China could lift the World Cup within a decade, former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson has claimed, as Xi Jinping pushes on with his football revolution.

前英格兰主教练斯文·戈兰·埃里克森声称,中国会在10年内赢得世界杯,因为习近平正在推行他的足球革命。

The Chinese president, lionised by Communist party spin doctors as a die-hard football fan, has vowed to turn China into a footballing superpower as well as an economic one. 

这位被中国媒体奉为铁杆足球迷的中国国家主席,发誓要将中国变成像中国经济那样的足球强国。