Cheng Siu Wai
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cheng Siu Wai | ||
| Date of birth | 27 December 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Yuen Long, Hong Kong | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Deep-lying Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2003 | Double Flower | 9 | (5) |
| 2003–2004 | Rangers (HKG) | 16 | (1) |
| 2004–2009 | South China | 61 | (8) |
| 2008–2009 | → HK Pegasus (loan) | 19 | (3) |
| 2009–2011 | Kitchee | 33 | (3) |
| 2011–2012 | Sun Hei | 17 | (6) |
| 2012–2013 | Kitchee | 11 | (2) |
| 2013–2017 | Eastern | 26 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007–2012 | Hong Kong | 15 | (7) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 June 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 May 2017 |
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Cheng Siu Wai (Chinese: 鄭少偉; Jyutping: zeng6 siu3 wai5, born 27 December 1981, Hong Kong) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer player whose position was striker. His shirt name was Henry.
Cheng Siu Wai is born to a Hong Kong father and a Thai mother. They separated when he was a young boy, his mother returned to Thailand and he grew up in a single parent family in a housing estate in Sheung Shui. There was a 5-a-side football field at the estate and he started playing there since primary school.
He finished his studies after reaching form 3. He was working as an electrician and playing amateur football in Yuen Long, when he was asked if he wanted to play football as a professional. He is popularly known as Henry because of his uncanny physical resemblance to the French striker.
Cheng Siu Wai made his Hong Kong First Division League debut in 2002 with Double Flower. He scored his first goal on the same day with a volley at Mong Kok Stadium.
Cheng Siu Wai was released by Buler Rangers one month before the end of the 2004–05 Hong Kong First Division League season because he failed to reach the club's expectations.
When Cheng Siu Wai first joined South China, his monthly salary was only HK$4,000 (approx US$500). By the time he left in 2008, it went up to HK$11,000 (approx US$1,375). Because of his difficult financial situation, he lived in the club's quarters and only returned home once a week.
He was a member of the squad that got South China relegated at the end of the 2005–06 Hong Kong First Division League season. But the club was retained in the first division upon Steven Lo's appointment as the club's convener.
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