‘North Korea Ronaldo’ Han Kwang-sung goes home to sanctions against North Korea… Park Kwang-ryong and Choi Sung-hyuk already released

[이데일리 김미경 기자] It is known that Han Kwang-seong, a North Korean soccer player who was playing for an overseas soccer team, will return to North Korea. It is argued that it could not find a team that could play due to international sanctions against North Korea. Han Gwang-seong has been called the North Korean’Ronal Doo’ as a striker for the North Korean soccer team.

The Voice of the United States (VOA) reported on the 27th, citing Italian North Korean sports expert Marco Bagochi.

According to Bagochi, Han Kwang-sung played for Alduhail, Qatar’s soccer team last year, but was released due to sanctions against North Korea and could not find a new team abroad. He said that Malaysia’s Selangor FC and the original team, Qatar Alduhaiil, had negotiated a lease for a lease, but it was eventually misfired.

Kwang-seong Han, a North Korean soccer player who played in Alduhail, Qatar (Photo = Twitter capture of Alduhail Club/Yonhap News).

Han Kwang-seong has not yet been able to enter North Korea in the aftermath of Corona 19, and it is said that he will enter North Korea through China sooner or later.

Alduhail paid a transfer fee worth KRW 6.4 billion to Serie A Juventus in Italy in January of last year and recruited Han Kwang-sung. It is known that the contract was originally signed with Alduhail until June 30, 2024, but the name of Han Kwangsung was excluded from the ‘2020 Player List’ that Alduhail posted on Instagram account in September 2020.

As a result, all three North Korean soccer players who were subject to international sanctions against North Korea were expelled from the overseas stage. Earlier, in a report in March of last year, an expert panel of the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee on North Korea pointed out that soccer players playing in European leagues, including Han Kwang-sung, Park Gwang-ryong and Choi Sung-hyuk, should be designated as foreign currency workers and repatriated to North Korea.

Park Kwang-ryong was released from his team, Sankt Puten, because he did not extend his work permit visa in Austria in August last year. Choi Sung-hyuk, who played for US Arezzo in Italy, also appears to have left the team after the contract expires in January last year, but the current situation is unknown.