Xi admits China's soccer is a disaster
China's national team is so catastrophically bad that when they beat Thailand 2-1, Xi Jinping himself had to say the win "probably involved a lot of luck." Now they're getting demolished 5-0 by Palestine at home. This isn't hidden incompetence. The guy running the country is on video saying his own team can't play.
China's men's soccer team fell 5-0 to Palestine in a home friendly in Chongqing. The hosts conceded three goals before halftime and have now let in eight across two consecutive defeats.
A president forced to publicly acknowledge his country's humiliation is either a story about soccer, or about what people are willing to say when failure is undeniable.
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