{"id":130725,"date":"2025-06-08T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130725"},"modified":"2025-06-08T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:00:17","slug":"china-puts-down-strong-grass-roots-in-first-steps-to-football-superpower-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130725","title":{"rendered":"China puts down strong grass roots in first steps to football superpower status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTen years have passed since President Xi Jinping, who is reported to be a fan of the game, unveiled a plan to make China a \u201cworld football superpower\u201d by 2050.<br \/>\nSince then, the men\u2019s national team has been overshadowed by its consistently excellent women\u2019s counterpart, while falling in the world rankings from 2016\u2019s 81st place to 94th in April.<br \/>\nThe scandal-stricken football sector has also become a focus of Xi\u2019s anti-corruption campaign in recent years.<br \/>\nYet China has not missed all its&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3313480\/china-puts-down-strong-grass-roots-its-way-football-superpower-status?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTen years have passed since President Xi Jinping, who is reported to be a fan of the game, unveiled a plan to make China&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}