Fan Zhiyi starts for a poor performing China Side

By James Hegarty
June 4 2002

Fan Zhiyi started against a good performance from a Costa Rican side but Fan couldn't help China win after losing 2-0 to the Costa Rica side but it was still great to here the commentator mentioning that he was a Dundee Player.

Fan Zhiyi Starts

Dundee defender Fan Zhiyi couldn't help China from defeat as China fell to a 2-0 defeat from Costa Rica.

Fan was substituted after 73 minutes after having a quite good game he was replace by Yu Genwei.

China had a few good chances but most of the chances fell to a good Costa Rican side.

China have to play a Brazil team who could be missing Rivaldo from Suspension this Saturday at 12:30 BST.

There was a big crowd at the game today with the interest in China so suspect an even bigger turnout this Saturday for the game against Brazil.

Brazil being the biggest Country for football and arguably one of the best countries for football while China has the biggest fan base for football in the world with this showing from the huge growing interest in Dundee since Fan Zhiyi joined.

Though most people would bet against China winning there could be an upset on the cards and I would bet on Fan Zhiyi scoring since he likes scoring against big sides like he did at Park Head.

My Prediction:

Brazil 2 - China 1