Started By
Message

re: Heung-Ming Son's career could end in two years (Updated)

Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:54 am to
Posted by Bottom9
Arsenal Til I Die
Member since Jul 2010
21846 posts
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:54 am to
quote:

This didn’t happen with Park Ji-Sung did it?



I think the dude explains it in the post on Reddit. I want to say it's because they got out of the group stages in 2002 when they weren't expected to. Something along those lines.
Posted by McCaigBro69
TigerDroppings Premium Member
Member since Oct 2014
45095 posts
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:02 pm to
quote:

I think the dude explains it in the post on Reddit. I want to say it's because they got out of the group stages in 2002 when they weren't expected to. Something along those lines.


Yes. South Korea hosted and they weren’t expected to advance. Once the team did, it was considered a great athletic feat and the Country granted exemption for the players not embarrassing the country on a world stage.

The reddit post goes into further detail, but I didn’t want to load the OP down with even more text.
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 1Next pagelast page
refresh

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookTwitterInstagram