Tickets for the Hong Kong Sevens go on sale today from 10am. The tournament, 5-7 April 2024, will be the 30th and last at the Hong Kong Stadium before the event moves to the new Kai Tak Sports Park in 2025.
Hong Kong Sevens
Date: 5-7 April, 2024
Venue: HK Stadium
Tickets: $1,950
More info: www.HKsevens.com
As the police watched on videoing fans to ensure patriotic complaiance over 12,000 were on hand at the Hong Kong Stadium for Hong Kong‘s first home game in front of HongKongers since 2019.
Poor finishing denied the home team and its supporters a chance to really celebrate as coach Jorn Andersen’s new look team spurned chance after chance.
“I want to be positive, we played a really good game,” Andersen said. “The first half was excellent. We attacked a lot, we created a lot, we defended high, we won the ball high and were creating chances. But today we were not so lucky and that’s why I’m not so happy today. We couldn’t make the goal that the Hong Kong fans wanted to see today.”
“We got very big support from the spectators. They pushed us to the front and we tried our best, but at the end we couldn’t make that first goal to make everyone happy. I’m sorry for that,” Andersen added.
In reality, while a win would have been nice the score was irrelevant; that fans could finally watch their team in person meant everyone was a winner.
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A full house at Hong Kong Stadium rocked to the songs of Tottenham Hotspur and South China fans as Spurs, looking a completely different team from Wednesday, demolished the Hong Kong side 6-0 to win the third place play-off. Manchester City’s millionaires had too much for a hard working Sunderland and won the Barclays Asia Trophy 2013 by a single goal.
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Joy and despair as a noisy Hong Kong stadium crowd ignored the rain at the Barclays Asia Trophy 2013
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