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After euphoria, numbing despair: Villa’s new owner is as shady as they come

Related Topics: Euphoria, China, Aston Villa F.C.

After a sorry season, Aston Villa fans found a reason to rejoice as the club got a new owner, Chinese businessman Dr. Tony Xia.

His dad was an agricultural technician and his mother was a housewife. Having been academically talented, “Xia Jiantong”, moved to the United States to study at Harvard and MIT, and has took a five-month exchange at Oxford University.

Xia is now the CEO of Recon Group, the China-based multinational holding company that owns the Midlanders now. Xia became boss of the organization back in 2004, as he struck rich in the urban development industry.