Wales, Uruguay and Czech Republic\u00a0confirm their participation at the China Cup with host China next March,\u00a0the Chinese Football Association has announced.<\/p>\n
The tournament will be held in Nanning as the preparation for China, who are coached by former World Cup winner\u00a0Marcello Lippi, for 2019 Asian Cup finals\u00a0in early 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe China Cup will provide our national team with more opportunities to play with top foreign teams while also giving fans the chance to enjoy top level football at home,\u201d Qi Jun, the CFA\u2019s director of competitions, said in a statement, as reported by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201dThe competition is scheduled from March 19-27, which fits with the FIFA international match days and means all participating teams can acquire many ranking points and, to achieve this, they will send their best line-ups.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wales, Uruguay and Czech Republic\u00a0confirm their participation at the China Cup with host China next March,\u00a0the Chinese Football Association has announced. The tournament will be held in Nanning as the preparation for China, who are coached by former World Cup winner\u00a0Marcello Lippi, for 2019 Asian Cup finals\u00a0in early 2019. \u201cThe China Cup will provide our national team with more opportunities to play with top foreign teams while also giving fans the chance to enjoy top level football at home,\u201d Qi Jun, the CFA\u2019s director of competitions, said in a statement, as reported by Reuters. \u201dThe competition is scheduled from March 19-27, which fits with the FIFA international match days and … Continue reading “Wales, Uruguay and Czech Republic feature in 2018 China Cup”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[154,1015,416],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-china","tag-china-cup","tag-friendly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}