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Once holder of the record for most goals scored in World Cup finals, Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo Nazario has revealed his plans for a football school in Beijing.
Ronaldo told hundreds of fans and reporters at Beijing Workers' Stadium that he is ready to help China realize its football dream. He said he thinks China can be a major player on the world stage one day.
The "Ronaldo Academy" will train kids from 6 to 18 years of age in both general education and football skills. The academy will help youngsters from poor families to reach their soccer goals. It will team up with the "China Children and Teenagers' Fund" to recruit no less than 10 percent of its students from poor families.
Ronaldo's first three schools will be in Beijing, Shanghai and Mianyang city in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The schools are scheduled to be open for enrollment in December.
Ronaldo is just the latest football star to join in China's quest for national football glory. In 2013, David Beckham from Britain was named ambassador for China's youth football program and the Chinese Super League.
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A group of Chinese farmers has hired lawyers to sue a Dutch collector after he refused to return a Buddha statue that had been stolen from a local village in east China's Fujian Province.
Representatives from the village have signed an agreement with seven top lawyers of the province to bring the case to the Dutch court.
Local villagers had been through various channels to negotiate the return of the statue, which had been worshipped at the village temple for 1,000 years until it went missing 20 years ago.
The mummified Buddha statue reappeared at an art exhibition in Europe last year and was found to belong to an art collector from the Netherlands.
To begin with, the Dutch collector expressed willingness to cede the relic, but later changed positions and rejected negotiations.
The statue is the mummified body of a well-known local monk who dedicated his whole life to helping people with sickness and promoting Buddhist belief.
