Women's World Cup Valuable Experience for China: Official

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Women's World Cup Valuable Experience for China: Official

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A top Chinese soccer official said Wednesday that experience obtained from the two-year-long preparations for the women's World Cup is valuable for China, although the event was eventually moved out of the country due to concerns on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic.

"Although the World Cup Organizing Committee failed to bring a satisfactory closure to their efforts, it has accomplished its historic mission," said Zhang Jilong, vice-president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA). "What we'd experienced during the past two years will do much good to China. It has enabled us to know much more about the rest of the world and vice versa," he said.

The CFA official made these comments at an occasion when he declared the Organizing Committee had been disbanded.

China being honored to hosting the World Cup fully demonstrated China's international status that has been significantly increased during the last decades and FIFA's trust on China's capability of organizing major international events, said Li Xiaoguang, another ranking CFA official.

"The efforts we have made would undoubtedly help the development of women's soccer in China and further consolidate our position in international arena," he added.

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