On 20 May, Senior Research Manager Alex Mak and Researchers Joyce Chan and Rainbow Lam met with HKFA Technical Director John Morling, Head of Elite Youth Takuro Hosaka, Women’s Youth Representative Team Coach Vinco Ng, and Public Relations and Events Manager Ada Li. The discussion primarily focused on the Hong Kong football ecosystem, particularly the pathway for young people to become professional players in Hong Kong, which provided valuable insights for the team’s ongoing research on sports professionalism.