{"id":24018,"date":"2020-08-28T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=24018"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:19:11","slug":"former-port-and-suphanburi-midfielder-kim-sung-hwan-signs-for-henan-jianye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/08\/28\/former-port-and-suphanburi-midfielder-kim-sung-hwan-signs-for-henan-jianye\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Port and Suphanburi Midfielder Kim Sung-Hwan Signs for Henan Jianye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Thai League midfielder Kim Sung-Hwan, who featured for Port FC and Suphanburi, has signed for Chinese Super League side Henan Jianye.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kim signs for Henan Jianye from Chinese second-tier outfit Liaoning Shenyang Urban, where he joined in February of this year but didn&#8217;t feature due to the enforced break brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly of Seongnam FC and Ulsan Hyundai, Kim Sung-Hwan arrived in Thailand during the 2018 season to much fanfare as part of a spending spree by Bangkok based club Port FC. The South Korean was a crucial player for the side, who mounted their first title challenge in recent history<\/p>\n<p>Playing a primarily defensive role, Kim would go on to make 29 appearances for Port that season, being a consistent if unglamorous performer at the base of their midfield. The South Korean helped to anchor the defense in an incredibly attack-minded side, ultimately finishing third in the final standings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OFFICIAL | Henan Jianye have confirmed the signing of veteran midfielder Kim Sung-hwan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dd6t5XjKS0\">pic.twitter.com\/Dd6t5XjKS0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Korea Football News (@KORFootballNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KORFootballNews\/status\/1297787430968336386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Kim was replaced at the end of that season by the more dynamic Go Suel-Ki, and took his defensive solidity to Suphanburi FC. The Elephants unexpectedly found themselves in a relegation battle, but Kim helped steady the ship as they narrowly survived in the Thai League.<\/p>\n<p>Now preparing for a new challenge in China at age 33, he will be tasked with helping Henan Jianye survive in the top flight after collecting five points from their first six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Thai League midfielder Kim Sung-Hwan, who featured for Port FC and Suphanburi, has signed for Chinese Super League side Henan Jianye.\u00a0 Kim signs for Henan Jianye from Chinese second-tier outfit Liaoning Shenyang Urban, where he joined in February of this year but didn&#8217;t feature due to the enforced break brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Formerly of Seongnam FC and Ulsan Hyundai, Kim Sung-Hwan arrived in Thailand during the 2018 season to much fanfare as part of a spending spree by Bangkok based club Port FC. The South Korean was a crucial player for the side, who mounted their first title challenge in recent history Playing a primarily defensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/08\/28\/former-port-and-suphanburi-midfielder-kim-sung-hwan-signs-for-henan-jianye\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Former Port and Suphanburi Midfielder Kim Sung-Hwan Signs for Henan Jianye&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":24019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1638],"tags":[154,83,308,2254,904,95,1776,200,68,199],"class_list":["post-24018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-transfer-news","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-henan-jianye","tag-kim-sung-hwan","tag-port-fc","tag-slider","tag-suphanburi-fc","tag-thai-league","tag-thailand","tag-ulsan-hyundai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24018","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\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24059,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24018\/revisions\/24059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}