In a previous article, we have introduced 8 new stars who played in Japan in Europe, from Hisagu Ei to Ayasu Ahnbe, and the oldest of them, Kamada Daichi, is only 24 years old. However, often people mention Asian football and talk about the word "Japan and South Korea", and now that Japanese football is in full swing, how about Korean football?
In fact, behind Sun Heung-min's 90 million dominance of Asia is a potential talent gap in Korean football.
At present, the South Korean team is facing the problem of aging talent: The South Korean internationals who became famous in the 2011 Asian Cup period have all left the five major leagues and faded out of the national team because of their old age; the former rising stars are now also facing the problem of age: 29-year-old Sun Heung-min, 29-year-old Nam Tae-hee, 26-year-old Kwon Chang-hoon, 28-year-old Sun Jun-ho and Hwang Yi-su...
Japan currently has nearly 10 under-25 players playing in Europe, but what about South Korea? The answer is: 3 people.
<h1>Huang Xican 25</h1>
Huang Xican, who currently plays for Red Bull Leipzig, is relatively young, but it should be noted that in the list of rising stars who played in Europe in Japan, Takumi Minamino (26), who once partnered with Huang Xican, is not among them. Hwang Hee-chan and Bordeaux's Hwang Yoe-su are also the only two South Korean centre-forwards to play in Europe's top five top leagues, and there are few outstanding centre-forwards in South Korea.
Li Gangren 20
South Korea's offensive midfielder, who plays for Valencia, actually has a 24-year-old midfielder Huang Renfan, who plays for Rubin Kazan in the Russian Super League, but his strength is quite different compared to Lee Gang-in. Lee Gang-jin has excellent dribbling skills and plays an important offensive role in Valencia in La Liga, but unfortunately such a player is now the only one in South Korea.
<h1>Zheng Youying 21</h1>
The only South Korean player to play for Europe's top giants (owned by Bayern Munich), but Jeong Yoo-young has not yet been selected for the South Korean national team. He is a bench player at Freiburg this season, making 18 appearances on the bench and scoring 3 goals. With zheng youying's current performance, there is a high probability that he will be sold by Bayern to other teams.
Besides them, which Korean football rookies do you know?