North Korean sports expert “Han Kwang-seong is going back to North Korea”
Advancement to the most prestigious Juventus, failing to participate due to sanctions
Transferred to Alduhail, Qatar and returned to Korea
Reporter Park Dae-ro = North Korean football team striker Han Kwang-seong, who has been active on the overseas stage, called’North Korea’s Ronaldo’, returns to North Korea due to international sanctions against North Korea.
Marco Bagochi, an Italian sports expert in North Korea, said in an interview with the Voice of the United States on the 27th, “The North Korean soccer team striker Han Kwang-sung cannot find an overseas team that can play due to the international sanctions against North Korea and returns to North Korea.”
Bagochi said Malaysia’s Selangor FC and Han Kwang Sung’s original team, Qatar Alduhaiil, negotiated for a lease agreement, but it was not successful.”
He said, “Han Kwang-seong has not yet entered North Korea due to the aftermath of Corona 19,” he said. “I plan to enter through China soon.”
Born in Pyongyang in 1998, Kwang-Sung Han entered the Pyongyang International Football School, which was established in 2013 to cultivate elite soccer players during the early days of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean Labor Party general secretary.
Han Kwang-sung won the Asian Football Federation (AFC) U-16 Championship in Thailand in 2014, beating South Korea 2-1 and leading North Korea’s victory. In 2015, the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile led North Korea to advance to the round of 16. In 2016, he was named the 50 best football prospects born in 1998 by the British Guardian with Lee Seung-woo of Korea.
Han Kwang-Sung entered the Italian stage in 2015. Han Kwang-seong, who has been in the Italian professional football Cagliari Calcio youth team since 2015, joined the Serie A (1st division) Cagliari 1st Army in March 2017. In September 2019, he transferred to Juventus, the prestigious Italian Serie A and one of Europe’s strongest professional teams.
Like Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the best soccer players in the world, Han Kwang-seong, who enjoys a violent breakthrough, was nicknamed North Korean Ronaldo. Han Kwang-seong also shocked the Korean soccer world. After Park Ji-sung left Manchester United in England in 2012, there were no Korean soccer players who played for the best European team. At that time, Son Heung-min’s skill was not in full bloom as it is now, so Korean soccer fans looked toward Han Gwang-seong with envy and jealousy.
In addition, Han Kwang-sung took the opportunity to play with’Real Ronaldo’. This is because Ronaldo transferred to Juventus from Real Madrid in 2018. However, sanctions against North Korea caught Han Gwang-seong.
In resolution 2397 adopted on December 22, 2017, the UN Security Council (Security Council) recommended that the foreign currency earned by North Korean foreign workers be used for North Korean nuclear tests and ballistic missile development, and that they should be returned to their home country within 24 months. An expert panel of the North Korean Sanctions Committee under the Security Council said that not only ordinary workers but also sports players who are active in overseas leagues are subject to sanctions.
Amid sanctions against North Korea, Han Kwang-seong transferred to Qatar’s Alduhail SC in January last year without even playing a game in the Juventus 1st team. As sanctions against North Korea continued, Alduhail released Hankwangseong Fortress in September of the same year. Eventually, Han Kwang-sung returned to North Korea without finding his team on the overseas stage.
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