‘Team from the national team’… Lee Young -jik, Lim Min -hyuk, FC Anyang and Busan New Uniform

(MHN Reporter Lee Joo -hwan) K -League 1 FC Anyang and K -League 2 Busan I -Park exchanged midfielder Lee Young -jik and Lim Min -hyuk in a match.

The two clubs announced on the 27th that Lee Young -jik, 34, a North Korean national team, wore a Busan uniform and 28 -year -old midfielder Lim Min -hyuk will transfer to Anyang. As a result, Busan will be the third North Korean national player in the club’s history following Ahn Young -hak and Ahn Byung -jun.

Li Young -jik, a Japanese -American point from Osaka, Japan, has been a professional career since the 2013 J -League, and scored 23 A -matches in the 2015 and 2019 Asian Football Federation (AFC) Asian Cup. In 2014, Incheon Asian Games also contributed to winning silver medals.

Lee Young -jik, who joined Anyang in the 2023 season, led the team’s championship and K -League promotion with 3 goals and 1 assist in 29 games in K -League 2, and this year, he played in 14 games in K -League 1.

On the other hand, Lim Min -hyuk, who wore Anyang uniforms, made his debut in FC Seoul in 2016 and went through Gwangju FC and Gyeongnam FC. So far, he has scored 12 goals and 10 assists in 177 games in the K -League, and he has played 16 games in K -League 2 this season.

Lim Min-hyuk also has a career in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Korea in 2017.

The trade is interpreted as a decision to strengthen the stability and diversity of midfielder and change the strategic operation of the remaining season.

Photo = Busan I -Park, FC Anyang