China News Service, Meizhou, November 4: The Hong Kong star football team held a friendly match in Meizhou, Guangdong to remember the fate of football.
China News Service reporter Wang Jian
The Wuhua Huitang Stadium in Meizhou, the “Hakka Capital of the World”, was bustling with people on the night of the 3rd, and the fans cheered one after another. The atmosphere became more energetic when the Hong Kong star football team’s Eric Tsang scored a beautiful header in the first 3 minutes.
That night, a friendly match between the Hong Kong Star Football Team and the Wuhua Changle Football Team started at Huitang Stadium. The team consisting of Hong Kong stars such as Alan Tam, Eric Tsang, Wong Ri-wah, Ho Ka-jin, Hong Tianming, Li Zixiong, and others finally defeated Wuhua Changle Football United 3-1.
The game scene. Wang Jian’s photo
Wuhua County in Meizhou City is the famous “Hometown of Football” and the hometown of “World Football King” Li Huitang. The Hong Kong Star Football Team is composed of a group of singers, film and television personalities and a group of football stars who love football. Over the years, they have participated in charities and exchanges. event to promote football.
Hong Kong and Wuhua are connected because of football. “One of the important reasons why we chose Wuhua for this friendly match is to pay tribute to Li Huitang. Second, Alan Tam’s father, Tan Jiangbai, is a former member of the Hong Kong South China team and is also Li’s teammate. Huitang. This is why we chose Wuhua.” The organizer of the event said.
Li Huitang, whose ancestral home is Wuhua, is a famous football player in the history of modern sports in China. He was previously elected as the vice president of FIFA. Li Huitang and Alan Tam’s father, Tan Jiangbai, are teammates in the Hong Kong South China Football Team. Tan Jiangbai is good at leading the ball and is nicknamed “Tan Bongtou” on the court. In 1936, Li Huitang also participated in the Berlin Olympics with Tan Jiangbai.
In this game, Alan Tam started the game and served as the captain of the Hong Kong Stars team. When he announced his home, the audience burst into a warm cheer. “I am very excited to come to Wuhua to play football. I am here to feel the football atmosphere in my father’s hometown Alan Tam thanked the fans for their support.
Zeng Zhiwei, whose ancestral home was Meizhou, was also active in the court. In the opening session, he directly greeted the fans in Hakka dialect, “I am one of myself.”
During the game, the Hong Kong stars also sang classic Cantonese songs such as “Iron-Blooded Heart” and “Karaoke Forever OK”, making the football match a symbol and continuation of friendship.
It is understood that Wuhua not only gave birth to the country’s first county-level Chinese Super League team, but also showed the unique charm of the “football town” to the world by hosting a series of top events. In particular, the football town (referred to here as “football town”) located in Hengpi Town, Wuhua County is full of football elements from roadside green plants, street lights to sculptures. , and there are also places in the football game that will make people feel. before the game.
“Wuhua football is really sharp (Cantonese, amazing wonder)! I see their reasonable plan. They have built 15 football fields, and maybe there will be more in the future,” Hong Tianming said after visit the football city, let the children it is very important to have a place for young people to play football China’s football development needs a place, and Wuhua has done it.
In the football town, Huang Rihua laughed and said that his youth returned after comparing the skills of the young football players from the Hakka Elite Football School, and said that the young football players have good skills and quick reaction. He also hopes to make the 15th People’s Republic of China Sports Games an opportunity to increase football networking activities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promote the development of football in southern Guangdong. (more)