The 2007 Lunar New Year Cup (formerly known as the Carlsberg Cup) was a football tournament held in Hong Kong on the first and fourth day of the Chinese New Year of the Boar (18 February and 21 February 2007).

Squads

Australia Olympic Team

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• Head Coach: Rob Baan
• Assistant Coach: Graham Arnold
• Goalkeeper Coach: Tony Franken
• Team Manager: Gary Moretti
• Doctor: Marc Cesana
• Equipment Manager: Dominic Rabsch
• Physiotherapist: Philip Coles
• Conditioner / Masseur: Paul Scott

China Olympic Team

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• H.O.D.: Nan Yong
• Head coach: Ratomir Dujkovi
• Assistant coach: Aleksandar Tomic, Su Maozhen
• Goalkeeper coach: Stevan Mi i
• Team Manager: Li Xiaoguang
• Aministrator: Guo Bingyan, Hu Ping
• Coach: Jia Xiuquan
• Doctor: Zhang Peng, Yan Cheng

Hong Kong League XI

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• Team Manager: Steven Lo Kit Shing, Raymond Chow Man Leung
• Manager Assistant: Lee Yuen Wah
• Co-Ordinator: Tsang Wai Chung
• Coach: Casemiro Mior
• Assistant Coach: Dejan Antoni

Note: * Ivan Jevi replaced Jaimes Mckee of HKFC who withdrew from the squad due to injury.^[4]

Jamaica Olympic Team

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• H.O.D.: Linnel Mclean
• Technical Director: Bora Milutinovic
• Coach: Wendell Downswell
• Team Manager: Howard Bell
• Equipment Steward: Manley Burrowes
• Team Doctor: Dr. Mark Sanderson

Results

All times given in Hong Kong Time (UTC+8).

Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Bracket

2007 Lunar New Year Cup Winner
Jamaica Jamaica Olympic Team First Title

Top scorers

2 goals

• Keith Gumbs

1 goal

• Bruce Djite
• Fabian Taylor
• Festus Baise
• Jiang Ning
• Nathan Burns

Trivia

• The only two goalscoers of Australia Olympic Team, Nathan Burns and Bruce Djite are both from Adelaide United. Together with Robert Cornthwaite, who scored an own goal in the first match against China Olympic Team, all three Adelaide United players in the squad "scored" in the competition.
• The host Hong Kong team has not been able to win in the second day of the competition for 15 consecutive years (except in 2005 when there was only a one-match against Brazil).
• The host Hong Kong team finishes at the last place for 5 consecutive years.

See also

• 2006 Carlsberg Cup
• Hong Kong Football Association
• Hong Kong First Division League
• Lunar New Year Cup

References

External links

• 2007 Lunar New Year Cup, HKFA Website
• News, HKFA Website

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