This frame captures the highlights of the 2018 Xiamen University College of Foreign Languages Foreign Language Cup soccer match, featuring none other than Mr. Simon Li, who stepped down as head of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
After leaving office, Li's greatest pleasure is nothing more than the freedom of kicking a soccer ball, and his life is as tightly connected as three lines: company, court and home. There are reports that he plays five games a week, but Li denied it, claiming that he can play six games a week. He reveals that he has 30 to 40 golfers, most of them young and talented, and because of the prevalent overtime culture, the court is mostly open at 9:30 pm. Recently, he went to Singapore to participate in activities, but also find local friends to play four games.
Soccer is a part of his life. In his early media career, he wrote a piece on Chinese soccer's black whistles but failed to publish it, and in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, he flew to Seoul to witness the Chinese men's soccer team's struggles and was thrilled beyond words. Although the Chinese men's soccer team made it to the final round, they failed to score a goal. After the last match against Turkey, he sighed softly in the stands that he would see you again in four years, to which a fan he didn't know responded: What four years? See you in twenty years.
Twenty years later, the Chinese men's soccer team still has no connection with the World Cup. In the face of reporters, Li Xiaoga responded with a bitter smile: buddy said too accurate.
During his tenure at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Li needed to play the triple role of manager, official and reformer, claiming that the three hats do not leave his body. In the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, wearing hats is obviously not appropriate. Now, he has devoted himself to entrepreneurship, life has become easy, and continue to perform his hat trick on the soccer field.
