Right before the CSL Round 30 Beijing-Shanghai derby between Shenhua and Guoan last week, my Shanghai flatmate in Buenos Aires was going crazy. He searched for half an hour, only to find either low-quality Spanish commentary streams on YouTube that couldn't tell Yu Hanchao apart from Zhang Yuning, or geo-restriction prompts when he tried to access domestic streaming platforms. The Migu membership he paid for back in China was completely useless overseas, not to mention finding the familiar Chinese commentary he was used to.
I've run into this issue countless times in the 3 years I've lived in Argentina, especially for high-profile CSL matches. Foreign commentators have no idea about the 30-year rivalry between the two teams, they don't even know what the \
