Rising movie star Angela Yuen, whose talents have been recognised at the Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards, signed with a local female football team this month
Hong Kong actor Angela Yuen is branching out from filmmaking into football this month. On September 8, she posted on her Instagram account that she had joined United Citizen Women Football Club, an amateur sports team set up in 2010, which runs under the Citizen Athletic Association. The football club also shared the news on its Instagram page.
The team’s coach, professional player Leung Kwun Chung, praised her skills. The actor is not new to sport, though, being a long-time volleyball player. And while there is no official word yet on Yuen playing for the team at upcoming games, Leung hasn’t ruled it out.
Angela Yuen (right) and a United Citizen Women Football Club teammate (Photo: Instagram/@angela.yuen)
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Yuen was nominated for Best Leading Actress at the Golden Horse Awards in 2022 and Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2023 for Lam Sum’s The Narrow Road, a film set during the early days of the Covid pandemic. She also starred in a number of well received Hong Kong productions, including Sasha Chuk’s Fly Me to the Moon (2023) and Eric Tsang Hing Weng’s Hong Kong Family (2022).
Yuen reassured her fans in her Instagram post that she isn’t switching careers. “Rest assured, I am not giving up my acting job. I have started football for work—I can’t reveal what it will be just yet, but it has nothing to do with Shaolin Women’s Soccer,” she said, referring to the rumoured sequel to Stephen Chow’s 2001 classic comic film Shaolin Soccer that was announced last year