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2009 Lunar New Year Cup
The 2009 Lunar New Year Cup is a football tournament held in Hong Kong on the first and fourth day of the Chinese New Year of the Earth Ox Year (26 January and 29 January 2009). Format The two semi-finals for the four participating teams will be held on the first day of the Chinese New Year of Ox (26 January 2009). The winning teams will enter the final and the losing teams play the third-place playoff (Both matches on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, i.e. 29 January.) Draw in the semi-finals and third-place playoff would be settled by penalty shootout directly, that means no extra time would be played. For the final, a thirty-minute extra time would be played after a draw. A further draw would lead to the penalty shootout. Participating teams * Hong Kong League Selection (host) * South China Pegasus Team * Sparta Prague * Suwon Samsung Bluewings Squads Hong Kong League Selection * Team Managers: Leung Hung Tak, Pui Kwan Kay, Ng Kin * Coaches: Julio Moreno ...
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Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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Julio César Moreno
Julio César Moreno Yáñez (born 27 September 1969) is a Football Manager. Career As a young football player, Moreno was with Universidad Católica, until he was invited to play outside Chile by his friends. So, he played football in Indonesia for Arema Malang, where he coincided with his compatriots Nelson León Sánchez and Juan Rodríguez Rubio, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Once in Sydney, he studied football analytics at university level, where he met Bora Milutinović. He is the former assistant coach of Iraq national football team, previously he was the head coach of Hong Kong First Division League side Kitchee. He is former's assistant of Bora Milutinović. He follows Milutinović to Iraq national football team in May 2009 until June 2009. Moreno has been comparts with Milutinovic in 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. In the winter of 2010, he was recruited as a coach by Serbia's national team coach Radomir Antić, with whom he has been helping plan out strategies ...
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Festus Baise
Festus Baise (; born 11 April 1980) is a former Nigerian-born Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a centre back. Club career Early career Festus Baise was born in Lagos, Nigeria and was advised to go to Hong Kong and have tryouts with top tier clubs Happy Valley and Sun Hei. He would receive an offer from second tier club Mutual where he started his football career in the 2004–05 league season. Baise would join top tier club South China half way through the season and played in six games, scoring one goal. Citizen On 16 December 2011, Baise scored an own goal, described as a reverse scorpion kick, past his goalkeeper Tse Tak Him in a 3–2 win over Sun Hei in the league match. It was selected as the 5th best own goal of all time by the Daily Telegraph's Steve Wilson. On 21 March 2012, Baise struck a last-minute winner as Citizen edged out Myanmar's Yangon United 2–1 at Mongkok Stadium to record a first win of the 2012 AFC Cup campaign in Group G. Gu ...
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Joel Bertoti Padilha
Joel Bertoti Padilha ( ''Joel''; born July 24, 1980 in Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), more commonly known as Joel, is a Brazilian football defender who last played for Rangers in the Hong Kong First Division League. Career Wofoo Tai Po (2006–2009) Joel joined Wofoo Tai Po (Tai Po FC) in September 2006. He established himself as an important first team player immediately and scored a debut goal(The first home game of Wofoo Tai Po, against South China). He became an immediate solution of the team's weakness in defending header and also added a lot of quality in attacking. Besides his passing and run from deep position ability, Joel's attacking header and free kick skills made him the top scorer of the team with 6 goals in 2006/2007, along with striker Christian Annan. Joel changed his jersey number from 28 to 6 in season 2007/2008, which he scored 7 times and became the third top scorer in the team, and the top scoring defender among the Hong Kong First Division L ...
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Landon Ling
Landon Lloyd Ling (; born 8 October 1987) is a Canadian former professional footballer of Hong Kong origin. He played as a left-back or a left winger. He also works in Canada as a singer, songwriter and music producer under the name of "Landon L". Club career Ling began his football career at Vancouver with Whitecaps FC Prospects. In 2002, he attended the Blackburn Rovers youth academy. He later moved to the Czech Republic in 2006 where he signed a contract with Jablonec 97.林家亮化身音樂唱作人
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Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Limited, also known as Eastern Sports Club (), is a Hong Kong professional sports club whose association football, football section competes in the Hong Kong Premier League, the top flight of Football in Hong Kong, Hong Kong football. The association football, football team is known as Eastern Football Team () (currently known for sponsorship reasons as Eastern Long Lions Football Team () and plays in the Hong Kong Premier League. In 2017, Eastern became the first club from Hong Kong to compete in the group stage of AFC Champions League. History Early history In 1925, a group of workers from the in Central (Hong Kong), Central formed the Chinese Football team. Two years later in 1927, the club changed its name to the Eastern Athletic Association, establishing itself as an all Chinese football club, and entered the Hong Kong Second Division League, Hong Kong Second Division. During the 1931–32 season, Eastern initially won the ri ...
