Being the champion team in Hong Kong, the CityU Men’s Soccer Team came third in the All China University Football Super League (Southern Region) (ACUFSL) and proudly grabbed a place in the nation-wide finals!

The CityU team made a very good start by winning the South China University of Technology and then defeated other tertiary institutes such as Kunming University of Science and Technology and Central South University. Despite losing to Tongji University by 2:3, the CityU soccer players managed to capture the 2nd runner-up title in style, thanks to the goalie Tin Man-ho (Applied Social Sciences, Year 1) who made 3 brilliant saves in the penalty shootout during the match against Nanjing University.

The team coach, Mr. Gordis Yau reflected, “The secret of CityU’s success in ACUFSL can be summarised by our team motto and team culture: ‘Control the Controllables’ – only focus on those things that we can handle; ‘Attitude Determines Altitude’ – our team is equipped with positivity, good self-esteem and everlasting fighting spirit; ‘We are Team, We are Family’ – good players win matches, only a team wins championship.”

Being one of the “Best 8 teams”, CityU is qualified to play in the ACUFSL Finals to be held in Shanghai in June 2016. The CityU Men’s Soccer Team is definitely striving to be the best that they can be and hopefully to make history!