Emanuel Leite Junior Author

Emanuel Leite Junior is Associate Researcher at the International Football College at Tongji University, China. He was previously Researcher at the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. His research is focused on the political economy, and geopolitical implications of football in China. He has written on the history of football in the Soviet Union and on broadcasting rights in Brazilian football.

Carlos Rodrigues is Associate Professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. His research focuses on territorial innovation systems, particularly on the role science, technology and innovation policy and practice play in systemic, territorially-based development processes, and Asian studies, particularly in the domains of EU-China relations, and sports, power and development.