{"id":12888,"date":"2018-05-06T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=12888"},"modified":"2018-05-06T22:50:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:50:25","slug":"lee-seung-woo-becomes-the-first-korean-player-to-score-in-serie-a-in-the-past-5943-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/06\/lee-seung-woo-becomes-the-first-korean-player-to-score-in-serie-a-in-the-past-5943-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Seung-woo becomes the first Korean player to score in Serie A in the last 5,943 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>written by Chang-hoon Oh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On May 5, AC Milan defeated Hellas Verona 4:1 at San Siro. Hellas Verona have mathematically been relegated along with Benevento.<\/p>\n<p>The only consolation came from the 20-year-old Korean who pulled one back with a volley. It was Lee&#8217;s first goal for Hellas Verona.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Barcelona youngster Lee joined the newly promoted Verona this season. As Verona were in a slump, however, the team could not afford to give the 20-year-old opportunities. Lee made a debut against Lazio in September last year, but could not find his place on the field in the following months.<\/p>\n<p>April was a turning point for Lee. Korea&#8217;s rising star has shown a decent performance every time he plays; and\u00a0on 224th day since his debut, Lee finally bagged a late consolation.<\/p>\n<p>It has been 5,943 days since a Korean player scored in Serie A. The only other Korean player who played in Serie A was 2002 World Cup legend Ahn Jung-hwan. Ahn&#8217;s last goal came on January 27, 2002 against Verona. 16 years and three months later, Lee has become the second player to put his name on the scoreboard in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Though the team will not stay in the first division, the fact that Lee scored before relegation could be a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>written by Chang-hoon Oh On May 5, AC Milan defeated Hellas Verona 4:1 at San Siro. Hellas Verona have mathematically been relegated along with Benevento. The only consolation came from the 20-year-old Korean who pulled one back with a volley. It was Lee&#8217;s first goal for Hellas Verona. Ex-Barcelona youngster Lee joined the newly promoted Verona this season. As Verona were in a slump, however, the team could not afford to give the 20-year-old opportunities. Lee made a debut against Lazio in September last year, but could not find his place on the field in the following months. April was a turning point for Lee. Korea&#8217;s rising star has shown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/06\/lee-seung-woo-becomes-the-first-korean-player-to-score-in-serie-a-in-the-past-5943-days\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Lee Seung-woo becomes the first Korean player to score in Serie A in the last 5,943 days&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":12890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[846],"class_list":["post-12888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-players-in-europe","tag-lee-seung-woo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}