{"id":16885,"date":"2016-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/port-adelaide-confirms-afl-s-first-china-game\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"port-adelaide-confirms-afl-s-first-china-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-adelaide-confirms-afl-s-first-china-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide confirms AFL\u2019s first China game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portadelaidefc.com.au\/news\/2016-10-26\/port-adelaide-to-play-in-shanghai-next-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PAFC<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3>Port Adelaide chairman David Koch announced on Wednesday his club would host the AFL\u2019s first premiership season game in Shanghai in 2017.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/kochie-confident-port-s-china-game-is-a-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kochie hinted on Tuesday\u2019s FIVEAA breakfast show the game would happen\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a moment many people thought would never happen, let alone as soon as 2017,\u201d said Kochie said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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\u2019s sporting, cultural, political, economic and tourism ties with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe appetite for AFL football in China is even stronger than we could have imagined when Port Adelaide began forging relationships there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portadelaidefc.com.au\/news\/2016-10-26\/port-adelaide-to-play-in-shanghai-next-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to portadelaidefc.com.au<\/a>, the Power will travel to Shanghai\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/cornesy-quits-fighting-the-good-fight\"><strong>GRAHAM CORNES GIVES UP FIGHTING THE \u201cGOOD\u201d FIGHT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/kochie-confident-port-s-china-game-is-a-go\"><strong>KOCHIE \u201cVERY CONFIDENT\u201d PORT\u2019S CHINA GAME IS A GO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | PAFC Port Adelaide chairman David Koch announced on Wednesday his club would host the AFL\u2019s first premiership season game in Shanghai in 2017. Kochie hinted on Tuesday\u2019s FIVEAA breakfast show the game would happen\u2026 \u201cThis is a moment many people thought would never happen, let alone as soon as 2017,\u201d said Kochie said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Port Adelaide confirms AFL\u2019s first China game - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-adelaide-confirms-afl-s-first-china-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Port Adelaide confirms AFL\u2019s first China game\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image | PAFC Port Adelaide chairman David Koch announced on Wednesday his club would host the AFL\u2019s first premiership season game in Shanghai in 2017. 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