As football is widely followed in China， triumph by the national team is considered to be a source of national Around 300 million people tuned in to broadcasts of China's World Cup 2002 matches with a staggering 170 million new television sets being bought by citizens in order to watch their nation's first World Cup There were over 250 million viewers for the Asian Cup 2004 finals， the largest single-event sports audience in the country's [1] The team is colloquially referred to as Team China (中国队)， the National Team (国家队) or Guozu (国足， "national foot")
