Chinese soccer faces its biggest match in more than 20 years on Saturday when it plays Japan in the final of the Under-23 Asian Cup in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Despite never advancing past the group ...

TOKYO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is reported to be a big soccer fan, and he promised in a 2015 document to resuscitate the men's national team, damaged by abysmal results on the global stage ...

Encouraging signs are emerging for China's long-suffering soccer fans despite the national team's failure yet again to qualify for the World Cup and the continued struggle of its top clubs in Asian ...

A former Chinese soccer star and coach of the country’s national men’s team has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption, state media reported on Friday. Li Tie, 47, who played for the ...

In April, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a company that makes humanoid robots. There he floated an idea to fix the country's woeful men's soccer team. “Can we have robots join the team?” Xi was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is ...