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Cyberjag

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Cant speak for Taiwan but here in Korea football has been taking off ( well, taking off isn't the correct way to say it, but anyway). When I first came here in 2004 I ended up hooking up with a football team at a university and playing cornerback for them. They didn't have " real" games like colleges do in the US...but they were interested enough to get  equipment, organize practices and games...etc.

 

These days almost every university in Korea has a "football" club. Note this is not a university-sponsored team, but more or less a university club that organizes games with the clubs from other universities.

Aside from that, there is an amateur league over here that runs city based teams, and well organized enough to have teams in 6-8 different cities, mostly other expats, and have a real "season" on legit fields and playoffs and championships.

 

It's nowhere near like the US, but over my 10 years here its popularity and funding/sponsorship/organization has increased steadily as well. For that we can thank Hines Ward's Korean connection as well as a handful of expats getting out there and organizing a respectable league covering the country.

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27 minutes ago, coralreefer_1 said:

Cant speak for Taiwan but here in Korea football has been taking off ( well, taking off isn't the correct way to say it, but anyway). When I first came here in 2004 I ended up hooking up with a football team at a university and playing cornerback for them. They didn't have " real" games like colleges do in the US...but they were interested enough to get  equipment, organize practices and games...etc.

 

These days almost every university in Korea has a "football" club. Note this is not a university-sponsored team, but more or less a university club that organizes games with the clubs from other universities.

Aside from that, there is an amateur league over here that runs city based teams, and well organized enough to have teams in 6-8 different cities, mostly other expats, and have a real "season" on legit fields and playoffs and championships.

 

It's nowhere near like the US, but over my 10 years here its popularity and funding/sponsorship/organization has increased steadily as well. For that we can thank Hines Ward's Korean connection as well as a handful of expats getting out there and organizing a respectable league covering the country.

Expansion team! Chamsil Stadium in Seoul is amazing.

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