Little Red Card  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8764 (Dec. 2011), page 39-42.
Topik: Teams; Professional Soccer; International; Quality Control
Fulltext: Little red card.pdf (55.99KB)

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The pass back to the goalkeeper seemed routine for Qingdao Hailifeng FC in its match against Sichuan FC in September 2009, even if the ball was struck a little too hard and the keeper only just managed to stop it running past him and into the net. Qingdao was safely ahead 3-0 with two minutes left in a meaningless match in China's second division. What could be amiss? Then a Qingdao assistant coach gestured for the keeper to come forward from the penalty area. Another Qingdao player promptly chipped the ball over him and towards the net, missing an own goal by inches. The final whistle blew soon afterwards. Qingdao's owner Du Yunqi was irate--at his team's utter incompetence. As he would later admit to investigators, he had just lost a bet that there would be a total of four goals scored in the game. His humiliated assistant coach said on national television, Afterward the boss was angry and scolded me, saying I bungled things and couldn't even fix a match. The hapless case of chip-shot gate, as the Qingdao game came to be known, is just one low point in aeons of Chinese footballing ineptitude.

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