Footballer Matt Orr, a regular in the Hong Kong side since 2021, made headlines in 2023 when he scored the goal that took the team to the quarter-finals of the Asian Games for the first time since 1958. The striker, known as “Hong Kong’s Cristiano Ronaldo”, started his career with the local club Kitchee, before switching to Guangxi Pingguo Haliao and then Chinese Super League club Shenzhen Peng City.