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Roberto Júnior
Roberto Orlando Affonso Júnior (; born 28 May 1983), commonly known as Roberto Júnior, is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in Brazil, he played for the Hong Kong national team. Club career Roberto started his senior career in Brazil with Santos from the age of 16. In 2007, Roberto joined Sun Hei SC following a dispute with his former club, and spent 7 years with Sun Hei, winning the HKFA League Cup and the Senior Shield in his tenure. Following Sun Hei's refusal to join the newly established Hong Kong Premier League for the 2014-15 season, Roberto joined Eastern SC and proceeded to win his first league title in the 2015-16 season. Roberto was also a member in Eastern's 2017 AFC Champions League campaign. He was named in the Best XI in the Hong Kong Top Footballer Awards for 2 seasons (2015-16, 2016-17) as an Eastern player. On 18 June 2017, Eastern's chairman Peter Leung claimed that Roberto was offered a two-year contract by R&F. Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the Americas, Americas, and both the Western Hemisphere, Western and Southern Hemispheres. Listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an global city, alpha global city, it exerts substantial international influence in commerce, finance, arts, and entertainment. It is the List of largest cities#List, largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Geographical distribution of Portuguese speakers, Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city's name honors Paul the Apostle and people from the city are known as ''paulistanos''. The city's Latin motto is ''Non ducor, duco'', which translates as "I am not led, I lead." Founded in 1554 by Jesuit priests, the city was the center of the ''bandeirant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Premier League
The Hong Kong Premier League () is a Hong Kong professional football league organised by the Football Association of Hong Kong, China. It is currently sponsored by BOC Life and officially known as BOC Life Hong Kong Premier League (). The inaugural season began in September 2014. It is the top-division football league in Hong Kong. History On 7 February 2013, the Hong Kong Football Association stated that the new Premier League would get under way in Autumn 2014, where it was suggested that the 2013–14 season would be a transition year. As a result, the 2013–14 Hong Kong First Division League was the last season of the First Division to be the top tier of football in the Hong Kong league system. The clubs already in the top division initially reacted negatively to the perceived increased running costs of competing in a professional league, particularly one where some felt that there was little difference to the old First Division. Five clubs – Citizen, Southern, Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009–10 In Hong Kong Football
The 2009-10 season in Hong Kong football, starting July 2009 and ending June 2010: Overview Representative team Hong Kong Team Asian Cup qualifiers Hong Kong played in their Asian Cup 2011 qualifying campaign. ---- ---- ---- East Asian Football Championship semi-final ---- ---- Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup Hong Kong's 2–1 win to Guangdong in first leg, Julius Akosah scored two goals in his first game for Hong Kong. However, Guangdong scored two goals by Li Jian in second leg. Guangdong win the Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup. Hong Kong has been stopped to be crown-of-four. ---- East Asian Football Championship final competition ---- ---- Hong Kong U-23 East Asian Games 2009 East Asian Games was held in Hong Kong from 2 December 2009 to 13 December 2009. The tournament was won by Hong Kong, who claimed their first international football tournament title. They defeated Japan 4–2 in a penalty shootout in the final, after extra time had finished in a 1–1 draw. --- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008–09 In Hong Kong Football
The 2008–09 season in Hong Kong football, starting July 2008 and ending June 2009: Overview Events On 9 July 2008, South China goalkeeper Zhang Chunhui was sentenced imprisonment for 8 months due to inflicting grievous bodily harm upon another person. He injured a 17-year-old boy in Causeway Bay on 19 December 2007. On 22 July 2008, HKFA confirmed the Hong Kong First Division League team list for 2008-09 season. 13 teams will compete in the top division, among which TSW Pegasus and Xiangxue Eisiti will enter using competing membership, and they will need to sponsor one local cup competition each. There are two team name changes: Lanwa Redbull renamed to be Sheffield United and Wofoo Tai Po renames to be NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po. 2008/09年度甲組聯賽參賽隊伍事宜 On 2 September 2008, the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFC Cup
The AFC Champions League Two (abbreviated as the ACL Two or ACL2) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation. It is the second-tier competition of Asian club football, ranked below the AFC Champions League Elite and above the AFC Challenge League. The competition was founded in 2004 as the AFC Cup, it was played primarily among clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying slots to the top-tier AFC Champions League. The competition rebranded to its current name in 2024. In a bid to increase competitivenes, its format was also changed to include clubs from higher ranked AFC member associations. The prize money was also increased. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their performance in national leagues and cup competitions. Participation in the competition is open to clubs from the top 12 nations in the East and the West region based on the AFC club competitions ranking. The participant from each nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong FA Cup
