Cagliari have signed young North Korean striker Han Kwang-song to their primavera team on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old has been signed to the youth squad after a successful trial and also available for the Serie A outfit’s first-team matches.<\/p>\n
Cagliari described Han as “an ambidextrous forward of great foundations; dribbling, eye for goal, and vision are his main characteristics.”<\/p>\n
Last year, Choe Song-Hyok was set to become the first North Korean to play in Serie A but was released just four months after signing contract due to suspicions 70 percent of his salary was going directly back to the government in Pyongyang.<\/p>\n
Han won the AFC U-16 Championship with North Korea in 2014 and his performance impressed international scouts at the U-17 World Cup a year later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cagliari have signed young North Korean striker Han Kwang-song to their primavera team on Friday. The 18-year-old has been signed to the youth squad after a successful trial and also available for the Serie A outfit’s first-team matches. Cagliari described Han as “an ambidextrous forward of great foundations; dribbling, eye for goal, and vision are his main characteristics.” Last year, Choe Song-Hyok was set to become the first North Korean to play in Serie A but was released just four months after signing contract due to suspicions 70 percent of his salary was going directly back to the government in Pyongyang. Han won the AFC U-16 Championship with North Korea … Continue reading “Han Kwang-song becomes the first North Korean to play in Serie A”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[483,482,446,201],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","tag-cagliari","tag-han-kwang-song","tag-north-korea","tag-serie-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}