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...ranked No. 99 by the ITA.“As coaches, we’re very proud of the way she’s developed in the last year,” Harvard coach Traci Green said. “We’re definitely going to miss a super reliable No. 1-type player in our lineup.”In the Ivy League, Ko was more than just reliable. She was perfect. The senior went 5-0 at No. 1 singles and 6-0 at No. 1 doubles. According to Ko, she became more comfortable...
...teams that do exist have problems of their own. The Chinese Super League, now the top-tier professional league in China, has been plagued by scandal in recent years. Despite government intervention to assign the best players to represent China at international tournaments, match-fixing, pitch violence, controversial referees and the outrageous behavior of star players have not helped professional football's fan base in China. "If you keep a record of the champion teams every year, you'll see that the players remain the same every year, only in different jerseys and representing different cities," Wang says. "That...
...Huilongguan Super League takes its inspiration from the Community Shield, an English trophy that matches England's best professional team against its best amateur team for charity. "We came up with a slogan for the championship last year - 'Return sportsmanship to football, and let the people's sport remain a people's sport.' " Wang is not alone in his conviction. In recent years, amateur football leagues have started to catch on in larger neighborhoods in Beijing. On May 17, as 12 teams in the Huilongguan Super League played their 9th round, at least four other community championships were being played...
...Unlike many nations, where pickup games are played in town squares and neighborhood streets, football has never had a wide popular following in China. "Huilongguan Super League is still building the first stage of grassroots football, while in England, grassroots football is the base of the whole football pyramid," says Rowan Simons, a U.K. citizen who runs China's only legally registered amateur football club in China with about 3,500 members. According to FIFA's 2006 "big count," a survey of all its member associations, there were only 382,762 junior players in China. In England, there...
...people have an increasing amount of time and money to spend on leisure, more and more fans like Wang Yuyu are getting involved in building the game, though it is not an easy business. It took Wang almost six months to find sponsorship for this year's Huilongguan Super League. "I do worry about how far we can go," admits Wang. "We grew up watching football and we love this game. But if Chinese football does not reform, will our children still share the same passion...