Chan Yuen-ting: the female coach who took a men’s team to a national title

Chan Yuen Ting

Perhaps the biggest story of the football year is in east Asia, where Eastern won the Hong Kong Premier League title in April. The wait since the last championship had been 21 years but the headlines were all about the 27 year-old head coach Chan Yuen-ting.

Just days after lifting the trophy, she was presented with another prize. This time it came from the Guinness Book of World Records, for being the first woman to win a top-flight title in men’s professional football.  More