https://www.scmp.com/rss/325941/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com There is little doubt that soccer is the leading spectator sport across Asia. It is commonplace across the Pacific and Greater Asia to have hundreds of millions of fans glued to television sets at home or around town, to catch a game of professional soccer from one of the leading European leagues. Most ­often, this is a match from the English Premier League, quite simply the most popular, widely watched and commercially lucrative professional league in the world. Commercialisation of football... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122455/can-chinese-soccer-rule-world-asian-century?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122455/can-chinese-soccer-rule-world-asian-century?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:03:59 +0000