范俊業

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Fan Chun Yip (born 1 May 1976 in Hong Kong), nicknamed 'Piggy', is a former Hong Kong goalkeeper and later goalkeeping coach. About 1.83 m tall and noted for his positioning, reflexes and steady temperament, he captained the Hong Kong national football team and is widely regarded as one of the finest goalkeepers of his era in Asia. Most of his playing career was spent with local first-division clubs including Yu Yuen and South China. He won many caps for Hong Kong and wore the captain's armband. In 2004, in the Asian qualifying match for the World Cup between China and Hong Kong, he produced a standout display, saving several clear chances and denying China the goals they needed to advance; the match is regarded as his signature performance. The same year he was named Hong Kong Footballer of the Year, only the second goalkeeper ever to win the award. He was also selected in the league's best eleven in several seasons and was voted best goalkeeper at the East Asian Football Championship preliminaries in 2005 and 2007. Moving into coaching, Fan became a goalkeeping coach. In 2010 he was invited by the Hong Kong national team's then coach to serve as goalkeeping coach, and about a month later joined South China as both a player and goalkeeping coach. In November 2014 South China announced that it had parted company with him, noting that the club had earlier lent him to the Hong Kong team as goalkeeping coach. In recent years he has continued to train goalkeepers in Hong Kong football.