The 2007

Lunar New Year Cup The Lunar New Year Cup, previously known as the Carlsberg Challenge or the Carlsberg Cup, is an annual invitational association football, football tournament organised in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) since 1908. It is usua ...

(formerly known as the Carlsberg Cup) was a

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tournament held in

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on the first and fourth day of the

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of the

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(2 February and 5 February 2007).

Participating teams

* China Olympic Team * Australia Olympic Team *

Hong Kong League XI The Hong Kong League XI, also known as the Hong Kong XI or Hong Kong League Selection, is a football team which represents the Hong Kong First Division League in exhibition matches, mainly the Lunar New Year Cup. The team is selected from the ...

* Jamaica Olympic Team

Squads

Australia Olympic Team

The Australian squad was as follows. *Head coach:

Rob Baan Robert Baan (born 1 April 1943 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football coach. He was coach of FC VVV, Roda JC, and FC Twente, assistant coach of PSV and assistant and interim coach of the Dutch national football team. He won Dutch First Division c ...

*Assistant coach:

Graham Arnold Graham James Arnold (born 3 August 1963) is an Australian association football, professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of the Iraq national football team, Iraq national team. Arnold was first appointed ...

*Goalkeeper coach:

Tony Franken Anthony (Tony) Franken (born 11 January 1965) is an Australian professional football goalkeeper coach and former professional goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Australian women's national football team. Biography He repr ...

*Team manager: Gary Moretti *Doctor: Marc Cesana *Equipment Manager: Dominic Rabsch *Physiotherapist: Philip Coles *Conditioner / Masseur: Paul Scott

China Olympic Team

The Chinese squad was as follows. * H.O.D.: Nan Yong * Head coach:

Ratomir Dujković Ratomir Dujković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратомир Дујковић; born 24 February 1946) is a Serbian football manager and a former player. Playing career Born and raised in Borovo Naselje to an ethnic Serb family, Dujković attended Ivan ...

* Assistant coach: Aleksandar Tomic,

Su Maozhen Su Maozhen (; born 30 July 1972) is a Chinese football coach and former international player. As a player, he spent his whole career with Shandong Luneng as a striker where he won several league and cups with them as well as being a regular f ...

* Goalkeeper coach:

Stevan Mićić Stevan Andrija Mićić ( sr-cyr, Стеван Андрија Мићић; born 4 April 1996) is a Serbian-American wrestler who competes at Wrestling weight classes#Men's freestyle wrestling, 57 kilograms (125 pounds). He won a gold medal in free ...

* Team manager: Li Xiaoguang * Administrator:

Guo Bingyan "Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated as Cok, Gou, Quo, Quach, Quek, Que, Keh, Kuo, Kwo, Kuoch, Kok, Koc, Kwee, Kwek, K ...

, Hu Ping * Coach:

Jia Xiuquan Jia Xiuquan (; born 9 November 1963) is a Chinese football manager and former international player. Club career As a player, Jia Xiuquan predominately played the majority of his career for Bayi Football Team. During his time at Bayi, he saw t ...

* Doctor: Zhang Peng, Yan Cheng

Hong Kong League XI

The Hong Kong squad was as follows. * Team manager: Steven Lo Kit Shing, Raymond Chow Man Leung * Manager Assistant: Lee Yuen Wah * Co-Ordinator:

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* Coach:

Casemiro Mior Casemiro Mior (born January 12, 1958) is a Brazilian former football manager and former footballer. Playing career During his career as a footballer, he played for Grêmio, Internacional and Internacional de Limeira. He was infamously sen ...

* Assistant coach:

Dejan Antonić Dejan Antonić (, ; born 22 January 1969) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is the father of Stefan Antonić, who plays football professionally in Hong Kong. Club career In Europe Antonić started his professional football car ...

Note: *

Ivan Jević Ivan Jević ( sr-Cyrl, Иван Јевић; born 23 July 1975) is a Serbian professional football coach and a former player who played as a defender. He is an assistant coach with the Kazakhstani club Tobol The Tobol (, ) is a river in Weste ...

replaced

Jaimes Mckee Jaimes Anthony McKee (; born 14 April 1987) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward or winger. He is currently the assistant coach of Hong Kong U-23. He was the top scorer of the Hong Kong Senior Shield in the 2006– ...

HKFC Hong Kong Football Club (HKFC; ), established in 1886, is a private members' club in Hong Kong. The name reflects the origin as a club for playing association football and rugby. The club is situated in Happy Valley, with the sports pitches ...

who withdrew from the squad due to injury.

Jamaica Olympic Team

The Jamaican squad was a follows.HKFA Website Jamaica Olympic Team
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*Coach:

Wendell Downswell Wendell Downswell (born 5 February 1958) the current Jamaica youth national team technical director as well as the technical director of Jamaica Playing career High school and college Downswell was born Savannah-la-Mar, Jamaica. He played fo ...

*Team manager: Howard Bell *Equipment Steward: Manley Burrowes *Team doctor: Dr. Mark Sanderson

Results

''All times given in

Hong Kong Time Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT; ) is the time in Hong Kong, observed at UTC+08:00 all year round. The Hong Kong Observatory is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time. It is indicated as Asia/Hong_Kong in the IANA time zone database ...

(

UTC+8 UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00. It is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time, mainly due to China's large population, with an estimated population ...

).''

Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Bracket

Top scorers

2 goals *

Keith Gumbs Keith Jerome Kayamba Gumbs Tukijo (born 11 September 1972) is a Kittitian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Playing career Gumbs was born in Basseterre. He began playing football while he was attending the Newtown Prima ...

1 goal *

Bruce Djite Bruce José Djité (French pronunciation: ; born 25 March 1987) is an Australian executive and former association football (soccer) player. he is South Australian executive director of the Property Council of Australia. Djite made a name for ...

* Fabian Taylor * Festus Baise *

Jiang Ning Jiang Ning (; ; born 1 September 1986) is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a striker and winger. Club career Ning began his football career when he joined Qingdao Jonoon's youth academy at the age of 11. He made hi ...

Nathan Burns Nathan Burns (born 7 May 1988) is a retired Australian people, Australian professional Association football, footballer who played for the Australia men's national soccer team, Australian national team. Club career Adelaide United He formerly ...

References

External links

2007 Lunar New Year Cup
HKFA Website
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HKFA Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Lunar

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