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Port Adelaide chairman David Koch announced on Wednesday his club would host the AFL’s first premiership season game in Shanghai in 2017.
Kochie hinted on Tuesday’s FIVEAA breakfast show the game would happen…
“This is a moment many people thought would never happen, let alone as soon as 2017,” said Kochie said on Wednesday.
“The AFL will become the first elite foreign competition to play a regular season game for points in China, beating the likes of the NBA, English Premier League, Major League Baseball and NFL. That is a monumental achievement in itself and speaks volumes of the strength of the relationship between our two nations.
“This is so much more significant that just playing a game for premiership points on foreign soil. This is a landmark moment in the development of Australia’s sporting, cultural, political, economic and tourism ties with China.
“The appetite for AFL football in China is even stronger than we could have imagined when Port Adelaide began forging relationships there.”
According to portadelaidefc.com.au, the Power will travel to Shanghai’s Jiangwan Stadium to play the Gold Coast Suns on Sunday 14 May, in a game that will be broadcast back into Australia by host telecast partner Channel 7.
