Mr Xu's EverGrande FC winning the Asian Champions League 2013
The "dream-team" which might see fruition around the time of the fast-approaching Chinese New Year in January 31st, is a combination of three players who all have played under the IG banner (Hao, Faith and XIao8), solo-mid player Pan "Mu" Zhang from TongFu and Chuan "ChuaN" Wong, who returns to the scene after dropping a hint around New Year. .
Xi Hao's father Xu Jia Yin, has proved already with his Guangzhou-based football team, that he will go to any length to ensure success and with money no object, they would be free to pick-and-choose their roster. The team will apparently be a gift to his son, Xu Xi Hao, who chose the players himself. In China Xu Xi Hao would be referred to as "fu er dai", meaning a child of first generation wealthy parents who lives off their wealth.
Owner of WanDa was behind the IG that won TI2
It is not the first time a father has taken an interest in a DOTA team for his son. In 2011, IG was formed by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, the richest man in China who gathered his wealth through WanDa. WanDa like HengDa is a real-estate company but is more well known for their nation-wide chain of shopping malls. At the time the owners of IG set up two dota teams, IG.Z (Zhou,sansheng,430, faith ,awoke) and IG.Y (YYF,830,Chuan,CH, Lamn)) and then let them compete against each other, with the most successful being chosen and the others being dropped. The method proved extremely successful as the survivors became the line-up that went onto win TI2.
The roster for the rumoured new team which may be named EverGrande after the English translation of HengDa is as follows:
Zhi Hao "Hao" Chen Da "Faith" Zeng Pan "Mu" Zhang
Hock Chuan "ChuaN" Wong Ning "Xiao8" ZhangWhat would be your Chinese dream-team?
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