I was scrolling through my phone during my lunch break at the local Chinese restaurant where I work in Toronto when I saw the score – China U17 8-0 Sri Lanka. The notification popped up just as I was wiping down a sticky table that still smelled of sweet and sour sauce.
That scoreline hit me like a wave of nostalgia. Suddenly I was 16 again, back on the dusty field behind my high school in Guangzhou, where we’d play until the streetlights came on. I can still feel the rough texture of that cheap soccer ball against my bare feet, and hear Coach Li yelling ‘Move! Move! Move!’ in that gravelly voice of his.
The article mentioned Wan Xiang coming off the bench to score twice. It reminded me of this kid from my old team – Xiao Wang – who always started on the bench but had this incredible instinct for being in the right place at the right time. He’d come on in the second half, when everyone else was tired, and just… find the net. Like magic.
Here’s the thing that got me emotional though – according to the match report, six different players scored for China. Six. That’s not just one star player carrying the team. That’s a proper team effort. It made me think about how far Chinese football has come since my playing days, when we’d mostly rely on one or two skilled players to bail us out.
I tried to watch the highlights later that evening, curled up on my couch with a cup of tea that had gone cold. But of course, the video on CCTV Sports was geo-blocked. That familiar ‘This content is not available in your region’ message flashed up, and I just sighed. It’s the same story every time – whether it’s sports, movies, or variety shows from back home.
My roommate walked in just then, saw my frustrated face, and asked what was wrong. ‘Trying to watch the U17 game,’ I told him. He just nodded knowingly. ‘The overseas Chinese struggle is real,’ he said, before telling me about how he missed his favorite cooking show last week for the same reason.
You know what’s funny? Even with all these streaming restrictions, the news of that 8-0 victory still found its way to me across the ocean. It made me realize that no matter how far we travel, that connection to home – to the sports teams we grew up cheering for, to the cultural touchstones that shaped us – never really goes away.
So to all my fellow overseas Chinese trying to catch up with content from back home – I feel you. That frustration when you can’t watch the big game or your favorite drama? It’s like being homesick for your own culture. But hey, at least we can still celebrate these victories together, even if we have to read about them instead of watching them live.
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