The name Lee Seung-Woo will sound familiar to many. And if not, the story that accompanies it. The South Korean footballer trained at Barcelona and was always considered a player with a great future, on par, they said, with Messi himself. Due to its low center of gravity and the way it plays, comparisons immediately arose. Lee became the Korean Messi.
Although he did not play for several months due to the FIFA sanction against Barça, he later became a member of the Barça B team, with which he debuted in March 2016. With his national team he was also a star in budding It was the media claim of the U-20 in the World Cup of the category that was organized there. A year later he made the jump to the senior team and was called up for Russia 2018.
But by then it was already clear that his level was far from what was expected. Barça let him go to Verona, first on loan and then transferred. In Italy he was lost track of, especially when Verona was relegated. I ended up in Belgium, in the modest Saint-Truden.
And things couldn’t have gotten worse. After a first stage in which he barely intervened (he was loaned to the Portuguese Portimonense) he returned in this one and the situation has become more twisted. He has not played a minute until this week when the club and the player have decided to terminate his contract, despite being 23 years old. In two seasons, he has left a poor record of 17 games played and 2 goals scored. The Korean Messi, the one Barça was excited about, finds himself without a team and without great expectations.آ
