Another "who's this?"

[Holyjoe]

[img src="http://photo-media.hanmail.net/cpif/image.ohmynews.com/down/images/1/geneker_188248_1[238798].jpg"]

The guy on the right was born in Korea, is an up and coming footballer who has trained with several English club sides and represented his country at U-20 level.

The man on the left is his father and a rather famous K-League name... so who is he?

[Ed.]

Don't recognise them, but from the description, it has to be Piyapong Pue On and Jr.

[Holyjoe]

Yep, Piapong and his son Pongpisut Pue-on.

Junior has trained with the youth teams of Manchester City, Oldham and Middlesbrough, as well as working his way through the Thailand national youth set-up to U20 level.

Piapong played for Lucky-Goldstar right near the start of the K-League (84~86 I think?), and was the top scorer in 1985 when LG won the title. 45 goals in 60 international games too, I think.

Actually Junior has an eye on playing in Korea just like his father did - we'll see what transpires...

www.nationmultimedia.com/page.arcview.php3?clid=9&id=105151&usrsess=1

Young striker Pongpisut Pewon stands a good chance of joining a top flight Korean team with a South Korea based agency wanting him to sign a contract on September 9.

Former Thai international Piyapong Pewon, Pongpisut's father, revealed yesterday that he planned to send his son to play with his former club Lucky Gold Star's reserves team.

However, after talking to experts and friends he changed his mind after being advised that signing a contract with an agency would be the best way to become a professional player in South Korea.

"An agency will take care of Tangmo [Pongpisut's nickname] after signing a contract. They will seek the most appropriate team for him," he said.

"But I told some official from the agency that I want him to play in South Korea to gain experience for about two to three years.

"The agency will take 15 per cent of Pongpisut's income. It's quite fair for us and them. And I believe that if Tangmo plays football in South Korea for two years, he can play with any team around the world," he added.

A South Korean agency is due to sign a contract with Pongpisut on September 9 at the Football Association of Thailand.

Pongpisut studied at the Middlesbrough football academy college where he learned how to be the professional player, along with an the academic course. He returned home early this year before making the under20 team.

[Ed.]

Holyjoe said:

YepPiapong played for Lucky-Goldstar right near the start of the K-League (84~86 I think?), and was the top scorer in 1985 when LG won the title.

Although it's not something I generally pay much notice to, he led the league in "assists" the same season, yet somehow managed not to get league MVP. I know stats aren't how you should make that decision, but can you imagine a local player finishing top in goals and assists and not getting MVP?

[nyujeelandsaram]

They seem to ignore them here most years in baseball and footie since foreign players lead the league in them pretty often.

And knowing how they distort crowd numbers it seems that Koreans are'nt so shit hot at maths as everybody reckons