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China Evergrande Won the Championship in AFC Champions League, Winning Honor for the Motherland

 Date:2013.11.10   Publisher:

We are the champion! On the night of November 9, in the second round of the final of AFC Champions League, China Evergrande played in the home court and Korea's Seoul FC in the guest court, the result was 1: 1; the total score of the two rounds was 3: 3. By dint of its overwhelming advantage in the number of times of goal-in, it beat the contestant, and won the championship of AFC Champions League 2013. It was the first championship in AFC Champions League in China football history, and also the first Asian championship won by Chinese football in the past 23 years.

China Evergrande set many records in Chinese football, starting a new era for Chinese football. After the match, "The People's Daily" remarked that Evergrande's winning of the championship in AFC Champions League was a munificent gift to the Third Plenary Meeting of the Party's 18th Congress opened on November 9. Right after the match, CPC Committee of Guangdong Province and Guangdong Province People's Government sent their congratulatory letters, praising Evergrande Team for its full display of Chinese sportsmanship and Guangdong spirit of the new era, and encouraged Evergrande to make new achievements in the forthcoming World Club Cup and make new contributions to the realization of "Chinese Dream"; CPC Committee of Guangzhou City and Guangzhou Municipal People's Government also sent their congratulatory letters right after the match, praising Evergrande for its "writing of the new chapter for Guangzhou's football undertaking".

Chairman of Evergrande Group Mr. Hui Ka Yan watched the game at the scene together with many distinguished guests including Mr. Xiao Tian, General Administration of Sport of China, Mr. Salman, President of AFC, Mr. Chen Jianhua, Deputy Secretary of CPC and Mayor of Guangzhou City, Mr. Huo Zhenting, Chairman of Hongkong Olympic Committee, Former Mr. Football of the World, Mr. Figo, Ex-Head of Portugal National Team, and Mr. Jero, Former "Double-base Team Leader" of Spain's National Team and Royal Madrid Team, etc., witnessing this historic moment when China Evergrande Team won the great battle.

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