Football: China Juniors To Play 16 German Clubs
Zeeshan Mehtab Published November 14, 2017 | 08:10 PM
China's Under-20 team will on Saturday play the first of 16 planned friendlies against German fourth-division opposition in an experiment aimed at advancing the Asian superpower's chances at the 2020 Olympics
Berlin, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Nov, 2017 ) :China's Under-20 team will on Saturday play the first of 16 planned friendlies against German fourth-division opposition in an experiment aimed at advancing the Asian superpower's chances at the 2020 Olympics.
China's government, led by football fan President Xi Jinping, is investing in the sport in the hope of ending years of national underachievement. Angela Merkel's German government signed a five-year football partnership agreement with China's vice-premier Liu Yandong last November.
As a result, China's under-20 men's national squad will play a series of friendly matches in Germany over the next six months to help develop them with an eye on the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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