China's big plans

One of the biggest country in Asia, PR China is aiming to become world's football superpower by the year 2050. In the 30 years ambitious Government program, until 2020 in the country should be registered 50 million players from all categories. In order to play this beautiful game - where even the president Xi Jinping is a fan of, in the next six years China will significantly improve their football infrastructure, either renewal or building new, more than 70.000 stadiums plus 20.000 football training centres throughout the country.
And while China's female team is enjoying their world's fame and success as one of the best football nation, its male counterparts experienced their greatest success in the 2002 World Cup where they recorded three loses in the group stage. Nowadays, by just looking at the national team play, China is on the good course to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia while they already qualified for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup edition in United Arab Emirates.