Welcome back, Greenlion !!! Why in this season the capacity of the Guangzhou stadium has been only 40k ?
Just heard that Dalian Aerbin bought Dalian Shide for 320 million RMB!! Is is true?! That's ridiculous!
Although it has 60,151 seats, the goverment only allows to sell 40,000 tickets for each match because of safty concern (fans riot, trffic etc.)
Yeah I heard the same from WEF: http://wildeastfootball.net/2012/11/aerbin-purchases-dalian-shide-for-rmb-3-2-billion/ Don't know whose name/records they're gonna keep, just hope there's an even number of teams next season.
Yep, like napoli said - good work greenlion. I know you've posted for previous seasons as well. Do you know if numbers have increased across the board over time, or have they been more or less the same?
I'm not so sure about this. On Wikipedia, the football match capacity is given as 58,500. Last season, a couple of games I attended had official attendances of over 50,000. This season, games where the stadium was full to much the same extent (e.g. against Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua in July, or when winning the title against Liaoning Whowin recently) had official attendances of less than 40,000. I've been to games where the official attendance was 30-35,000, and looked it, and the difference between the attendances at these and the above-mentioned games was certainly greater than 5-10,000.
Here is the 18-man squad that will play against Guangzhou Evergrande in the CSL All-Star game tomorrow: Goalkeeper – Zeng Cheng (Henan), Deng Xiaofei (Jiangsu) Defenders – Du Wei (Shandong), Wu Xi (Shenhua) Zheng Zheng (Shandong), Tang Miao (R&F), Dubic (Guizhou), Liu Jianye (Jiangsu) Midfielders – Yu Dabao (Aerbin), Keita (Aerbin), Yu Hanchao (Liaoning), Lu Bofei (Jiangsu), Xu Liang (Beijing), Hao Junmin (Shandong) Strikers – Danalache (Jiangsu), Yang Xu (Liaoning), Utaka (Aerbin), Yakubu (R&F) *From wildeastfootball.net
Streaming sites say it's in 20 minutes? Oh crap, it is. Damnit, I am watching my beloved Gamba play. But I really, really want to see this, tooooooo!
So Liu Jianye won it for the All-Stars with a 45th minute winner. Match ended 1-0 to the All-Stars. Does anyone know the attendance for the match?
so many questions to answer (zhou jiabao's and others) so many news to post (bari mamatil and his contract fiesto) so many stuff to update (how china u-19 becomes worst and worst under CFA). your mod ntg. needs a break due to exhaustive work and personal matters. i will be back by sunday. have fun guys keep the forum classy.
2012 CSL Awards: Footballer of the year - Cristian Danalache (Jiangsu) Goalkeeper of the year - Deng Xiaofei (Jiangsu) Young player of the year - Zhang Xizhe (Beijing) Manager of the year - Dragan Okuka (Jiangsu) 2012 CSL Best XI: GK - Deng Xiaofei DF - Sun Xiang, Du Wei, Dino Dulbic, Zheng Zheng MF - Yu Hanchao, Zheng Zhi, Dario Conca, Wang Yongpo FW - Cristian Danalache, Gao Lin (Surprised that Peter Utaka wasn't in the Best XI.)
Zhang Linpeng has always have a good name in the Chinese netizen circle. With his appearance slightly resemble Sergio Ramos, netizens call him Zhang-mos (張莫斯). In recent interview, Zhang told the netizens to "please don't call me Zhang-mos anymore, I am not as tall as Ramos, and we started in different position". Zhang also said he would be interested to play for Xu Genbao's Shanghai East Asia, saying that he where he learn his football skill from.
LOL i haven't check if that is true but if that is true, that's sad cause beijing just got an ACL spot due to Guizhou's failure to win the CFA Cup
situation: - CFA said they haven't receive any news from Shide if the team is really going to merge with Aerbin or not - Shenxin bitched at CFA, saying CFA did not do a plan B and did not notify Shenxin of what to do - Shenxin coach said some of the players are in holiday-mode (not match fit) and some players' contracts have expired, the team might not be ready for extra-match - Shenxin again bitched at CFA for making the team play an extra match, while few years back similar case happen and Hangzhou Greentown doesn't need to play extra match to stay at CSL
I found out from a video on Sina. There were a lot of Guoan fans at the airport carrying pictures of Pacheco and waving Guoan flags. They were chanting Pacheco's name and Pacheco left to go on a plane. In the comments, it said he was released by the club.
And Guangzhou Evergrande has just signed Feng Renliang from Shanghai Shenhua. Got this from their official website.
man i chuckled at those reporters that are glorifying the signing of feng renliang. "feng is a good dribbler that caused many headaches for CSL defenders". sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. anyway, random news: it was mentioned that Lippi can't stand Chinese food, but he loves 老火湯. what is 老火湯? it is random soup that is boiled for long period of time (mostly half day), the soup is usually boiled that long to get the meat taste for the soup.