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		<title>Chinese Arena Football League Coming Soon</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Aug. 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Ganlan Media International, a sports development company based in Beijing, announces that it has received the exclusive rights from the Arena Football League to establish a China-based professional American arena football league. As owners of Ganlan Media International, Martin E. Judge, Jr., CEO and founder of [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mockdrafthq.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sony-A100-arena-football.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3891" title="Sony A100 arena football" src="http://www.mockdrafthq.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sony-A100-arena-football-150x148.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="148" /></a>WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Aug. 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Ganlan Media<br />
International, a sports development company based in Beijing, announces<br />
that it has received the exclusive rights from the Arena Football<br />
League to establish a China-based professional American arena football<br />
league.</p>
<p>As owners of Ganlan Media International, Martin E. Judge, Jr., CEO and<br />
founder of The Judge Group, and Ron Jaworski, ESPN Analyst and NFL Pro<br />
Bowl quarterback, will spearhead the project. Both businessmen are also<br />
owners of The Philadelphia Soul, the 2012 Eastern Divisional Champions<br />
of the Arena Football League.<span id="more-3889"></span></p>
<p>Jaworski traveled to Beijing this week to join Judge and Gary Morris,<br />
president of The Judge Group, to meet with Chinese officials and the<br />
Government to receive their approval and support for bringing American<br />
football to China. Afterward, they hosted press conferences, which were<br />
attended by the three leading news organizations in China to announce<br />
that &#8220;Professional American Football is coming to China.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re coming to a country that doesn&#8217;t know much about what American<br />
football is, but China is a country that loves sports,&#8221; Jaworski said.<br />
&#8220;They will pick up on football very quickly. I watched the Olympics<br />
this summer and watched their weightlifters, and I think I&#8217;d like to<br />
have some of those guys on my offensive line.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have been doing business in China since 2008,&#8221; said Judge. &#8220;In 2010,<br />
Ron and I were discussing his ventures to take football to India.<br />
During this conversation, we discussed that China would also be a great<br />
country in which to expand the international sport of professional<br />
football. We then began discussions with Jerry Kurz, Commissioner of<br />
the AFL, to obtain their exclusive rights to the game in China.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We are excited and extremely motivated to support Marty, Ron and Gary,<br />
along with their Chinese partners, in any way we can to extend our<br />
great game to China,&#8221; said Kurz. &#8220;We just celebrated our 25th season,<br />
which is very exciting to all of us within the AFL. Bringing our game<br />
to China, and in the future to many more countries, is a great way to<br />
add to our celebration.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jaworski has teamed with Judge as part of the ownership group in China.<br />
An NFL star himself, Jaworski has been an energetic owner and proponent<br />
of the indoor game since the Philadelphia Soul launched in 2003.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am impressed with the passion I see here in China and all over the<br />
world for our game,&#8221; said Jaworski. &#8220;It won&#8217;t be easy, but with Marty&#8217;s<br />
leadership, Gary&#8217;s presence in China, the support of the Chinese<br />
officials and government, the exclusive backing of the AFL, and<br />
personal friends like my old coach Dick Vermeil behind us, I know we<br />
have the perfect team to make this work.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have learned many things about the Chinese culture and its people&#8217;s<br />
passion for sports over the last four years living and working in<br />
China,&#8221; said Morris. &#8220;Through extensive communications over the last<br />
several years with our commercial and government relationships in<br />
China, I have found that they feel very strongly that professional<br />
American arena football will be successful because it&#8217;s a high-energy,<br />
high-scoring game played very close to the fans. It can be played in<br />
the many indoor stadium venues that already exist in China, which makes<br />
it a natural fit.&#8221;</p>
<p>For the inaugural season, Ganlan Media International projects a<br />
six-team model, playing a 10-game schedule in the fall/winter of 2014.<br />
Since the AFL plays a spring/summer schedule, a fall/winter schedule in<br />
China will allow managers, coaches, players and referees from the<br />
United States the ability to help the Chinese league train and develop<br />
over the next few years as it expands to multiple cities throughout<br />
China. Ganlan Media International is planning to have three exhibition<br />
games in 2013 in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.</p>
<p>For more information on Ganlan Media International, please call<br />
800-471-3460.</p>
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