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China’s Grassroots Football Subculture

China has never had much luck promoting football. You don’t often see it played on the streets, in backyards, or schoolyards. Yet there are growing grassroots football subculture developing in unexpected places. VICE Sports travels with one of Beijing’s most prestigious independent teams to a Naxi village in the rural southwest to see what happens when old and new China mix on the pitch. Watch the entire series at http://www.riseasone.com.

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