Lai Hau Hei

Lai Hau Hei
Personal information
Full name Lai Hau Hei
Date of birth (1995-01-19) 19 January 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth Hong Kong
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, Defender
Team information
Current team
 Happy Valley
Youth career
2011–2012 Pegasus
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2015 Rangers 17 (1)
2015–2017 Yuen Long 14 (0)
2017–2019 Dreams 23 (0)
2019–2020 Yuen Long 4 (0)
2020–2021 Icanfield 11 (0)
2021– Happy Valley 0 (0)
International career‡
2012–2013 Hong Kong U-18 8 (2)
2015–2016 Hong Kong U-21 2 (0)
2017 Hong Kong U-22 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 September 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 July 2017

Lai Hau Hei (Chinese: 黎厚希; born 19 January 1995 in Hong Kong) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays for Hong Kong First Division club Happy Valley.

Early life

Lai was born and raised in Yuen Long, an area in the northwest of Hong Kong.

Club career

During his youth, Lai trained in football with Pegasus which were then based on Tin Shui Wai.

Lai was offered his first contract in professional football by Rangers with whom he signed with in 2012. Lau made his professional debut on 2 September 2012 in a 5–1 Senior Shield loss to Citizen.[1] He scored his first professional goal on 13 April 2015 in the 2014–15 Hong Kong FA Cup win over South China.[2]

In 2015, Lai joined his home district club of Yuen Long.

In July 2017, it was announced that Lai had moved to Dreams.[3]

On 7 August 2019, it was revealed that Lai had rejoined Yuen Long.[4]

On 16 September 2021, First Division side Happy Valley announced Lau as a player.[5]

International career

In 2016, Lai was selected to the Hong Kong U-21 squad to play in an exhibition tournament in Singapore.

In 2017, he was on the Hong Kong U-22 squad which travelled to North Korea for the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship qualification group stage. He appeared in all three of Hong Kong's matches.

References

  1. ^ "BC Rangers 1:5 Citizen". HKFA. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. ^ "東方 南華4強再鍊過". Oriental Daily. Retrieved 13 April 2015. (in Chinese)
  3. ^ "陳偉豪加盟夢想FC做隊長". on.cc. Retrieved 26 July 2017. (in Chinese)
  4. ^ "東方龍獅友賽大炒佳聯元朗". on.cc. Retrieved 7 August 2019. (in Chinese)
  5. ^ "Welcome to Happy Valley - 黎厚". Happy Valley. Facebook. Retrieved 16 September 2021. (in Chinese)