Diet change for 'fat' China footballers as Spaniards take charge

Beijing

CHINESE investors have spent millions acquiring storied European football clubs such as AC Milan, Inter Milan and Aston Villa. But when Europeans finally took a stake in a Chinese club they aimed lower. Much lower.

A group of Spanish investors, including the former president of Barcelona, recently bought into the team of the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), making them the first Chinese club with foreign investors.

The team are languishing in the third division, and when the Spaniards arrived they found overweight players who had the habit of eating sweets during games.

The Spa…