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Beijing’s plan to turn China into a global soccer powerhouse has led to several investments in foreign clubs over the past year, despite China’s general controls on capital exiting the country.
Leicester City Football Club won the English Premier League, beating the odds of 5000-to-1. And when the moment of victory came, their captain, Christian Fuchs, did us the favor of posting the team’s reaction on Twitter.
Defending champion Kowloon Bowling Green Club (KBGC) took full advantage of Craigengower Cricket Club’s (CCC) slip up last Saturday, September 12, to extend its leadership to five points.
Manchester City put their last two bad results behind them to comfortably dispose of Everton 3–1 in Saturday’s early English Premier League kickoff.
Beckham not in top 1,000: Chris Waddle, a former winger with clubs including Newcastle United and Sheffield Wednesday, said David Beckham isn’t even among the top 1,000 players in the Premier League.
