On the evening of the 30th Beijing time, The La Liga Mallorca Club officially announced the signing of South Korean star Li Gangren, who has just terminated his contract with Valencia. Coupled with the fact that the team has already loaned Japanese demon star Kenei Kubo from Real Madrid, these two young talents of Japanese and Korean football will become teammates in la Liga in the new season. The Japanese media even used the adjective of "Japan and Korea's most precious treasure". Although in recent years, Japanese and Korean players have been commonplace in Europe, but the scene of Japanese and Korean players as teammates is indeed not so common, we may wish to take a brief inventory.
Kubo Kenyo & Odd Makoto Dortmund
This is Kubo's second loan spell in Mallorca, where he played as early as the 2019-2020 season, but at the end of that season the team was relegated and he had to leave the team. It is worth mentioning that Kubo Kenying seems to be very close to Korean players, and in the second half of that season, he used to be a teammate with a Korean player. That is the former South Korean national team captain Ki Sung-yong. In the winter window of the 2019-2020 season, Qi Chengyong left the English football world that he had played for nearly 8 years and signed a short contract with Mallorca, who was deeply relegated at the time, for half a season. However, at the end of the season, the former South Korean captain only made one league appearance for the team, did not meet the conditions for renewal, and left the team.
However, although there was only a few months of teammate friendship, Kubo Kenei still left a deep impression on Qi Chengyong. In an interview with the Japanese media football-zone, the latter once said: "When I heard that Kubo Kenei was only 18 years old, I was very surprised. Compared to my 18-year-old, I was not a level player at all, and when I was 18, I didn't even know what I was going to do on the field. ”
Shinji Kagawa & Park Joo-ho Dortmund
Shinji Kagawa, japan's former no. 10 core player, once left a brilliant record at Borussia Dortmund. In the summer of 2014, after a two-year manchester United career, he chose to return to his old club Dortmund. A year later, a South Korean midfielder also joined the Hornets, and he was Park Joo-ho. With their outstanding performances in Mainz, Dortmund handed the international midfielder an olive branch, and Dortmund also appeared "Japan-South Korea combination".
The beginning of the 2015-2016 season was the highlight of the Japanese-Korean pair. In the Europa League group stage that season, Park Joo-ho made his debut at Dortmund, contributing a pass and a shot to help the team beat Krasnodar. In that match, Shinji Kagawa came on as a substitute in the second half and joined Park Joo-ho in helping the team win. The good news is that neither Shinji Kagawa nor Park Joo-ho was able to maintain a high level of competition at Dortmund for a long time, and the results of the Hornets in those years were relatively undulating, although they reasonably helped the team win the German Cup, but in the end the Japanese-Korean combination could not be combined. The duo left the team in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Makoto Hasebe & Kushizhe Wolfsburg
Japan's former captain Makoto Hasebe is currently the Asian player who has played the longest and made the most appearances in the Bundesliga. The superb and handsome star, although he is 37 years old, still represents Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga in the new season. As we all know, Makoto Hasebe's Bundesliga career began in Wolfsburg and in 2009 he followed the team to win the Bundesliga title. In 2011, a South Korean midfielder joined Wolfsburg, and he was Gu Ji-chul. The two major midfielders of Japan and South Korea come together.
Since Gu Zizhe was loaned to Augsburg in the 2012-2013 season, and Makoto Hasebe left Wolfsburg in the summer of 2013 to move to Nuremberg, the two team-mates spent only one season. However, they still left a good impression on each other. Many years later, Gu Zizhe recalled: "Hasebe Makoto is a very famous star in South Korea, in addition to Park Ji-sung, among the players I have worked with, the player I have worked with the most is Hasebe Makoto. "In the not very long career of teammates, the two have been roommates, naturally know more than other teammates," he and Park Ji-sung have a lot of similarities, as long as he stands on the field, he has never shown a sense of timidity. What I admire most about him is that after each game he will seriously summarize and try to make up for it on the training ground the next day. I also learned a lot from him. ”
In addition, Kushizhe has also been a teammate in Mainz and Yoshiki Muto.
Takushi Minamino & Hee Chan Red Bull Salzburg
In the 2019-2020 Champions League group stage, the Red Bull Salzburg team that made a big fuss at Anfield was impressive. At that time, the team's offensive tridents - Takushi Minamino, Huang Xican and Haland became famous in one game. Soon after, the three men parted ways, each joining a different club, and their career development also had a different trajectory. However, as representatives of Japanese and Korean players, Takushi Minamino and Huang Xican brought enough glory to the Austrian banba team.
In the new season, they have another chance to meet. Takumi Minamino is not seeking a transfer and intends to stay at Liverpool to continue to wait for opportunities. Huang Xican, who previously had limited opportunities in Leipzig, joined the Premier League Wolves on loan, and the two main attackers of the Japanese and South Korean national teams have the opportunity to compete in the same game, but this time it will be their own master.
Text/Supine Braces - Yangyuan Zhang