BEST FOOT FORWARD

Inter Miami, of course, are not the only team taking part in the clash on February 4. The illustrious visitors will line up against a high-quality select XI of local Hong Kong stars, many of them regulars with the city’s national side

By Richard Lord.

The Hong Kong football team have been making a splash of late. In January, they beat the China team for the first time in almost three decades, gaining a 2-1 victory in a friendly in Abu Dhabi. At the Hangzhou Asian Games in October, they beat Palestine and Iran, reaching the semi-finals; they ultimately placed fourth out of the 21 men’s teams that participated. This was a first, and a new high, for Hong Kong men’s football—before this, their best performance at the games was back in 1958, when they reached the quarterfinals. The historic achievement marks a reversal of fortune for the team in a remarkably short period of time: just a month before the Asian Games, they had lost 0-10 to Uzbekistan. The team’s growth and success are…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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