Citizen vs SCAA: Some Shocking Moments

It wasn’t a quiet night at the Mong Kok stadium on Friday. Citizen was there to take on South China, and the match ended with a lot of noises.

Carreiro scored at the 3rd minute for Citizen to give them an early lead. Citizen kept pressing throughout first half which gave them plenty of chances. At 32 minute, SCAA Yeo Jeehoon was sent off after receiving his second yellow. Later, Yuto Nakamura managed to scored another goal before the end of the first half. Giving Citizen a two goals lead into half time and SCAA was a man down. It all looked like Citizen had the upper hand, but things started to get complicated when 2nd half began.

AFC Cup Draw: For Your Information

We are at the draw for obvious reason, because two of our local league teams, Kitchee and Citizen will be participating in AFC Cup 2012. After hearing a lot of A1, C2, B4, and quite a number of clubs that we never heard of (sorry about that!), the groups are as shown in the picture (You can click to enlarge).

All The Way Back to Football: The Story of Citizen Player, Michael Campion

Most people use the amount of money they earn, to measure their success in career, but this does not apply to Michael Campion, a footballer playing for The Citizen Athletic Association Limited, a club in Hong Kong bma 1^st Division Football League.

There is a connection between Campion and football ever since he could remember. ‘Since I was old enough to stand up is probably the correct answer, but I first started getting proper coaching when I was around seven or eight years old.’ His father was the first person who brought him to the field and this connection has never been broken.

Unlike other English kids who could be able to begin their football career at early age, being born and raised in Hong Kong had given Campion a different kind of pressure. ‘Education is very important for old parents, my parents really wanted me to go to university and get a proper education first,’ Campion explained. So despite went for trials at England clubs like Derby County and Nottingham Forest at age 16, he did not sign for any of them. ‘When you were age 16, you didn’t know what you want, but I could have maybe put up more of a fight,’ a bit of regret was there in Campion’s voice, now ten years later, he knows that was the thing that he should have fought for.

10 Days in Hong Kong: With Plenty of Football

We know we were gone for a long time, having fun in our hometown but now we are back from holiday and everything will resume to normal. Blog will be updated regularly according to schedule, from Monday to Thursday, then Saturday and Sunday. 

Here we are going to share what we have done in our ten days holiday, it began with an amazing wedding filled with Manchester United. Our friends Bob and Karen finally tied the knot and present us with a wedding full of Manchester United, as the two were both United fans and knew each other because of their love for United! Congrats again to the lovely couple! =)

Picture of the Day: Photo inside a photo

Citizen players celebrated their first goal by snatching photographer’s camera and took their own picture. Although Tuen Mun managed to get an equalizer at the beginning of second half, Citizen went on to win the game by scoring a penalty near the end of the game, and this time, they celebrated by ‘playing golf’. Creative huh? And no, they didn’t practice that during training.

We took sometime to get inside the stadium for some local football during our holiday, and we had some great time there, for more match photos, click here! We also had a nice chat with Citizen player, Michael Campion, the article will be up as soon as we finished writing it! So, stay tune.