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Hong Kong cyclist Ceci Lee Sze-wing has promised to go flat-out on Saturday in pursuit of a first time-trial success at the city’s National Road Championships. Lee has won the road race at the past two editions, but finished runner-up behind Chloe Leung Wing-yee in last year’s race against the clock. An Olympian last year on road and track, Lee has outgrown the local scene, and acknowledged Hong Kong titles were only “a little target”.

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If it sounds far-fetched that Matthew Mak Pak-hei has targeted winning the Champions League, the Hongkonger’s ascent to a plum European football job suggests he is entitled to dream big. Mak, 25, is into his third season as an analyst for Swedish champions Malmo, only seven years after he began “looking into tactics for fun”. He got there by studying for a degree at Real Madrid, but was initially fixated on the methods of Pep Guardiola, perfected at Barcelona and now practised at Manchester City.

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Yapp Hung-fai has said he still hopes to play abroad, 12 years after the dispiriting collapse of a transfer to mainland China. In 2013, the Chinese Football Association blocked Yapp’s proposed transfer from South China to Guizhou Rehne, because of a Super League veto on foreign goalkeepers. “In Hong Kong, we don’t have the resources and quality of China, Japan, or Korea,” Eastern No 1 Yapp said.

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Hong Kong defender Helio Goncalves has urged the city’s young prospects to get serious or risk failing to fulfil their potential. Goncalves, who was recently released by Kitchee following 11 silverware-laden seasons, said that even into his 40th year he would routinely beat the youngsters to training. “In Hong Kong there are lots of players with huge potential, but something is missing,” Goncalves added. “They need to be pushed.