Follow Hong Kong Immigration, follow Hong Kong Life: The "Lunar New Year Cup" football tournament, one of the traditional festive celebration programs for Hong Kong citizens, will be held in Hong Kong on the 31st of this month and the 3rd of next month. The organizer, Citizen Athletic Association, donated 8,000 tickets to the Commission on Poverty of the Hong Kong SAR Government on the 9th, which will be distributed to grassroots families in Hong Kong. Additionally, 4,000 tickets were donated to primary and secondary school students to encourage youth participation in football and promote social inclusion.
On that day, the Citizen Athletic Association announced the details of this annual Lunar New Year football event and held a ticket donation ceremony. This year, the association has invited four international teams to perform in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Stadium, the highest number of foreign teams in the tournament's history.
In the preliminary round on the 31st of this month, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Hong Kong football team Citizen will form a joint team with Deportivo Cuenca from Ecuador to face FC Krylia Sovetov Samara from Russia; FC Tokyo from Japan will compete against Olhanense from Portugal. The two winning teams from the preliminary round will compete for the "Lunar New Year Cup" championship on the 3rd of next month, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.
This year's "Lunar New Year Cup" football tournament has been designated by the Social Participation Working Group of the Commission on Poverty of the Hong Kong SAR Government as the inaugural event of the 2014 "Bless Hong Kong" social welfare care campaign. The Citizen Athletic Association hopes that by donating tickets to grassroots families in Hong Kong, it will encourage them to watch international football matches with all sectors of society during the Lunar New Year, share in the joy, achieve social inclusion, and build a spirit of poverty alleviation.
