Chinese football fans react after the Chinese national soccer team being defeated by Syria in their Group A match during the 2018 FIFA World Cup WM Weltmeisterschaft Fussball Russia Asian Qualifiers in Xi an city, northwest China s Shaanxi province, 6 October 2016. Chinese sports fans have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the president of China s football association after the national side crashed to a shock defeat to Syria in a major blow to president Xi Jinping s football revolution. Forty-thousand fans had packed the Zhuque Stadium in the northern city of Xi¡¯an to see China, ranked 78th in the world by Fifa, take on Syria, a footballing minnow ranked 114th, just ahead of Turkmenistan, Lithuania, Palestine and North Korea. In the second half Team China was stunned by a goal from Mahmoud Al-Mawas, meaning China s chances of qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia were now slim . The Tencent Sports website said large groups of disgruntled fans gathered outside the stadium following the game to demand that the president of the Chinese Football Association, Cai Zhenhua, be axed. Cai Zhenhua, resign! they chanted, according to video of the demonstration. Anger on streets in China as football team suffer shock defeat by war-torn Syria 20161007_28434

Chinese football fans react after the Chinese national soccer team being defeated by Syria in their Group A match during the 2018 FIFA World Cup WM Weltmeisterschaft Fussball Russia Asian Qualifiers in Xi an city, northwest China s Shaanxi province, 6 October 2016. Chinese sports fans have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the president of China s football association after the national side crashed to a shock defeat to Syria in a major blow to president Xi Jinping s football revolution. Forty-thousand fans had packed the Zhuque Stadium in the northern city of Xi¡¯an to see China, ranked 78th in the world by Fifa, take on Syria, a footballing minnow ranked 114th, just ahead of Turkmenistan, Lithuania, Palestine and North Korea. In the second half Team China was stunned by a goal from Mahmoud Al-Mawas, meaning China s chances of qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia were now slim . The Tencent Sports website said large groups of disgruntled fans gathered outside the stadium following the game to demand that the president of the Chinese Football Association, Cai Zhenhua, be axed. Cai Zhenhua, resign! they chanted, according to video of the demonstration. Anger on streets in China as football team suffer shock defeat by war-torn Syria 20161007_28434