The meeting of table tennis players between the United States and People’s Republic of China, gone down into history as Ping Pong Diplomacy, is one of the most renowned episodes of distension in the Cold War period. However, a less famous but as much as conducive episode took place in Viareggio.
It was November 1977 when CGC announced the participation of a Beijing-based team in the following edition of the prestigious Coppa Carnevale international youth football tournament. It was a real masterstroke, as no Chinese club had ever set foot on the European soil before.
