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Mainland soccer fans reveal who they will support at World Cup in Russia this summer as China Soccer Observatory kicks off video series
They are among the reasons given in the Chinese Soccer Observatory’s newly released video, the first in a series interviewing Chinese football fans on who they support and why.
The academic look into fan culture on the mainland is called “Zuqiu Mundial” from the Mandarin name for football (“zuqiu”) and the Spanish word for world – the World Cup is known as the Copa Mundial in Spanish-speaking countries.
The first video features seven Chinese fans being interviewed on camera explaining which teams they will support and which was their first World Cup among other insights.
Produced in conjunction with Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, the University of Nottingham-based research centre interviewed several local fans for this video to understand why they support the teams that they do and how they will watch the World Cup.