It will contribute to “injury prevention and treatment, the career development of retired footballers, technical development and coach education, and youth development,” a joint statement said. China made the Women’s World Cup — now under way in France — for the seventh time in eight editions, and boasts a record that the men’s team can only envy. But the women’s side does more with far less support, and professional women’s football in China gets little notice and plays to meagre attendances. Cai Yong, an executive committee member of the Chinese Football Association, called the gift “unprecedented”, according to the statement. Alibaba is a minority stakeholder in perennial power Guangzhou Evergrande of the men’s Chinese Super League.

Source: The Express Tribune July 05, 2019 09:45 UTC