‘Village Super League’ and Messi spark football mania in China
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While Lionel Messi and world champions Argentina received warm welcome in Beijing attending an international friendly against Team Australia, thousands of kilometers away, a county in China’s Guizhou Province is hosting a phenomenal “Village Super League” organized and played by the local residents. The league has gone viral online with its electric atmosphere and massive football enthusiasm. In this episode, we invite a game insider to the chat to have a peek into this popular grassroots games. Also, we touch on those interesting stories during Messi’s stay in Beijing.
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