When I Saw My Cousin’s U17 World Cup Celebration Post, I Realized Why Overseas Chinese Can’t Stream It Live

I was scrolling through Weibo during my lunch break at a bubble tea shop in Toronto when my cousin’s post stopped me cold: a pixelated screenshot of the U17 Women’s World Cup match, captioned ‘4-0!!! Historic!!!’ with three crying-laughing emojis. The video thumbnail showed Chinese players hugging under stadium lights, but when I tapped it, all I got was a buffering circle and the dreaded ‘This content is not available in your region’ message.

My cousin—a high schooler in Guangzhou—had drawn little soccer balls next to the score in her digital journal. Underneath, she’d scribbled ‘Mom said if I stay up past midnight watching replays, she’ll change the Wi-Fi password.’ That hit me. I remembered my own teenage years, when my dad would unplug the router during exam season, and I’d secretly use mobile data to catch highlights of Li Na’s tennis matches.

The stats hit differently when it’s personal: according to FIFA’s 2024 report, China’s U17 squad had never advanced past the group stage before this year. But here they were, beating Ecuador 4-0 with a midfielder from my cousin’s province scoring twice. She later voice-messaged me, ‘Jie, the goalkeeper’s gloves were covered in mud—she dove like three times in the last minute!’ I could almost hear the crowd roaring through her staticky audio.

It’s funny how memories warp. When I left for college abroad, streaming Chinese shows was easy. Now? My aunt in Vancouver complains she can’t even watch her favorite cooking show without a VPN. Last Lunar New Year, we tried to screen-share the Spring Festival Gala for our family Zoom call, but the lag was so bad my grandma’s firecracker reactions came five seconds after the actual explosions on screen.

When I Saw My Cousin's U17 World Cup Celebration Post, I Realized Why Overseas Chinese Can't Stream It Live

Maybe it’s selfish, but watching my cousin’s grainy replays made me miss the smell of night-market skewers and the way uncles in my hometown would crowd around TVs during major matches. Now we’re all scattered—Melbourne, Berlin, Boston—refreshing Weibo feeds while praying one friend back home will screen-record the full game for us.

After I posted this, my cousin sent a voice note: ‘If you’d been here, we could’ve bought those awful neon soccer scarves from the street vendor.’ I replied with a crying-laughing emoji. How about you? What’s the one show or game you wish you could stream without hitting a geo-block?

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