Gold medal winners. Image courtesy of ibausu on Flickr.
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Perhaps the happiest fans in the world this weekend were in Hong Kong. The special administrative region of China, as I guess we should formally call it, has been competing in international football for sixty years, andyesterday won its first ever title, a gold medal in the East Asian Games football tournament.
A capacity crowd of over 40,000 watched the hosts, consisting largely of amateurs from the Hong Kong league, beat Japan 4-2 on penalty kicks, after a 1-1 draw.









