{"id":31464,"date":"2025-07-30T02:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31464\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:53:04","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-make-low-key-hong-kong-football-festival-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31464\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur make low-key Hong Kong Football Festival entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tottenham Hotspur made a relatively low-key entrance to the Hong Kong Football Festival on Tuesday, holding a public training session in front of 9,080 fans at Kai Tak Stadium.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the Europa League winners drew only around one-third of the 27,000 who watched Liverpool practice last Thursday, the Spurs devotees lapped up their 75 minutes of action.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Stars including James Maddison, Richarlison and fan favourite Son Heung-min participated in various keep-ball games, before moving through some gruelling sprinting exercises and into a full game, played on half the pitch.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Days after Liverpool captain Virgil Van Dijk criticised the surface, it again noticeably cut-up as players engaged in slick, condensed drills where they tried to keep the ball away from each other.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Any sight of Son on the big screen generated excited screams, although the cheers gave way to jeers when the cameras picked out a fan wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words \u2018I love Levy\u2019, in reference to the club\u2019s unpopular chairman Daniel Levy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Son Heung-min powers forwards as the Kai Tak playing surface shows signs of wear and tear. Photo: Elson Li\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/10cdd914-627a-4b33-9d34-d7207271ee51_7b75e656.jpg\" title=\"Son Heung-min powers forwards as the Kai Tak playing surface shows signs of wear and tear. Photo: Elson Li\"\/>Son Heung-min powers forwards as the Kai Tak playing surface shows signs of wear and tear. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Also captured on the large television was a youngster wearing a Liverpool shirt, a reminder of the Premier League champions\u2019 overwhelming popularity in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur made a relatively low-key entrance to the Hong Kong Football Festival on Tuesday, holding a public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[29479,3361,1724,64,63,29476,6254,596,29475,10340,29478,22554,29477,1613,1614,966,29474,85,10988],"class_list":["post-31464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-andrew-cesare-richardson","tag-arsenal","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-levy","tag-europa-league","tag-football","tag-harry-kane","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-football-festival","tag-james-maddison","tag-kai-tak-stadium","tag-liverpool","tag-premier-league","tag-richarlison","tag-son-heung-min","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464","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=31464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}