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Look at the fall of Evergrande, think of the future of Vietnam's football

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Guangzhou F.C., once known as Guangzhou Evergrande, bore the namesake of the company that financed and gave the club enormous power in the football (or American word "soccer") world. Now, it is on the verge of dissolution, as the team's owner is in a financial crisis. The Chinese Football Association began an attempt to fix the messes, but it was too late. It was a shocking blow for a country that back in the late 1990s to early 2010s, was among one of Asia's most elite football nations. One of the main reasons that helped China to get such a powerful status was the very large Super League, where Chinese clubs got their backs from powerful business people. Like a high-speed locomotive train, China's rise in economic terms is drawn largely from these conglomerates. Now, the national league is facing a tremendous crisis. Over sixteen clubs from China's top three divisions had already gone. The impact also made its way to the national team: Team Dragon, the nickn...

The mirror of glorious past - the tragedy of the future

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  Myanmar, or you can say, Burma, is a country of every reflection on the mind of the people. Historically, the country is unique. And even in the modern era, it is still unique. It appears to be everything in your minds, like how I watched the movie "Beyond Rangoon". But it is also a story where power brought them might, and yet power also brought Myanmar, into tragedy... just like the current coup and protests... Glory of an imperial state History of Burma began with the migration of people from the mountains of Tibet and today's Yunnan to the plateau of Irrawaddy river. They first came to Burma in 11,000 BC, but it only became a civilisation from 2nd century BC onward. They established a series of city-states called Pyu, and ruled independently, not an organised structure. Because these city-states maintained limited contact outside between themselves, China and India, historian disagreed on how to interpret the Pyu-states' histories, as they all developed for them...