China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network Reporter Lin Jie) With the referee's whistle, a unique football exchange activity kicked off at the "Qinggong Sky Stadium" located on the central axis of the thousand-year-old ancient road on Beijing Road in Guangzhou. Recently, the young football players from Hong Kong and Guangzhou cooperated tacitly and learned skills on the spot, and Mai Chao, Li Zhihai and Lu Lin, three famous players in the southern Guangdong football world, guided and cheered for the players, and also personally went down the field to compete with the young players.
Guangzhou-Hong Kong youth football players compete with each other. Photo courtesy of the organizer.
The 2024 Guangzhou-Hong Kong Youth Football Exchange Activity is hosted by the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Guangzhou Football Association and the Guangzhou Youth Federation. The event set up football exchange matches, fun sports competitions, football celebrity reviews and on-site teaching guidance, and 30 teenagers from Hong Kong and Guangzhou participated in the competition, divided into the Hong Kong Bauhinia team and the Guangzhou Kapok team. The organizers said that this football event full of youth and vitality ignited the passion of the young people of Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and promoted the exchange and relay of non-governmental football between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. On the occasion of the opening of the 42nd Provincial Hong Kong Cup Football Tournament and the advent of the New Year of the Dragon, the young people of the two places have formed a deep friendship.
Warm-up exercises for young players before the game. Photo courtesy of the organizer.
Zhang Yu, the leading teacher of Guangzhou Peizheng Middle School, said that Bauhinia and Kapok are the "city flowers" of Hong Kong and Guangzhou respectively, and this time they named the team after the Bauhinia team and the Kapok team respectively, which is very meaningful, and hopes that students from Guangzhou and Hong Kong can use football as a medium to communicate with each other frequently.
Wang Yizhang, a player from Hong Kong, said that he cherished the opportunity to learn football skills with his friends in Guangzhou, and in addition to meeting new friends, he could also get professional guidance from famous "big coffee" at the event, which was worth the trip. Liang Yiyang, a player from Guangzhou, said that the Hong Kong Cup is a football competition with a long history between Guangdong and Hong Kong, "If we can expand the teams participating in the Hong Kong Cup to primary and secondary school students in the two places, then we can really become a part of the Hong Kong Cup." ”
The scene of the event. Photo courtesy of the organizer.
It is reported that the 42nd Provincial Hong Kong Cup Football Tournament completed the first leg of the competition in Hong Kong on January 31, and the second leg of the competition was held in Guangzhou on February 7.
*: China Youth Daily client.