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BigThink: China Is Mighty Serious About Wanting To Win Football World Cup 2050

Sanjay Anandaram

Mar 25, 2019, 04:24 PM | Updated 04:24 PM IST

Sanjay Anandaram talks about China’s plan to win the football world cup by 2050.

Sanjay Anandaram talks about China’s plan to win the football world cup by 2050.

Can a country that's ranked seventy-fifth in the world in football, that hasn't won even an Asia title, that has participated in just one football world cup, losing all its group matches, hope to qualify, host, and win the football world cup in 2050?

That’s the task China has set itself against – and the odds are about even.

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Sanjay Anandaram has over 30 years of experience as a member of India’s technology-entrepreneur-investment-innovation ecosystem. He is a keen observer of geopolitics especially as it relates to technology and is also the co-founder of NICEorg that aims to catalyze Indian cultural entrepreneurship

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