I used to live and work in Liaoning, a traditional football stronghold in
China. I love China and admire many of its players.
However Huang Jianxiang has pissed me off. While he has a right to support
Italy, he shouldn't bag the socceroos plus his reasons for hating them are
crap and highly hypocritical. Huang hates the Australian side because our
players live and play in Europe. If that's his reasoning then China should
never have let players such as Li Tie, Li Weifeng, Sun Jihai, Hao Haidong,
Shao Jiayi, Xie Hui, Li Jinyu, Dong Fangzhou or Du Wei play for the national
side as they all play (or have played) in Europe.
I won't be back in China for a while, so any Chinese friends out there who see
this guy can you give him a message please? Tell him I said "Huang Jianxiang,
wo cao ni ma bi!"
Thanks guys. Hope both China and Australia make the 2010 world cup.