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Sun Xiang: Ten day trial

...said: "I think it’s every Chinese player’s dream to play abroad at some point in his career, my national teammates have told me about the life at professional clubs abroad.

"They said these clubs have a completely different type of management when compared to Chinese clubs and that players in China are more strictly supervised.

"They told me that in clubs abroad players know what they can do and what they can’t do, so they don’t need the club to strictly supervise their life. There’s more professionalism."

Little is known in England about the midfielder, the closest we will have come to seeing him play is the Match Against Poverty held at the Bernabeau in Madrid shortly after the Tsunami. He played 35 second half minutes against Zinedine Zidane's team.