Chapter 269: A Resounding Success

Just as the Hong Kong underworld was shaken by the change of Dragon Head in the number one society, Hung Hing, another explosive piece of news also attracted the attention of most people in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Football Association has reached an agreement with the Mainland side to host the first Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup Football Champion Cup after the Spring Festival, at which time many Hong Kong professional teams will participate.

The news was reported in the first instance through Asia Television and the newspapers under Wu Feng's command.

For a time, all of Hong Kong was watching!

As mentioned earlier, influenced by Great Britain, the football atmosphere here in Hong Kong is quite intense.

In such a tiny place, there is no shortage of professional teams, and there is even a well-developed professional league.

The beginning of the *Young and Dangerous* movie starts right on a football pitch.

Public schools in Hong Kong at this time are nothing special, but a football pitch is a standard feature.

And school pitches are not just places for delinquent students to play; they are also frequent sites of incidents.

Here in Hong Kong, a celebrity football team was formed long ago!

The celebrities who participate are not just looking for publicity; they genuinely enjoy playing football.

Huo Lao still carries a lot of weight!

With him stepping forward to communicate with the Mainland, it was very easy to achieve the goal.

In fact, the Mainland side even accepted all of the competition rules and requirements proposed by Wu Feng!

Soon, other Hong Kong newspapers quickly followed up with reports, and for a time, it was incredibly lively.

Especially when Asia Television and *Mong Kok News* reported in detail on the specific rules of this Champion Cup football tournament, as well as some strong requirements, it became even more lively.

In a certain tea restaurant in Mong Kok, many diners were enjoying their food while fiercely discussing the news that had just been broadcast on the television.

"No tackling from behind, that's how it should be!"

"Indeed, how many genius players have been ruined in matches by tackles from behind!"

"Isn't it just because their skills aren't as good as others and they get angry out of shame that they do such evil things?"

"You can't say it like that; after all, it's easy to get provoked during a match, and if your head gets hot, you might do something that hurts people. It's not like I haven't played football myself!"

"Heh, looks like you've done such evil things before!"

"This rule is interesting; it actually requires the participating teams to focus on offense!"

"Oh, so according to that, the participating teams must play an attacking game?"

"Didn't you hear it on TV? It's just a suggestion, there's no hard rule!"

"Who doesn't know the tricks of the trade? If any team doesn't listen to the instructions, even if they win the final championship, I reckon they won't have a spot in the next one!"

"If that really happens, I bet the players on the team will blow a fuse. The various rewards for this Champion Cup are quite generous; even I want to go play a match after seeing them!"

"You don't know about this, do I? I heard from the youngest son of the second uncle of my next-door neighbor that the biggest sponsor of this competition is the former Hung Hing Dragon Head who just stepped down from the position!"

"No way, even if he is the former Hung Hing Dragon Head, it's unlikely he'd be willing to throw away so much money just to watch the fun!"

"Heh, you still think the former Hung Hing Dragon Head has no money? He is a wealthy man with no small amount of influence in Hong Kong!"

"Since this big financier has requirements, the organizers of the event have to give him some face!"

"Then we fans will have a treat; I love watching attacking duels the most!"

"Who doesn't like watching attacking duels? I've watched a few matches before, and they were all so slow and boring. If it weren't for the promotion on TV, I wouldn't have even been interested in taking a second look!"

"..."

As the promotional efforts on television and in newspapers increased, such discussions could be seen everywhere in Hong Kong.

Although entertainment methods are already diverse at the moment, exciting football matches can still attract great attention from many fans and casual viewers.

Especially after the requirements and suggestions proposed by Wu Feng were reported by television and newspapers, the reaction of Hong Kong residents could be described as quite enthusiastic.

Especially those who watched the Sai Kung amateur football tournament broadcast by Asia Television last year have even more expectations.

In fact, for a football tournament that hasn't even started yet to attract such great attention, besides effective promotion, there must be other reasons.

The biggest reason is that the Mainland's football strength at this time is quite formidable!

In the whole of Asia, they belong to the quasi-first-tier strong teams!

Why quasi-first-tier? Because although the Mainland team has impressive strength, they have never broken into the World Cup finals, so they can only be considered a quasi-first-tier strong team.

But the strength of the national football team at this time is recognized as a strong team in Asia!

Hong Kong residents and professionals alike acknowledge this statement!

Admiring strength is human nature!

Especially in sports competitions, strong is strong; there is no logic to argue with.

Hong Kong people may think the Mainland is poor, but they could never think the Mainland national team is weak.

It is for this reason that they are quite looking forward to the Hong Kong professional football teams being able to compete on the same stage as the Guangdong provincial football teams, and they really want to witness the style of the Guangdong provincial football teams.

And the Guangdong football team has long been known in the Mainland as the South China Tiger, and their strength is quite formidable.

Perhaps in the nineties, with the development of the professional football league in the Mainland, the fame and strength of Guangdong football declined significantly, and people don't know just how dominant Guangdong football was in the eighties.

Take Meizhou, for example—a poor city in Guangdong that leaves no impression at all in later generations—it was a famous football powerhouse in the eighties.

It was even a badass place that could compare to Qingdao or even Dalian in the north.

Although Hong Kong had a professional football league early on, because of its own strength and other aspects, it had absolutely no advantage compared to the Guangdong football team.

It is even hard to say whether they could contend with the Guangdong provincial football team at all.

It is for this reason that the Hong Kong public is so interested in this so-called Champion Cup!

Of course, the saturation-style promotion by Asia Television and the newspapers under Wu Feng also played a big role!

And so, before the quotas for the participating teams had even been determined, government officials in charge of sports in various districts of Hong Kong ran to Mong Kok in a hurry, wanting to seek cooperation.

The content of the cooperation was simple: to arrange the match venues at the football pitches in their respective districts!

This could be considered a happy problem!

Wu Feng did not pay much attention to it, but instead gave this opportunity to show one's face to the biggest financier of this competition, the former Hung Hing Dragon Head, Jiang Tiansheng!

Jiang Tiansheng was naturally overjoyed, heading out every day in high spirits for all sorts of social engagements.

He loved this kind of life and wished for it to last as long as possible.

At this moment, Wu Feng was at the football club he had just acquired.

Ahem, the scale of the football club in Hong Kong was not large, and the training ground was even smaller.

He stood by the side of the training ground, which had only two standard grass pitches, watching the players train on the field.

Even without being a professional, one could tell with the perspective of later generations that the performance of the players currently training was complete trash; whether it was their movement or passing, everything was very mediocre.

(End of this chapter)