Chinese football is a 10-year project

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So many people are talking about Chinese football and the star names moving to the Super League, such as Alex Teixeira, Ramires and Jackson Martinez, but the former Denmark striker Ebbe Sand is working at the other end of the Chinese football spectrum, working with the young Chinese players at the grassroots. He's set up only the second football academy in the whole of China in Shanghai, so does he think a new generation of young Chinese players are about to emerge? (Image: Ebbe Sand Soccer Academy players and their parents celebrating taking part in Taizhou Tournament. Credit: ESSA)