Moves: Amazement and Colleagues

moves: Their new colleagues would just stare in wide-eyed amazement at some of our moves, what we did in practice, how we played within a team . Both players were drifting towards the end of their playing careers, but they were still vastly superior to all their team-mates, according to The Guardian. Which is probably what you would expect given that China's solitary appearance in a World Cup came in 2002, losing all three games without scoring a single goal, and we are talking about the nation that is 83rd in Fifa's latest world rankings, directly below Antigua and Barbuda and one above the Faroe Islands, whose combined population could fit into any Shanghai suburb with room to spare. They called him The Almighty and he always remembers the reaction on his first training session after following Nicolas Anelka to the bags of gold at Shanghai Shenhua. Diego Costa sends Chelsea soaring at Palace with 11th straight league win Read more It is certainly easy to understand why, after Graziano Pell signed for Shandong Luneng, one football magazine carried a spoof interview from the Italian expressing his joy to be joining what I presume to be a football club in China or thereabouts . Pell will apparently earn 34m in two and a half years, which breaks down to 260,000 a week, reputedly putting him in the top five best-paid footballers in the world, while leaving the firm impression that whoever runs Shandong hadn't noticed the second L in his surname. It is the same now in China and it did raise a smile when Ramires, on his way out of Chelsea earlier this year, insisted the huge financial incentives had not underpinned his transfer to the Chinese Super League. Remember when Juninho joined Middlesbrough back in the 1990s in one of those transfers that seemed to shape English football Juninho will need to learn only three words of English pound, thank you and bye bye, Jan Aage Fjortoft, one of his new team-mates, said at the time. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.