Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Football and esports used to live in entirely separate worlds, but not anymore. Online gaming is starting to be taken increasingly seriously by fans, and global sport governing institutions, as CGTN’s correspondent Alasdair Baverstock found out.

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