City’s top stopper Yapp Hung-fai knows hopes of playing overseas are slimmer aged 35, but refuses to give up on dream
Yapp Hung-fai has said he still hopes to play abroad, 12 years after the dispiriting collapse of a transfer to mainland China.
In 2013, the Chinese Football Association blocked Yapp’s proposed move from South China to Guizhou Rehne, because of a Super League veto on foreign goalkeepers.
“In Hong Kong, we don’t have the resources and quality of China, Japan, or Korea,” Eastern No 1 Yapp said. “The level of training and matches is higher abroad, so I’d have improved, and had the feeling of being a professional goalkeeper. I still want to [go overseas], but as I get older, there’s less chance.”
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