Hong Kong FA Cup () is a knockout cup competition in Hong Kong football, run by and named after The Hong Kong Football Association. The first edition of the competition was held in 1975, before then the cup was known as the Golden Jubilee Cup. The current season is the 51st edition of the event. 14 different teams have won the cup with 10-time champions South China being the most successful. In the first three years, the semi-finals and the finals were two-legged events. If the aggregate result was drawn, there would be extra time after the second leg. Drawn ties after extra time would be settled by a replay. However, this practice was abandoned in 1977. Since 1978, all matches have become one-legged, draws are settled by extra time and penalty shootouts. In 2013–2016, teams from the First Division, Second Division and Third Division were allowed to enter the competition through qualifying from the preliminary round. However, due to the huge difference in playing level be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong League Cup
Hong Kong Football Association League Cup () was an annual football competition contested by clubs in the top-tier Hong Kong domestic football league. The cup was relaunched for the 2014–15 season after being discontinued in the 2012–13 season. However, it was discontinued again after the 2015–16 season. Format *All teams in the Hong Kong First Division League (until 2013–14 season) or Hong Kong Premier League (until 2015–16 season) are divided into 2 groups (Group A & B) in the first stage. Each team plays against all other teams in the group once. The top two teams in each group qualify for the semi-finals. *In the semi-finals, the first team in Group A plays against the second team in Group B while the first team in Group B plays against the second team in Group A. *The winners of the semi-finals enter the final, which is usually held in Hong Kong Stadium or Mong Kok Stadium. Finals Key Results Results by team See also * The Hong Kong Football Association *Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qatar National Football Team
The Qatar national football team (), nicknamed "The Maroons", represents Qatar in international football, and is controlled by the Qatar Football Association, which is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and comes under the global jurisdiction of world football’s governing body FIFA. They play their home games at Khalifa International Stadium and Jassim bin Hamad Stadium. The latter is considered the home stadium. The team won the Arabian Gulf Cup in 1992, 2004 and 2014. They have appeared in ten Asian Cup tournaments and won it twice in 2019 and 2023, beating Japan, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea in the process during 2019, conceding just one goal. Qatar hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup and therefore qualified automatically for what was their first appearance in the event. It was the first time an Arab nation hosted the competition. On 25 November 2022, Qatar were the first team to be eliminated from the World Cup; subsequently, they became the worst perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 FIFA World Cup Qualification (AFC)
The Asian section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, for national teams which were members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). 4.5 slots (four direct slots and one inter-confederation play-off slot) in the final tournament were available for AFC teams. On 16 April 2014, the AFC Executive Committee approved a proposal to merge the preliminary qualification rounds of the FIFA World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup, which expanded to 24 teams starting in 2019 AFC Asian Cup, 2019. Therefore, the first two rounds of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers also acted as 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification, qualifiers for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Format The qualification structure was as follows: *First round: 12 teams (ranked 35–46) played home-and-away over Two-legged tie, two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round. *Second round: 40 teams (ranked 1–34 and six first round winners) wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022-23 Hong Kong Premier League
The symbol , known in Unicode as hyphen-minus, is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash, so it is also used for these. The name ''hyphen-minus'' derives from the original ASCII standard, where it was called ''hyphen (minus)''. The character is referred to as a ''hyphen'', a ''minus sign'', or a ''dash'' according to the context where it is being used. Description In early typewriters and character encodings, a single key/code was almost always used for hyphen, minus, various dashes, and strikethrough, since they all have a similar appearance. The current Unicode Standard specifies distinct characters for several different dashes, an unambiguous minus sign (sometimes called the ''Unicode minus'') at code point U+2212, an unambiguous hyphen (sometimes called the ''Unicode hyphen'') at U+2010, the hyphen-minus at U+002D and a variety of other hyphen symbols for various uses. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
