Harbor head coach Muscat emphasized: They represent the future! , the 4-year-old genius guard defends Li Shenglong closely
This year’s Children’s Day falls on Saturday. The 4th Harbor Football Club Carnival Children’s Day parent-child event with the theme of “Continue to Dream, Build Love for Children” was held in the outfield of SAIC Pudong Football Stadium, attracting about 400 Harbor fans from 150 families. participate. Shanghai Harbor Team head coach Muscat and his players Li Ang, Li Shenglong, Cai Huikang, Liu Zhurun and Shen Zigui came to the scene to interact with fans and children.
This season, under the leadership of Muscat's "offensive football", Shanghai Haigang has achieved an excellent record of 10 wins and 3 draws. At the same time, the appearance of the Harbor team on the field has also changed significantly compared with last season. With one game less, the team topped the Chinese Super League with 43 goals. This season's Harbor team can both win and win well, and coach Muscat is indispensable.
Even before the event started, fans waiting in line in the center of the venue burst into cheers. It turned out that the head coach of the Harbor team, Muscat, came to the event with all the Harbor players. Many young fans excitedly rushed to Muscat to ask for photos and autographs, showing the popularity of the Australian coach. Amid waves of applause from the fans, Muscat took the stage to pay tribute. He emphasized the importance of youth football: "The happiest thing today is to see so many children on the scene. These children are the future of the Harbor team."
The head coach of the Harbor team interacts with the young Harbor fans.
On May 26, the 14th round of the Chinese Super League started at Pudong Stadium. Shanghai Haigang defeated the Cangzhou Lions 4-1 at home. During the game, Harbor fans played an impressive Children’s Day giant TIFO with the theme of “Heritage”. At the event site, representatives of the Harbor Fan Club collectively presented coach Muscat with a commemorative jersey with Children's Day TIFO printed on it, wishing them a happy Children's Day, which symbolizes the inheritance of Harbor fans' culture. The back of the jersey is autographed by representatives of the fan association, which means that as the twelfth man of the team, he will always be the team's most solid backing.
A total of two special competitions are planned for the carnival. The first game was an 8V8 match between young players from the club’s youth training partner schools. The young players were divided into red and white teams and competed for 20 minutes. These little players, who are only as tall as the waist of an adult man, broke out with amazing fighting power on the green field. The white team's No. 3 made a self-sacrifice block, which attracted the applause of Muscat who was watching the game on the sidelines. In the first half, neither team scored a goal.
Harbor players such as Li Ang and Cai Huikang interacted with fans.
During halftime, Muscat walked to the center of the field to cheer for the young players and promote the concept of "offensive football" to them: "What I like most is scoring goals. In the second half, everyone only needs to focus on one thing, that is Work hard to score goals." The coach's words were engraved in the hearts of these young players. In the second half of the game, the white team scored from a corner kick and won the match.
The second game was even more interesting. Five Harbor players led by Li Ang, Li Shenglong and Cai Huikang faced off against 30 young football players. At the moment of kick-off, 30 cute children surrounded the five players, leaving these players who are usually powerful in the professional arena at a loss. Li Shenglong also brought his four-year-old son with him. As a result, his opponent was responsible for guarding his father during the game. He clutched his father's jersey tightly and "guarded tightly" throughout the game, which was very cute. After the game, Li Shenglong said: "I am very happy to participate in such a meaningful event, which can make them all feel this happy atmosphere. I will also work hard to cultivate children's interest in football in the future."
A charity market was also set up at the event, which gathered charity products donated by fans and friends.
A charity market was also set up at the event, which gathered charity products donated by fans and friends. There were crowds of people in front of each stall, and shouts and shouts came one after another. The "stall owners" tried their best to attract "customers" to stop. Every fan friend was very happy that he could contribute to charity. All sales revenue from this market will be donated to the Harbor Annual Ring Orientation Fund Pool established by the Shanghai Charity Foundation.
Sha Liangchang, General Manager of Harbor Club, presented the annual ring fund certificates of honor to representatives of each fan club, and took a warm group photo together. As a reserved event of the annual carnival, the media team, fan team, and college fan team jointly held a friendly match.
A Harbor fan wearing Wu Lei's No. 7 jersey praised: "This event was very well organized. These players are usually far away from us, but this time we can get in close contact with them. We not only have fun, but also feel proud of ourselves." We have made some small contributions to charity.” In addition to the fans, player Li Ang was also very happy to participate in this event: “This event is really good, and it can allow more children to be exposed to football and fall in love with football. It was because my parents bought me a football when I was young that I started to love the sport of football.”
Coach Muscat concluded in an interview with Five Star Sports: "This activity is a good learning opportunity for children, because children at this age have strong imitation abilities, and they are constantly looking for One can also let them learn and imitate someone. Today our players came and demonstrated by example, playing football with them and interacting with them to make them happy. On such a special day, they can participate in such a game. Important event, both for the coach and the players, we all had a very enjoyable afternoon.”
