Students warm up before training session at Evergrande soccer academy in Qingyuan, southern China December 4, 2015. Picture taken December 4. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to have more than 70,000 soccer pitches available for everyone to use by 2020 as the country continues to map out ways of revitalising the sport, the government said on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping is an avid soccer fan and China is in the midst of a plan to turn its national team into one of the world's best by 2050, though the sport has been damaged by match-fixing scandals and poor performances on the field.
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