HK Team Goal Keeper: Fan Chun Yip

Glutter’s Hong Kong

Dispite much cultural, poltical, social musings, China beat Hong Kong by a huge margin but managed still not to qualify for the 2006 World Cup… sigh. China beat HK 7-0 but Kuwait got 6-1 against Malaysia. So we lagged two points. Look at the headline..

 FIFA World Cup misery for China despite thrashing Hong Kong 7-0

Crap huh?

To cheer myself up, I looked up  Fan Chun Yip, who I noticed while watching the HK-China World Cup Qualifying match…. hmmm.

Very Cute Football Player..

Name: Fan Chun Yip
Affiliation Current Club / Position:     Happy Valley / Goal Keeper
Date of Birth:     1976.05.01
City of Birth:     Hong Kong
Height / Weight:     181 / 75
Appearances in International A matches / Goals in International A matches 21 / 0 (as of 2004, May)

Introduction    

Fan has become probably the best-known player in Hong Kong as a result of his performances against two European giants, Liverpool (July 2003) and Real Madrid (August 2003), the latter a second-half clean sheet and by holding China at bay for most of the World Cup qualifier in March 2004. He also made himself famous in the inaugural East Asian Football Championship Finals, with superb performance in matches against the Asian giants Korea and Japan.

The undisputed number one in national team coach Kenny Lai Sun Cheung?s Hong Kong team, Fan is a confident and agile shot stopper who is almost unbeatable from long-range. His consistency applies to his club matches for Happy Valley and he was named the "Sunray Cave Senior Shield 2003/2004 Best Defender, after leading his side to a 3-0 victory over bitter rivals Sun Hei in the tournament’s final.

 

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