Xinhua Headlines: Final whistle: China's amateur league scores wonder goal for grassroots sports

by sportswriters He Leijing and Chen Shengwei

NANJING, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- When more than 60,000 fans erupted into cheers at Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, the roar felt global -- the kind associated with a World Cup or Champions League match.

But this was neither. It wasn't even the professional Chinese Super League. It was the climax of the Su Super League, an amateur competition from east China's Jiangs