SAO PAULO/MACAU -- The Brazilian city of Porto Feliz, around an hour's drive from Sao Paulo, has one of Brazil's largest soccer training centers. Honduras used the facility, built on a 156,000-sq.-meter site and equipped with five pitches, for training during the World Cup.
In April, well before the World Cup, a group of Chinese visited the center, posing for photos on one of the pitches and holding their national flag. They were officials of Shandong Luneng Taishan, a professional soccer club that had recently bought the training center.
