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Alibaba to donate $145m to women’s football


05 July 2019  

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Alibaba is planning to contribute $145 million donation to the Chinese women’s football squad. China’s second richest man Jack Ma announced Friday, who despite underfunding routinely outperform the men’s national team.

The one billion yuan ($145 million) donation from Ma — the founder of online shopping giant Alibaba — and two other charitable foundations will be spread over the coming decade.

It will contribute to “injury prevention and treatment, the career development of retired footballers, technical development and coach education, and youth development,” a joint statement said.

China made the Women’s World Cup — now under way in France — for the seventh time in eight editions, and boasts a record that the men’s team can only envy. (Agencies)

But the women’s side does more with far less support, and professional women’s football in China gets little notice and plays to meagre attendances.

The team put in a respectable showing in France, going out in the round of 16.

Alipay, the charitable foundation of Alibaba, will fund “the bulk” of the initiative, Friday’s announcement said.

The rest comes from separate foundations established by Ma, and executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai.

The three parties aim to make soccer “more sustainable and accessible to girls and women across the nation”.

Cai Yong, an executive committee member of the Chinese Football Association, called the gift “unprecedented”, according to the statement.

Alibaba is a minority stakeholder in perennial power Guangzhou Evergrande of the men’s Chinese Super League.

Publish Date : 05 July 2019 18:56 PM

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