Taiwanese players who have played in Europe

Introduction Although football is followed in Taiwan, with the Premier League, the Champions League and tournaments like the World Cup attracting a regular audience, it is still something of a backwater sport, and their league does not have the status of other East Asian countries like Japan or South Korea. The Taiwanese league does not rank among the top football leagues in Asia. Baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, cycling and even taekwondo all rank above it in terms of popularity, whilst the sport suffers from a lack of funding, poor amenities and infrastructure at grassroots level, and an absence of role…