Youth: Barcelona close in on Korean Messi?
According to Catalan sports paper ‘Sport‘ Barcelona has agreed to sign South Korean starlet Sheng Ho Park (13). The 13-year-old has been labelled as the ‘Korean Messi’ in his homeland.The player has caught the attention of Barcelona scouts in a tournament held last year. Sheng Ho has been training with Barcelona over the last few days at Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper.
The young Korean who is beleived to have caught the attention of Barcelona first team assistant Manager Tito Vilanova (Read more here), has already signed a sponsership contact with Nike.
According to the report Barcelona have beaten a number of clubs for his signature including Barca’s La Liga rivals Real Madrid. The striker has impressed in the training with Barcelona and some Barca managers have even said they havent seen anything like this in the past years.
According to the report, Barcelona have reached an agreement with the young striker and his family and he will move to Barcelona in the next summer.
it's done ?
I don't know why Real Madrid is interested in signing him… this kid will never get a chance to break into the first team through their youth system.
Oh!!… is there any video on this kid?
No unfortunately.
anyway I think he will join the cadet B team next season and if he is that good there be too many videos for him after he joins Barcelona.
I trust the pro Barca scouts they are the best in their business. It would be nice to have an asian player for a change.
Yes an asian in the team! =P
I hope he develop great and be a regular starter for us in idk how many years
man..koreans are on the rise! they are taking over japanese..
hiei, you are asian-dutch right?
Im fully chinese lol – born there,
but I live in Holland and I carry the Dutch nationality.
i hpe we get the one from messi home town 2
i hope not because his father sees him s his meal ticket
hey nick you cant say that did u say the same about messi?? the barca scouts are among the best in the world and they must see some great potential in this kid and barca with their excellent academy will help him develop his potential also having an asian wil boost the image and income of barca in that part of the world
we have stop labelling these great potentials as "messis". too much pressure. thats whats happeing with asulin. let him be the new assulin and sheng ho the new sheng ho
Gai Assulin is overrated. I've seen him first hand, and he's no good. I think Barca should sell him, while he's worth something. All the youth coaches who have coached him along with others have put likes of Thiago, JDS, Bojan, Rochina and others above Gai. While Gai should improve, he's nowhere near Barca's level, and isn't anywhere close to Messi!
Really? Cause Guardiola said when he called him up recently it was because he deserved to be in the first team and Gai is refered to as the crown jewel of La Masia. Arsenal and a host of other clubs were after him since he is out of contract in the summer. You must be the greatest talent scout in the world. Also none of those other players you have called play Gai's position so how can they be ahead of him?
My guess is that you dont like gai because he is israeli just as there are those that dont like Bojan because of his father.
hmmm maybe some people like him only because he is one …
dont care where he from i just care about what he showed in barca and this is not enough …
Yeah because we have a huge jewish community here right?
LOL! Ignorance is a bliss. While I'm not Israeli, I happen to be Jewish. What has nationality have to do with anything? Stupid idiot!
Well I will say this, if you are the only one that thinks gai is not good enough maybe you better inform all the coaching staff, pep and the other clubs around europe, cause right now you are the only one who knows this. And why would we sell him? He is out of contract in 4 months. He would just leave for free if we dont think he is good enough. Lets see what happens
I saw Gai in person and he sucked ass.
Wow! 13 year old? Still got long way to go. I think it's cool to have talents from all over the world. Good luck kid! If this in any way become true, we are soooo going to sell a lot of shirts!
yes barcelona4ever true but we need to have more scouts pickin up more hot talent al over we need to have like foundations in different countries like eto has 1 we can av 1 from mali ivory coast n especialy europe n n south america
young talent we need them for all positions
You know he's a smart kid 'cause he's wearing Laser Is.
Anyways, if he's good then I don't see any reason not to take him. He should start learning Castellano and maybe even Catalan now before he makes the move.
Here's a link to a video, not entirely sure if it's Sheng Ho Park, though…
http://qtv.freechal.com/Movie/QTVMovieView.asp?do…
I've also noted that some call him Baek Seung-ho and not Park Sheng Ho
yes you are right but his familly name is paik not park
his name is paik seung-ho !!!!! and i am sure about this !!!!!
I'm Korean and I heard a good deal about this kid since 2 years ago. The boy's name is Baek Seung-ho. His father is currently a professor in the Department of Physical Education of Yonsei University (one of top three unis in S.Korea) and used to be a tennis player in high school. Lee Hoi-taek, current Vice-President of the Korean Football Association(KFA), commented last year about Baek that he is a once-in-a-century player(of course, in context of Korean football). Last year Baek scored 30 goals in 18 matches in the Korean Elementary Youth League, scored 10 goals in 6 matches winning his team the 2009 Hwarang Championship(domestic youth tourney) and also won top scorer in the 2009 Spring Term Korean Football Federation Elementary Youth Championship. As of now Baek's height is 146cm, 100 meter dash is 13.2 seconds.
nice. tkam sa mi da dude
Interesting information. Good to know.
13.2 sec 100m for 13 year old is fast.
this is supposedly him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-t4I5euEcE
crazy skillz
This is Korean Messi… relevant action pictures have surfaced.
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4721/unbenannt…
jajajajajajaj its not funntat all
Too late methinks. We should signT the new Baek Seoung-ho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MNARksC52Q&fe…
Above is one of Baek's games when he was in Korea. No.14, smallest player on the field. He trained with Barca for half a month in February and has briefly returned to Korea. He will leave the country on the 15th of April for Barcelona and will officially join Barca U-12 from then on.
i think it will be good for barca to snatch up American born Malaysia footballer 'wan kuzain' into their youth academy….go to youtube if wanna watch him…
Barcelona join a Japanese young player. I HOPE that Baek Join Too.