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KITCHEE AND TUNG CHI YING SCHOOL
ESTABLISH PRO FOOTBALL ACADEMY PROGRAM
Kitchee and Yan Chai Hospital Tung Chi Ying Memorial Secondary School will start taking on secondary school students for a European-style football academy.
The local professional football team, Kitchee established a free-of-charge elite training school for children starting at age 6 with FC Barcelona in 2008. Today, Kitchee and TCY have jointly announced the “Professional Footballer Preparatory Program”, with a purpose to implement an educational infrastructure to produce professional football players for Hong Kong.
Mr. Kevin Kobayashi, President and CEO, Canon Hongkong Co. Limited, speaking in his capacity as Kitchee’s major sponsor since 2004, remarked that the Club’s association with the Spanish giant has indeed progressed from strength to strength in the last 2 years and this new effort to establish a football academy program is monumental for the future of Hong Kong football. “Canon shares the same core values with FC Barcelona’s and Kitchee’s youth development program. The search for excellence, both in academics and in football training, will be the foundation of this new program, known as the Professional Footballer Preparatory Program (or the PFP Program), in short,” he said.
Mr. Wong, Chief Executive, Yan Chai Hospital Board, further emphasized the dual purpose of the program and said, “We believe in the development of the whole person for our students. The curriculum and the coaches from Spain will create a football training program which will motivate our students in the PFP Program to excel in academics as well as in discipline.”
The Program is an extension of the FCBEscola Hong Kong model, with an extended football curriculum taught in 6 2-hour sessions per week within the secondary school system. Mr. Stuart Fraser, CEO of Fortis Insurance (Asia) Limited, remarked, “When Fortis first agreed to become the Premier Sponsor for FCBEscola Hong Kong, we have been looking forward to helping Kitchee to develop professional players for the future. I am happy to note that Kitchee has continued its commitment to offer no-cost football training to the talented young players in secondary school, just as our award-winning collaboration of FCBEscola Hong Kong.”
Dr. Tang Kam Hung, the School Supervisor of the Tung Chi Ying School, pointed to the past success of the Tung Chi Ying School, with 5 of the East Asian Games Gold Medalists being the school’s alumni, including Au Yang Yiu Chung and Ip Chun Long. “Our school has agreed to make a bold step towards the future. Our Program will progress from an extra-curricular program to a profession-preparatory one. We will ensure that students in the PFP Program will be ready to become a professional player upon secondary school education.”
In addition to the full secondary school curriculum, the Program also offers international playing tours as part of its football curriculum, at no additional costs to the students. The Program shall also include a co-op apprenticeship program, under which the students will be assigned to participating clubs or District Teams. Every participating member of the Hong Kong Football Association, including Kitchee, will only be allowed to take on no more than 5 apprentices per Form to ensure that the players play regularly under a competitive environment. Mr. Wilson Wong, Chairman of the HKFA Youth Development Taskforce, pointed out that this makes the Program beneficial to Hong Kong football as a whole and welcome Kitchee’s efforts to put the interests of the students above that of the Club.
The application forms of the Program will be available from the website www.ychtcy.edu.hk from 17 May, 2010. All candidates for admission will undergo a selection process conduct by FC Barcelona and Kitchee coaches in the second half of June.
The detailed document describing the PFP Program is available in Chinese and English on the same website today.
For further enquires, please kindly contact Ms Jessica Ng at 2838-9326 or 9188-5521.
About Canon Hongkong Company Limited
Canon Inc. (TSE:7751 / NYSE:CAJ) was founded in 1937 in Japan. Its predecessor, Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, produced Japan's first 35 mm focal-plane-shutter camera in 1934, called the Kwanon. Canon Inc. eventually expanded into the photocopying and printing industries, launching Japan’s first plain-paper copier in 1970 and the world's first inkjet printer in 1985. With over 70 years of experience in imaging products manufacturing, Canon’s global revenue currently stands at US$34.9 billion (as of 31 December 2009). The extensive resources it devotes to research and development has made Canon one of the U.S. imaging industry’s top technology patent-holders, and the only manufacturer across the globe to offer both input and output device solutions to the world’s various imaging needs.
Established in 1971, Canon Hongkong Company Limited (CHK) responsibles for sales, marketing and services of all Canon product lines in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, Taiwan, the Philippines and Mongolia, including its digital cameras, digital video camcorders, printers, copiers, scanners, projectors and other imaging merchandise. CHK adheres to Canon’s corporate philosophy, kyosei, which in essence motivates the company with its staff to proactively strive for harmonious coexistence with other citizens through participation in various social, charitable and environmental activities. From year 2005, the Hong Kong Council of Social Service has awarded CHK the Caring Company Logo in recognizing CHK’s continuous efforts contributed to the local community. Furthermore, CHK also endeavours to adopt internationally recognized management systems, having become certified in conformance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 in 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively. CHK is certified to COPC-2000? CSP Standard in 2006.
Being a responsible manufacturer, Canon leads to be the first in global to set up its own Canon Toner Cartridge Recycle Factory located in Japan, China, U.S. and France since 1990 to make sure all collected toner cartridges are utilize as reused parts in new products. Up to year 2009, Canon has reduced the use of new resources by 110,000 tons and CO2 emission by 310,000 tons. Likewise, CHK from 2008 has established Ink Cartridge Collection boxes placed in voluntary schools, shopping malls, computer centres and commercial buildings. All used cartridges collected will be delivered to factory for decomposition and recycling as materials of other products. | |
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