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Djair Baptista Machado
Djair Baptista Machado known as Djair (or Machado in Hong Kong) (born 24 December 1976) is a former Brazilian footballer. His given name also misspelled as Dejair. Biography Born in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Djair started his career at Grêmio. In 2000, he left for Juventude and played once in 2000 Copa do Brasil. He played a half season in Portugal for Belenenses in 2001, and left the club in mid of 2001–02 Primeira Liga. In 2003, he left for Israeli side Hapoel Kfar Saba from RS Futebol Clube. São Raimundo In 2005, he left for São Raimundo (AM), signed a contract until the end of 2005 Campeonato Amazonense. He extended his contract until September in May, for 2005 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B. He played 19 matches in Série B, only missed round 9 and round 19. After Série B had ended, he was signed by city rival Nacional (AM) for 2005 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C in September, which the team finished as the losing quarter-finalists. In December 20 ...
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Luciano Quadros Da Silva
Luciano Quadros da Silva ( ''Luciano Quadros'', born April 10, 1974 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), simply known as Luciano Quadros, is a Brazilian football manager and former football goalkeeper. He is the head coach of Campeonato Carioca The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Port., Rio de Janeiro State Championship), was started in 1906 and is the annual football championship in the state of Rio de Janeiro, B ... club Cabofriense. Career statistics References 1974 births Living people Footballers from Porto Alegre Brazilian footballers Brazilian football managers Brazil international footballers Brazilian expatriate footballers Association football goalkeepers Expatriate footballers in Hong Kong Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players Hong Kong ...
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Convoy Sun Hei
Sun Hei Sports Club () is a Hong Kong football club which currently competes in the Hong Kong Third Division. The club has a long history in playing in the top flight, but decided to self-relegate in the 2013–14 season after declining to participate in the newly established Hong Kong Premier League. History Sun Hei entered the Hong Kong First Division under the name Golden () in the 1994–95 season. In 1996, Golden under the name Golden XI played against England. England was in Hong Kong preparing for the UEFA Euro 1996 later in the summer. It was in Hong Kong that Paul Gascoigne's famous dentist chair incident took place. After securing the sponsorship of Xiangxue Pharmaceutical, the club competed in the league under the team name Xiangxue Sun Hei () from 2005–07. In the season 2004–05, Sun Hei achieved The Quadruple, winning all four senior football competitions, including the Hong Kong First Division League, the Senior Shield, the League Cup and the FA Cup. In the ...
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Wei Zhao (footballer)
Wei Zhao (; born 29 August 1983) is a former Chinese-born Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. International career On 3 June 2011, Wei won his first and only cap for the Hong Kong in an international friendly match against Malaysia, where he conceded the equalizer from Abdul Hadi Yahya Abdul Hadi Bin Yahya (born 6 March 1985 in Klang, Selangor) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a forward. He is well known for his prolific goalscoring ability which he shown continuously in the domestic league. He previousl ... in the 66th minute of the game, which ended in a 1–1 draw. References External linksPlayer profileat Sodasoccer.com 1983 births Living people Chinese men's footballers Chinese expatriate men's footballers Hong Kong men's footballers Hong Kong men's international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Footballers from Tianjin Hong Kong First Division League players Guangzhou F.C. players Sout ...
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Vianney Selin
Vianney may refer to: Persons Surname * John Vianney (1786–1859), French parish priest who is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and as the patron saint of all priests. Because of his fame, his name has been given to several places in Quebec, and his surname has become a French first name. Given name * Vianney (singer), French singer-songwriter * Vianney Décarie, Canadian philosopher * Vyanney Guyonnet, member of the French super vocal group Les Stentors * Vianney Mabidé (born 1988), Central African football (soccer) player Places * Vianney, Quebec, a former municipality that merged into Saint-Ferdinand, Quebec in 2000 * Saint-Vianney, Quebec, municipality in Quebec, Canada * Saint-Jean-Vianney, former village in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, now abandoned after it was partially destroyed in a landslide in 1971 Other uses * ''Vianney'' (album) See * Vianne {{disambiguation, surname, geo French masculine given names ...
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