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  2. China national football team - Wikipedia

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    In light of continued struggles, in 2015, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping expressed the goal of having China's men's national team be the top team in Asia by 2030 and the following year China revealed its ambitious blueprint to be the best in the world by 2050. [49]

  3. Xi Jinping - Wikipedia

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    Xi Jinping [a] (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ... Xi is an avid soccer fan. [433]

  4. Youth football in China - Wikipedia

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    Xi Jinping has been very vocal about the importance of growing youth football and has been a driver of football reform since he became General Secretary in 2012. Xi is known to be an avid football fan. On a visit to Germany in 2014 to observe a Chinese youth development team, Xi said that "I have confidence in you, in your generation.

  5. Ex-champions Guangzhou expelled from Chinese leagues - AOL

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    The new ownership group renamed the side Guangzhou Evergrande and invested heavily on and off the pitch, aligning with China president Xi Jinping's ambition to turn the country into a football ...

  6. Li Tie: China sentences former Everton star and ... - AOL

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    The Chinese government under Xi Jinping has launched a major crackdown to weed out corruption in Chinese football that has seen over a dozen officials of the Chinese Football Association ...

  7. Dozens killed as car ploughs into crowd exercising at China ...

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    Chinese president Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged all-out efforts to treat those injured in the ramming incident. “All localities and relevant departments should make effort to ensure the safety of ...

  8. Association football in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, is a big football fan and one of the most powerful persons in the world. He aims to make China a superpower by putting football in the center of his goal-oriented plan as he wants China to qualify for, host, and win the football World Cup at least once before the year ...

  9. China's Xi to send top-level envoy to Trump's inauguration ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.