Angie Quan still recalls the epiphany that occurred the first time she watched Liverpool football club play on television.
“It was like a religious conversion,” the Beijing resident and events planner says, crediting her fluent English, and interest in all things Liverpool, to football. “I felt like someone was . . . saying, ‘Hey, Angie, this is your team’.”
Her love affair with the 2005 Champions League winners mirrors a trend across the country as urbanisation spawns twin desires for leisure and entertainment.
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