The Chinese men’s national soccer team is training in Shanghai on the 21st, the stadium advertising sponsorship has a clear Nike (NIKE) logo, the players’ jerseys are also Nike.
The European and American brands refuse to use Xinjiang cotton to trigger China’s anti-boycott storm continues to expand, according to “Football News” reported that the Chinese Football Association held an emergency internal meeting, the largest sponsor of the Chinese football Nike (NIKE) company expressed condemnation.
According to the report, both the Chinese Super League and the national team have a long-term business relationship with Nike. Among them, Nike signed a 10-year contract with CSL in 2009 and renewed it with CSL for another 10 years in 2018. According to the point of Time, the contract between CSL and Nike expires in 2028. In addition, China’s national men’s soccer team “China Team” signed a 12-year RMB 1 billion contract with Nike in 2015, and according to the time plan, the national team’s contract will last until the end of 2026.
Since the outbreak of the Xinjiang cotton incident, the CFA and professional league preparatory group is highly concerned, and urgently held an internal meeting on the matter, the Nike company “in the cotton material selection of wrongdoing” expressed condemnation, the CFA and professional league preparatory group said, will retain the right to further deal with the Nike contract.
The report said that in addition to the actions of the CFA and the preparatory group of the professional league, many clubs in the Chinese Super League have taken practical action to boycott Nike, for example, Shenhua, Seaport and Shenzhen Football Club have erased the Nike logo from their external publicity.
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