{"id":27826,"date":"2023-06-03T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=27826"},"modified":"2023-06-03T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:53:08","slug":"persebaya-complete-signing-of-singapore-international-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/06\/03\/persebaya-complete-signing-of-singapore-international-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Persebaya Complete Signing of Singapore International Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After much speculation, Persebaya Surabaya have finally announced the signing of Singapore international Song Ui-young from recently-relegated Thai League 1 side Nongbua Pitchaya on Friday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in South Korea, Song was more recognized by Southeast Asian football fans from his time at Singaporean side Home United\/Lion City Sailors, where he made a total of 163 appearances and scored 55 goals in his 12 years there as he established himself as one of Southeast Asia&#8217;s deadliest attacking midfielders.<\/p>\n<p>A naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/01\/22\/singapores-song-land-nongbua-move\/\">Song moved to a struggling Nongbua side fighting against relegation early this year<\/a>, making only eight appearances and scoring once as he failed to prevent the Gamecocks from succumbing to the drop.<\/p>\n<p>After being previously linked with Persija Jakarta during his time at Home United, Song finally got his move to Indonesia when Persebaya snapped him up on a free following the expiration of his Nongbua contract. The 29-year old is set to become the\u00a0<em>Bajul Ijo<\/em>&#8216;s fifth foreigner for the upcoming 2023\/24 season, after the contract extensions of Sho Yamamoto, Paulo Victor, and Ze Valente as well as the return of Bruno Moreira from Greek second-tier side Niki Volos.<\/p>\n<p>With Persebaya also signing the likes of Kasim Botan, Ferdinand Sinaga, Wildan Ramdhani, Reva Adi Utama and Yohanes Kandaimu, the\u00a0<em>Bajul Ijo\u00a0<\/em>are set to secure their final foreigner for the upcoming season in the form of Serbian defender Dusan Stevanovic, with an official announcement for the former FK Vojvodina player&#8217;s signing to be made in due time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much speculation, Persebaya Surabaya have finally announced the signing of Singapore international Song Ui-young from recently-relegated Thai League 1 side Nongbua Pitchaya on Friday night. Born in South Korea, Song was more recognized by Southeast Asian football fans from his time at Singaporean side Home United\/Lion City Sailors, where he made a total of 163 appearances and scored 55 goals in his 12 years there as he established himself as one of Southeast Asia&#8217;s deadliest attacking midfielders. A naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2021, Song moved to a struggling Nongbua side fighting against relegation early this year, making only eight appearances and scoring once as he failed to prevent the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/06\/03\/persebaya-complete-signing-of-singapore-international-song\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Persebaya Complete Signing of Singapore International Song&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":25163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[91,643,512,1740,1018,108,95,2709,315],"class_list":["post-27826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-southeast-asia","tag-indonesia","tag-indonesia-liga-1","tag-liga-1","tag-liga-1-indonesia","tag-persebaya-surabaya","tag-singapore","tag-slider","tag-song-ui-young","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27827,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions\/27827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}