China national football team are facing significant challenges in attracting high-quality coaches, mainly due to limited financial resources and a lack of global appeal, though the country's media ...

China lost their other seven matches, including a 1-0 defeat to Indonesia last Thursday that confirmed they would not be at next year's tournament in the United States, Mexico and Canada.

President Xi Jinping has said he wanted China to win the World Cup one day but the latest flop means they have only ever played there once, in 2002, when they failed to get a point or score a goal.