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2010 Lunar New Year Cup
The 2010 Lunar New Year Cup is a football tournament held in Hong Kong on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger (18 January 2010). Format The teams play against each other in 45-minute matches like TIM Trophy, but if the matches are goalless the matches are not decided by penalty shoot-outs. Participating teams * Kitchee (host) * Pohang Steelers * Pegasus Invitation Team Squads Kitchee * Head coach: Josep Gombau * Coach: Cheng Siu Chung * Executive Officer: Alex Chu Chi Kwong * Manager: Ken Ng Pohang Steelers * Head coach: Waldemar Lemos * Coach: Choi Moon-sik * Interpreter: Na Young-joon * Trainer: An Sung-hoon * Manager: Shin Joo-hyun FC Pohang SteelersTeam List Pegasus Invitation Team Fixtures [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Ka Chun
Li Ka Chun (; born 10 September 1993), nicknamed Lali, is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays for Hong Kong First Division club Metro Gallery. Club career Born in Hong Kong during British reign, Li was spotted by Kitchee as a 13 year old during a youth football development programme he was attending during the summer. He progressed well through the youth ranks, earning places in the Hong Kong national youth setup, and a trial with then-Premier League side Birmingham City in 2010. In July of the same year, along with fellow Kitchee teammate Ngan Lok Fung, he traveled to Spain to participate in youth training events organised by Tercera División side CF Amposta, the former club of his then-manager, Josep Gombau. In June 2011, he was loaned to Pegasus (at the time known as TSW Pegasus FC), who were also competing in the First Division, the top level of football in Hong Kong before the introduction of the Premier League in 2014. In October 2011, he sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Akande
Alexander Oluwatayo Akande (; born 9 February 1989), more commonly known as Alex Akande or Alex Tayo Akande, is a professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for China League One club Shanghai Jiading Huilong. Born in Nigeria, he represents Hong Kong at international level. Club career Advance Tai Chung and Eastern Akande arrived in Hong Kong in 2008 and played for Tai Chung in the Hong Kong second division league. His prolific performance soon drew interest of first division side Eastern. Akande joined Eastern in January 2009 and finished the season with 6 goals. Tai Chung and Kitchee Akande returned to Tai Chung in season 2009-10. After scoring 3 goals in 12 matches for Tai Chung in half a season, he joined Kitchee in mid-season following the departure of Kitchee's Spanish striking duo Albert Virgili Fort and Raul Torres. The transfer also gave Akande an opportunity to play the 2010 Lunar New Year Cup as he played for Kitchee against Pegasus Invitatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
