Friday, February 6, 2009

Yu Young-nam, the first Korean for Japan Top League Final





Young-nam (Dankook Uni-Sangmu-Sanyo) will be the first Korean player for the Japanese Top League final this year with the first record of playing all the consecutive 13 matches.

To have such the honor, he had to go through obstacles and biases toward Koreans in Japan and compete not only with Japanese players but Kiwis and Aussies as a foreign player.

The moment when he started overcoming such difficuties and winning recognition was the Asian Five Nations match against Japan.
I am sure that he will be repesenting Korea at the A5N this year (Home games: April 25th Singapore/May 9th Hongkong) and hopefully for the match against England Counties (June 5th).
And I hope he gives his impressions of the final match to our blog visitors soon.

-2001 Korea U-19 team-
Please cheer for him to raise the Top-league trophy on Sunday!

2 comments:

TouchnTagnRugby said...

brilliant article...wish I could stay in Japan until tomorrow to watch!

trowel said...

What a nice play~
It's my first visitation on this blog.
I had a chance to play touch rugby at Adelaide, Australia 2000.
Thanks for goog information about Korea rugby~
And cheers mate, Choi~