Fans of Guo'an, Beijing's local football team, cheer for the team on April 21, 2015. (File photo/Xinhua)
(ECNS) -- The Beijing government will send officials to football games to ensure fans are behaving themselves.
The local civilization office will send personnel to football games when Guo'an, Beijing's local football team, is playing. The government wants less bad language and throwing of trash from fans at such matches.
Fans were offered trash bags on Saturday as Beijing played in Jiangsu province. Hopefully, football lovers will place their rubbish in these bags and behave in a more civilized manner in general, said the local civilization office director.
Beijing's football fans are becoming younger overall and can behave irrationally at times, says Zhang Yue, the head of Guo'an's cheerleading team, who thinks football fan associations should guide members to behave more appropriately.
A fan named Kang Ning also expressed willingness to embrace a more polite manner while supporting games.
It is reported that 80 percent of Beijing football fans voluntarily remove trash after a game.
