[한국강사신문 한상형 기자] According to Yonhap News, the possibility of Jo Gyu-seong (age 25, Jeonbuk), a striker of the national soccer team, joining the German professional soccer team Mainz has been raised.
The British newspaper Evening Standard reported on the 7th that “Korean striker Cho Kyu-sung will choose to move to Germany’s Mainz instead of Scotland’s Celtic in the transfer market this month.”
Cho Kyu-seong played an active part in last year’s FIFA World Cup Qatar World Cup group stage match once morest Ghana, scoring two goals alone.
Cho Kyu-seong, who scored two goals in the World Cup, recorded 2.5 million euros (approximately 3.35 billion won) in the transfer fee estimate as of December last year by Transfermarkt, a European soccer media outlet.
This is an amount that has increased by 1.47 billion won in Korean money in just one month compared to 1.4 million euros in November last year, before the World Cup.
The media predicted that “Mainz is ahead of the Scottish Celtic or American teams in the competition to recruit Cho Kyu-sung.”
Mainz has national soccer team midfielder Lee Jae-seong (30).
The Evening Standard said, “Jeonbuk’s technical director Park Ji-sung, who played as a player for Manchester United, is currently negotiating a transfer in London, England.” “he said.
