Football fans were granted most of their wishes at Hong Kong Stadium on Saturday as the Saudi Super Cup concluded with a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo, even if the Portuguese was narrowly denied the silverware. A crowd of about 30,000 cheered Ronaldo’s every contribution, with Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law Shuk-pui and…
This week’s Saudi Super Cup in Hong Kong could help deepen ties between two “very powerful countries” in Saudi Arabia and China, a leading executive from Cristiano Ronaldo’s club Al-Nassr has said. The four-team competition is being staged in Hong Kong for the first time, with Al-Nassr set to meet Saudi champions Al-Ittihad in the…
A Hong Kong government department has backed down on its decision to deny several of the city’s sports teams the chance to compete at the National Games, and has lowered the bar to allow more to do so. Several of the city’s national sports associations (NSAs) had voiced concerns about the announcement of selection criteria…
Ashley Westwood asked for advice from Alex Ferguson when weighing up his Hong Kong job offer, but the Englishman has said he knew he could not resist trying to improve an “underperforming” team. In a wide-ranging interview with the Post six months after replacing the popular Jorn Andersen as the city’s football head coach, Westwood…
Liverpool and two other English Premier League clubs will come to Hong Kong in the summer as part of their pre-season tour of Asia, multiple sources told the Post on Friday. It is not yet known if all three Premier League sides would be in the city at the same time, but the expectation is…