National striker Hwang Ui-jo will be active at FC Seoul for the time being. FC Seoul officially announced on the 5th that they had recruited Hwang Ui-jo, the national striker, on loan.
FC Seoul said, “This transfer is the result of the club and players’ wills coming together for the development of Korean football.” I decided to recruit this time because I thought I could do it,” he explained. “Above all, we expect that the joining of Hwang Ui-jo will once again catch the eyes and ears of the people and take FC Seoul and the K-League to the next level,” he said.
Hwang Eui-jo is also determined to use the joining of FC Seoul as an opportunity to take a second leap in his soccer life and pour out everything in the K-League stage, which is his root.
Hwang Eui-jo, who joined Seongnam in the 2013 season after attending Poongsaeng High School and Yonsei University, played 140 K-League games until the 2017 season, recording 35 points and 8 assists, growing into a representative striker. In particular, at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, which was selected as a wild card and raised expectations, he took the lead in winning the gold medal by recording 9 goals in 7 matches and becoming the top scorer. 메이저놀이터
In the summer of 2019, Hwang Eui-jo made his way to the European stage by joining Girondins de Bordeaux in the French Ligue 1. He scored 29 goals in Ligue 1, including 6 goals in the 2019-2020 season, 12 goals in the 2020-2021 season, and 11 goals in the 2021-2022 season, serving as the team’s signature striker. In 2022, after moving the team to Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League, he immediately moved to Greek Olympiacos on loan and continued his playing career.
Meanwhile, FC Seoul will conduct the 2nd winter training in Kagoshima, Japan from the 6th. Hwang Eui-jo is also expected to join.