Italy welcomes first North Korean

By Football Italia staff

Cagliari have signed teenage striker Han Kwang Song, the first North Korean to play for an Italian club.

Han goes straight into Cagliari’s Primavera squad after a successful trial and is also free to play in Serie A for Massimo Rastelli’s first team.

A statement on the Sardinians’ official website explains the 18-year-old is “an ambidextrous forward, with good dribbling, an eye for goal and vision”.

He won the Asian Under-16 Championship with North Korea in 2014 and “impressed international observers” at the U17 World Cup a year later.

Han is also Cagliari’s first-ever Asian player, given Radja Nainggolan chose to represent Belgium over Indonesia.

Image courtesy cagliaricalcio.com

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