Amateur Hong Kong team have Manchester United and Barcelona in sights, after going global with Surprise Shirts link
- Apostle FC compete in the amateur SS League after being founded by Vincent Chow four years ago
- UK-based Surprise Shirts keen to promote Hong Kong football, distributing amateur team’s jerseys worldwide
An amateur football team from Hong Kong wants to crack the global merchandise market, after joining forces with the UK-based Surprise Shirts to distribute its jerseys around the world.
Vincent Chow Ming-shing, the founder of Apostle FC, contacted the firm’s young owner Louis Jones, after reading in the Post that Surprise Shirts had received an unexpected interest from Hong Kong.
Apostle compete in the part-time SS League, but have lined up a series of friendlies abroad, as the club Chow launched only four years ago aims to establish its name beyond the city’s borders.
Chow, who also plays as a winger for the team, filed an order with kit manufacturer Atacar for an additional 100 shirts, and the club’s green-and-white colours are now being worn worldwide.
Surprise Shirts sell jerseys of teams from roughly 70 per cent of the world’s nations, but customers do not know which club’s shirt will land on their doorsteps.
“I read the article about the business, and was intrigued by the young CEO [Jones],” Chow told the Post. “I contacted him, and said we wanted to show our club to the world.
