{"id":463600,"date":"2026-05-28T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463600\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:52:10","slug":"hong-kong-fa-cup-final-dilemma-for-tai-po-boss-key-players-set-to-join-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463600\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong FA Cup final dilemma for Tai Po boss, key players set to join opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lee Chi-kin has been presented with one of the biggest dilemmas of his long managerial career ahead of Tai Po\u2019s FA Cup final date with Eastern District on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Already without two outgoing attackers, James Temelkovski and Lucas Silva, who have both left Hong Kong, Lee is considering whether to pick influential winger Michel Renner, who is expected to join his final opponents this summer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Cup winners will play AFC Champions League Two football next season.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With more Tai Po players expected to follow Renner to Eastern District, Silva among them, Lee said that some \u201cwill go there, maybe others will leave\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBut wherever you go tomorrow, you need to do your best today,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to say any more. Hong Kong football is very small, and players move around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Temelkovski, here scoring from the spot against Cong An Hanoi, has already left Tai Po. Photo: Elson Li\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5a222a91-d439-4077-b202-8b7a839a3fbd_d242878c.jpg\" title=\"James Temelkovski, here scoring from the spot against Cong An Hanoi, has already left Tai Po. Photo: Elson Li\"\/>James Temelkovski, here scoring from the spot against Cong An Hanoi, has already left Tai Po. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Amid prevailing uncertainty over Tai Po\u2019s plans for next season, Lee has hauled the club out of a mid-season trough to win eight straight games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Chi-kin has been presented with one of the biggest dilemmas of his long managerial career ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20873,25098,1657,215777,29018,3448,215776,85,46,215772,215771,215778,215774,215773,215775,12686,105,100696],"class_list":["post-463600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afc-champions-league-two","tag-cambodia","tag-china","tag-eastern-district","tag-fa-cup","tag-hong-kong","tag-igor-sartori","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-james-temelkovski","tag-kitchee","tag-lee-chi-kin","tag-lo-siu-kei","tag-lucas-silva","tag-michel-renner","tag-mongolia","tag-sports","tag-tai-po"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}