article_snippet: Football-mad president Xi Jinping has already made the sport a compulsory part of the national curriculum for schoolchildren, with the aim of turning Football-mad president Xi Jinping country into a football powerhouse.
article_snippet: Football-mad president Xi Jinping kicks a football during a 2012 visit to Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, when Football-mad president Xi Jinping was China's vice president.
article_snippet: Football-mad president Xi Jinping wants to make set his country on the road to being world champions .
article_snippet: Football-mad president Xi Jinping has been a football fan since Football-mad president Xi Jinping played for Football-mad president Xi Jinping school team and is said to be very keen to see his country climb the world rankings .
article_snippet: President Xi wants China to qualify for a World Cup again, like China's men did in 2002, and eventually win the competition .
article_snippet: Mr Xi country will again qualify for a World Cup –
highlights_snippet: Xi Jinping wants to make country of 1.37billion into a football powerhouse .
  