Did HJ catch this... another K-Leaguer to Oz.

[SteveW]

Korean striker Min-Suk Jang (aged 28) has arrived in Brisbane and commenced pre-season training with Hyundai A-League club Queensland Roar.

Jang has played over 200 games in the K-League, Korea's top flight league. Jang was voted Most Valuable Player in the 2001 and 2002 K-League seasons.

Roar coach Miron Bleiberg is looking forward to teaming Jang up with the similarly powerful-built striker Royce Brownlie.

“I’d hate to be a central defender with strikers of their size and strength running at me,” Bleiberg said.

[Holyjoe]

Someone must have got some wrong information somewhere along the line... according to the K-League website Jang Min-suk has only played 13 games in the K-League, with Cheonbuk back in 1999. He was signed by Daegu in 2003 but it looks like he didn't play any games for them.

Probably spent most of his time in the K2 league (he was at Daejeon HP last year) and picked up the awards there.

[Holyjoe]

Now THIS is funny ;D

Roar dumps Korean import
SBS

Korean striker Min-Suk Jang has been released by Hyundai A-League club Queensland Roar after it was discovered the 28 year old didn't quite have the pedigree it was claimed.

The club originally announced that the player had played over 200 games in the Korean K-League and was voted the Most Valuable Player in the 2001 and 2002 K-League seasons - but the truth was slightly different.

According to the Courier-Mail, Jang actually only played 13 K-League games, back in 1999, and Roar chief executive Laurence Oudendyk told the newspaper the truth came out when they sent the player's resume to Football Federation Australia as part of the process involved in getting the player a visa.

"We were shocked," Oudendyk told the newspaper. "But luckily it happened early in the season and we are able to look for someone else. We were very lucky. We could have been stuck with him for a year."

"It was surprising because the player's agent [Roar signing Tae-Yong Shin] managed to negotiate two very good, legitimately good players [Shin and Hyuk-Su Seo]. It was just that the third one was very wide of the mark."

The newspaper also reports that Roar has now turned its attention to former Marconi star Alex Brosque, who is currently contracted to Feyenoord.

[nyujeelandsaram]

Gee, it's not like Koreans to try to con anybody!!!!

Shin Tae-yong you dodgy bugger.

[IconsFanatic]

Quick - someone run the rule over Portaloo's CV! ;D