This year's Japan-Korea League season has come to an end after its reopening. In the K-League, Jeonbuk Hyundai has just been crowned champions of the league with a 2-0 win over Daegu FC, making it four in a row. In the J-League, Kawasaki Frontale are at the top of the table with 68 points from 22 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss with only 9 games remaining, and they are 17 points ahead of Gamba Osaka in second place. With the Japanese and South Korean leagues virtually assured of the league title, they jointly welcomed the announcement of the retirement of their respective teams' flagship legends. They are Lee Tong Prefect of Jeonbuk Hyundai who is 41 years old, and Nakamura Kenko of Kawasaki Frontale who is 40 years old.
As I mentioned in my previous article, Lee Tong-guk has been playing for South Korea since he was 19 years old in France 1998.
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The young man was a young man, but he was also a young man who had been arrested for disciplinary reasons.
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He was removed from the team, among other things. After a disappointing stay in Europe, he returned to the beginning of his career with Seongnam FC, and a year later he joined the current Jeonbuk Hyundai. It was thought that Lee Tong-gook's return would be the beginning of his retirement, but that was the beginning of his glorious decade.
After joining Jeonbuk Hyundai in 2009, he won the K-League Championship in his first season, and personally won the league's best player, golden boot, most popular player award and the league's best eleven. In 2011, he helped the team reach the AFC Champions League.
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Although he lost to Sporting Saddlers, he won the AFC Champions League Player of the Year and the Golden Boot. Luckily for 囯李同囯, he got his wish in 2016 by defeating Melbourne Victory, Shanghai SIPG and fellow rival FC Seoul in the knockout stages of the tournament.
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On defeated Al Ain FC of the United Arab Emirates by a two-round total of 3-2 to clinch the overall AFC Champions League title, the highest honor in Asian soccer!
Why does Blue Cannonball consider his return to the Korean League at the age of 30 to be his twelve years of glory? That's because in his twelve years with Jeonbuk Hyundai, he helped the team win eight K-League titles (including four straight from 2017 to 2020), one Korean
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Cup runner-up and one AFC Champions League title. Individually, Li Tongguo has won four League Player of the Year awards, one Golden Boot award, one assist title and five selections in the League's Best Eleven, among other major honors, in a ten-year period, an honor that few domestic players have achieved in recent years. Athletically, Li Tongguo has appeared in around 25 games in the first eleven of his twelve years, with seven consecutive seasons of double figures in goals and assists. In the 2011 season, he achieved a rare double-double (16 goals and 14 assists), which is rare for a player over 30 years old.
Maybe many of the Korean students know Lee Tong Prefect from variety shows, maybe his achievement is not the same as Cha Fan Geun, Park Ji Sung and Son Heung Soo and other foreign superstars, but just to talk about his gains and honors in the soccer circle, it is enough for him to get the salute from the Korean fans and people.
When Kawasaki Striker was in the J2 League, they met Kenkazu Nakamura, who had a good performance in the university league, and Nakamura joined the team officially after graduation. Nakamura officially joined the team after graduation. He represented the team in the opening match of the J2 League in 2003. Because of his last name and in Italy and domestic already have a certain fame Nakamura Shunsuke same last name, and the position of the same, so it is inevitable to let the fans to make comparisons between them, and even some people call Nakamura Kenkazu Nakamura is a "weakened version of Shunsuke Nakamura", because both are technically top, the size of the body on the weak skill type players. (This kind of comparison in the blue gun maru has happened, in middle school playing live soccer was originally looking for S NAKAMURA but accidentally used K NAKAMURA, the heart of the OS will think that this K NAKAMURA are not very strong ...)
Although there were still many talented Japanese players who chose to stay in Japan in the first decade of the new century and did not follow Hidetoshi Nakata to the west, Kenkō Nakamura was not as good as the foreign group or even Paul Endo, who also stayed in the country, in the selection rankings of the national team. In his sixteen-year career, he has only represented the national adult team in the 2007 World Cup.
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South Africa 2010
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and the 2013 Confederations Cup only.
His loyalty and rootedness in his home team has given Kenkazu Nakamura the opportunity to move up the ladder at the age of 35. Firstly, in the 2016 season, he scored 9 goals and 10 assists to help his team finish third in the league, and was awarded the J-League Player of the Year, the Best Eleven, and the Japan Player of the Year for his individual performances. At 36 years and 50 days old, he became the oldest player in the history of the award.
