Aussie rules football to have a go in China
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AUSTRALIAN Rules football is storming into China with Port Adelaide aiming to play a league match in the Asian country next year, the club said yesterday, the latest professional sport to eye up the huge potential market.
Port Adelaide, the Australian Football League and Chinese property developer Shanghai Cred signed an agreement, including a 2017 game in China, at a ceremony in Shanghai witnessed by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Australian Rules football is the latest foreign sport to pitch itself to the world’s second-largest economy. The North American National Basketball Association holds preseason games in China every year, while the National Football League is studying the possibility of staging a regular season game in the country.
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