{"id":165272,"date":"2025-09-24T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165272\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:02:08","slug":"nfl-game-in-china-yes-says-hong-kong-born-la-chargers-star-who-loves-dim-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165272\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL game in China? Yes, says Hong Kong-born LA Chargers star who loves dim sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cameron Dicker may be the man of the moment in American football, but he was made partly in China, and has said he would welcome revisiting his roots by taking an NFL match there.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Born in Hong Kong and raised in Shanghai, Dicker, of the Los Angeles Chargers, last week became the most accurate kicker in NFL history among those to have attempted 100 field goals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And this week, he landed the latest of his attempts to beat the Denver Broncos on the last play, giving the Chargers their first 3-0 start in 23 years and himself a 94.2 per cent conversion rate, far ahead of second-placed Justin Tucker\u2019s 89.1.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But \u201cDicker the Kicker\u201d has not forgotten his Chinese backstory, nor his first love, acquired there: soccer. The 25-year-old supports Liverpool and even wears No 11 in homage to Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cameron Dicker\u2019s kick defeats Denver on Sunday. Photo: Imagn Images via Reuters Connect\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b266c409-7fc5-4d15-bf8c-8a41da18dd3e_25a823ce.jpg\" title=\"Cameron Dicker\u2019s kick defeats Denver on Sunday. Photo: Imagn Images via Reuters Connect\"\/>Cameron Dicker\u2019s kick defeats Denver on Sunday. Photo: Imagn Images via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking exclusively to the Post, Dicker said it would be \u201cvery cool\u201d to stage an NFL match in Hong Kong or mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Dicker may be the man of the moment in American football, but he was made partly in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,631,3686,11308,86069,17470,512,1256,1208,10340,1240,1250,108682,108680,108681,13504,3052,1263,2184,593,108683,108687,108685,108686,1260,1262,83599,4933,85,7508,11069,108689,108688,108677,108679,108678,108684],"class_list":["post-165272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-beijing","tag-brazil","tag-cameron-dicker","tag-chargers","tag-china","tag-denver-broncos","tag-england","tag-hong-kong","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-live-in-china","tag-live-in-hong-kong","tag-live-in-shanghai","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mexico","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-china","tag-nfl-global","tag-nfl-hong-kong","tag-nfl-overseas","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sao-paulo","tag-shanghai","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl","tag-taiwan","tag-university-of-texas","tag-us-china-ties","tag-us-expats-china","tag-us-expats-hong-kong","tag-us-expats-shanghai","tag-us-sports-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}