spectators. In India, their soccers sucks even more than China, but their cricket is very good, because everyone plays the game. The only way for China to make a dent on the sport is for the passion to ignite amongst the Chinese populace, to actually get off their couch watching on TV to actually playing. Walking around Chinese cities, you are more likely to see kids playing basketball, but very few kicking a soccer ball.

BBC1

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:37:29 +0700