Mok Chun Wah
 Mok in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 5 May 1929 | ||
| Place of birth | British Hong Kong | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| South China | |||
| International career | |||
| Republic of China | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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| Traditional Chinese | 莫振 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 莫振华 | ||||||||||
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Mok Chun Wah (also transliterated as Mok Chun Wa, born 5 May 1929) is a former professional footballer.[1] Born in British Hong Kong to ethnic Chinese parents, Mok represented the Republic of China (Taiwan) and spending his whole professional career in the Hong Kong leagues.
Early life
[edit]On May 5, 1929, Mok was born in Hong Kong.
Club career
[edit]Mok was with Yiu Cheuk Yin and Ho Cheng Yau one of the "Three Aces" that formed the strikeforce of South China Athletic Association in the 1950s and 1960s.[2]
International career
[edit]He was part of the Republic of China (Taiwan) team that won the gold medals at the 1954 and 1958 Asian Games.[3] He scored a goal in the 1960 Olympics.[4]
Mok also represented Hong Kong Chinese[5][6] in a non-FIFA recognized match against Malayan Chinese in 1959 Ho Ho Cup;[7] in 1957, Mok also represented Hong Kong League XI in Merdeka Tournament, a friendly tournament; the team was almost entirely composed of the players of Eastern Sports Club, which was playing friendlies in the Asia-Pacific.[8] However, Mok was the only player to fly directly from Hong Kong as a non-Eastern player. That representative team, was in fact composed for 9 Hong Kong footballers that chose to represent Republic of China (Taiwan).[9] Mok was also selected to the 1961 edition as a member of Hong Kong League XI.[10]
Honours
[edit]Republic of China
- Asian Games Gold medal: 1954, 1958
References
[edit]- ^ "Mok Chun Wah". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ "'Treasure of Hong Kong Football' Yiu dies". South China Morning Post. 3 February 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ^
何 長 發 (5 June 2012).無 足 球 意識 還 談 啥大計畫 .發 哥論球 column. ETtoday (in Chinese). Eastern Broadcasting Company. Retrieved 10 July 2017. - ^ "Italy - Taiwan 4:1". FIFA. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ^ "Hong Kong keep Cup". The Straits Times. 8 June 1959. Retrieved 8 September 2017 – via Singapore National Library.
- ^ "
和 和 杯 足 球 賽 港 華 蟬聯三屆冠軍七比二擊敗馬華隊觀眾達一萬七千人". Nanyang Siang Pau (in Chinese). Singapore. 8 June 1959. Retrieved 9 September 2017 – via Singapore National Library. - ^ "Ho Ho Cup and Por Yen Cup". RSSSF. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ "Socceroo B Matches for 1957". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^
李 ,峻 嶸 (2015).足 球 王國 ：戰後 初期 的 香港 足 球 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 9789620437823. Retrieved 18 December 2017 – via Google Books preview. - ^
足 總 補選 兩 將 赴默迪 卡作賽 . Wah Kiu Yat Po (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong. 15 July 1961. p. 12 – via Hong Kong Public Libraries.
External links
[edit]- Mok Chun Wah – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mok Chun Wah". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
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- 1929 births
- Living people
- Hong Kong men's footballers
- Taiwanese men's footballers
- South China AA players
- Hong Kong First Division League players
- Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 1954 Asian Games
- Footballers at the 1958 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Olympic footballers for Taiwan
- Chinese Taipei men's international footballers
- Chinese Taipei men's international footballers from Hong Kong
- Asian Games medalists in football
- Men's association football forwards