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Lai Lok Yin

Hong Kong football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ21042805 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lai Lok Yin (Chinese: 黎洛賢; born 20 July 1995 in Hong Kong) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a winger.

Club career

In 2015, Lai joined Dreams Metro Gallery.

On 5 December 2015, Lai scored his first goal for Metro Gallery against Wong Tai Sin in a 2–0 victory.

Following the announcement of Metro Gallery's hiatus, Lai became a free agent. He joined Pegasus at the conclusion of his contract on 30 June 2016. On 11 June 2017, HK Pegasus chairperson Canny Leung revealed that Lai would be leaving the club.

He was not out of work for long as two weeks later, Lai signed with Rangers.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lai Lok Yin” is hong Kong football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hong, Kong and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2015, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-07-20. For this dossier, Hong, Kong and football is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “hong Kong football player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21042805. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lai Lok Yin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.