HE HANG UP HIS BOOTS AT 24 YEARS OLD
The former Barça youth player who put his career aside to join the army
A publication on the social networks of Seung Woo Lee, a former Barça youth soccer player, has revealed that he has joined the South Korean army to fulfill his military service
The FC Barcelona is recognised by the big talents that go out of his quarry, in addition to being one of the most important clubs of Spain and to world-wide level. Talents like Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Sergio Busquets have gone out of the Barcelona inferior categories, although it also is a space that has served to form the careers of a lot of footballers.
One of them is Seung Woo Lee, the one who was linked to the Barça from 2011 until 2017. The Korean gave his first steps in the Cadet To until reaching the filial of the first team, what carried him to sign his first professional agreement with the Hellas Verona in return of 1.5 million euros. However, nowadays it seems that his travesía sportive has come to an end.
In a publication in his profile of 'Instagram', the attacker of 24 years has informed that has been called to fulfil with the military service of South Korea, the one who finds in war with North Korea from seventy years ago. Although the two countries signed an armistice to leave to combat between them, both keep very active his armed forces in case that the agreement was broken.
An obligation of the Government
With this on the table, several personalities of Korea are used to to have to incorporate to the exercise at least during the minimum time stipulated. They are Heung-Min, one of the most important footballers of the Tottenham Hotspur, fulfilled with the service during the quarantine, what allowed him continue his career in the Premier. By his part, other celebrities like the musical group 'BTS' are to the expectation to fulfil with the called of the Korean Government, since they consider measures ejemplarizantes for all the young men.
