How China’s Transfer Rules Made Footballers Untransferable – China Sports

This Chinese New Year must have been a magical experience for Zhou Haibin (周海滨), a 23-year-old midfielder, who now finds himself joyfully as a PSV Eindhoven player. Before joining the Dutch side as a free transfer, the Chinese footballer has been playing at Shandong Luneng FC for 10 years.

After a few days stopover in Beijing, on July 1 North Korean Soccer Team left for their home. In the airport, the reporters surprisingly spotted that North Korean footballers even used the sleazy PP (polypropylene) woven bags to carry their belongings, which is a sharp contrast to the luxury LV bags that Chinese good-for-nothing footballers used.

f you consider that as recently as a generation ago, China did not have any trial lawyers or a criminal law, the country has come a long way in establishing a legal system. But there are many instances in which the laws on the books don't have much effect, and society runs according to a completely different set of unwritten rules.

A report by Tianjin TV station on attempts to introduce Australian Rules Football to university students in Tianjin. The report is spoken in Chinese, but contains some good footage of students kicking around a football on a dust bowl.

In February 2010 CCP issued for its officials a set of rules which lists the prohibited activities (anti-corruption rules). The whole set contains 52 rules. First part of the post shows [in pictures!] the rules 1 to 13 of this ethics codex.

What do you look at when selecting good football players? Height? Legs? One hundred meter times? But, you probably never would think to have a look at penises to select football players. According to one seasoned officials with the Tianjin Locomotive Football club, boys whose genitals are short but thick and whose scrotums are taught are good new sprouts for football.

The image shows players Argentina's team smiling broadly as they pull back the skin on the side of their eyes, in a crude impersonation of Chinese people.

New rules allow teams of Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) to field two foreign players, a move that CBA hoped would attract interest in the league and expose players to tougher competition.

Social networking website Twitter, which is blocked in China, announced a new censorship system on Thursday to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might violate local laws, a move prompting a flurry of criticism around the world. Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei said he would quit Twitter if the company follows through with the new rules.