The Historic 1976 UCD Football Tour: First Western European Team to Play in China
50 Years Later: How a College Soccer Team Wrote Ireland-China Sports History By Daniel Richardson, Editor-in-Chief BEIJING — April 28, 2026 The 1976 UCD Soccer Club team in China, the first Western football squad to visit the People’s Republic since its founding in 1949. (Photo: Irish Times) Fifty years ago, a group of Irish college … Read more