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Eurosport Championship - 'Great Brawler' in more trouble
One of the players involved in the 'Great Brawl of China' with Queen's Park Rangers has run into more disciplinary trouble.
The Chinese Olympic team were involved in a spectacular mass fight during a 'friendly' against QPR this February.
Seven China players were sent home after violence erupted, with punches and kung-fu kicks exchanged between the opposing teams.
Now Dai Lin, who played in that match, has been suspended for posing a "lewd question" to an army officer during a military-style boot camp.
The 19-year-old and team-mate Jiang Chen asked the officer whether he had ever slept with a prostitute and now the pair face an indefinite spell on the sidelines.
The boot camp was held for both Olympic and national team players in the country's north-eastern Hebei province for the purpose of "educating the players on thoughts and behaviour."
The players were trained to stand to attention, march, run in formation and salute.
The Olympic team has been dogged by disciplinary problems. Shandong Luneng's Lu Zheng was booted off the team in July for almost coming to blows with an assistant coach, and Cui Peng was suspended for playing computer games all night during last year's Asian Games in Doha. Eurosport
Reuters - China suspend two players for lewd question
BEIJING, Oct 11 (Reuters) - China has suspended two members of its Olympic soccer squad for posing a 'lewd question' to an army officer during a military-style boot camp, the Soccer News paper reported on Thursday.
Dai Lin, 19, and Jiang Chen, 21, were banned for asking the officer during a group discussion whether he had ever been with a prostitute. It was not clear how long the suspension would last.
Dai was involved in a brawl with Queens Park Rangers players during the Olympic squad's tour of England this year which resulted in seven Chinese players being sent home.
He and Jiang are the latest players to be punished by China's Olympic team for breaches of discipline.
Shandong Luneng's Lu Zheng was booted off the team in July for almost coming to blows with an assistant coach, and Cui Peng was suspended for playing computer games all night during last year's Asian Games in Doha.
The boot camp was held for both Olympic and national team players in the country's northeastern Hebei province for the purpose of 'educating the players on thoughts and behaviour.'
The players were trained to stand to attention, march, run in formation and salute.
Pictures in local newspapers showed ranks of khaki-clad players sporting crew cuts before 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Myanmar on Oct. 21 and 28.
'We should bring the army's excellent habits into future training and competition and make the army's spirit the national team's soul,' the First newspaper quoted Chinese FA vice director Nan Yong as saying. Reuters