Shopee Cup a symbol of Asean unity
KUALA LUMPUR: The Asean Club Championship Shopee Cup Trophy Tour will conclude its five-stop journey around Southeast Asia with visits to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and Sunday respectively as the region’s premier club competition celebrates its return to action.
Representatives of Terengganu and Kuala Lumpur City will appear on Sunday (Jan 12) at the Vanity Atrium in Sunway Velocity Mall, with proceedings starting at 11am and concluding at 5pm.
Players, including Safawi Rasid, Manny Ott and Declan Lambert, will be present from 3pm until 4pm.
Star players from Lion City Sailors, including Shawal Anwar, Hariss Harun and Song Ui-young, will be in attendance in Singapore with the event running from 11am until 5pm on Saturday.
Meet-and-greets will be held from 12.30pm until 1.30pm at the 2nd level event atrium.
The regional championship, featuring club sides from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have returned to action.
The Shopee Cup, handcrafted by world-renowned trophy makers Thomas Lyte, will be on display during the event and fans will have the opportunity to view and be photographed with the silverware.
Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are the final stops for the tour, which kicked off in Hanoi in August before visiting Bangkok and Jakarta in September.
The trophy was crafted to bring to life the Shopee Cup logo, which was inspired by the rice sheaf that is synonymous with Asean and embodies the unity of its dynamic member nations as ten bushels of rice bound together.
Weighing just under 13kg and measuring 28.6cm tall and 43cm wide at the lip of the bowl, the Cup trophy symbolizes the strong bond and unity among the Asean member nations, combined with their spirit of competition.
