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Workers' Stadium (1959), home
ground of Beijing Guoan Football Club, in China,
featured in 1 episode of DT in Season 7 in 2003.
For two years between
2003-05, Beijing Guoan was known as
"Beijing Hyundai", due to being sponsored by Beijing Hyundai Motor
Company, returning to their original name at the end of the deal.
Meeting with Dream Inc.
representative Mr
Lau at the company's headquarters in China,
Harchester chief exec Pilar Hernandez is taken to watch Beijing Hyundai at
the Workers' Stadium. At a restaurant afterwards, Lal
discusses how the team's left-midfielder Zhao
Qiang would prove beneficial to Pilar's own team. Pilar makes
clear they would not have any money to buy a new player following the recent
purchase of Barcelona's Luke
Davenport broke the British transfer record, let alone one she felt
wouldn't be of the Premier League standard required. Lau explains Harchester wouldn't buy Zhao, but Dream Inc. would
'place' him there in a business deal that would boost the company's publicity
with the Chinese football fans, and provide Harchester
with much needed funds.
The sight of the Great Wall of China
certainly provides a follow-up to former chairman Phil
Wallis's statement the previous season, that if Harchester won the FA Cup every employee would be taken
on a trip to the Wall!
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