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Winning! Source = Tsurvena Zvezda SNS |
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'Genius Midfielder'Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain) won the league title a day after lifting the French Ligue 1 championship cup.
Seol Young-woo (Trvena Zvezda), a key fullback for the national team, won the trophy in his first season on the European stage.
Zvezda confirmed its early victory by winning 3-1 in the 30th round of the Serbian Super League in 2024-2025 season against OFK Belgrade at Red Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia on the 7th (Korea time). Seol Young-woo started as a right full-back and played full-time for 90 minutes.
Zvezda won his 36th career championship and the last eight in a row, proving that he is the Serbian league's '1st strongest'. Red and White ( affectionately named Zvezda) won with seven games left, setting a new record for the shortest game title in the club's history. As of this day, Zvezda's regular Super League (30 rounds) has all ended, but the Super League will play seven more championship/elimination playoff games like the split system of the K League to determine the final ranking. Among the 16 teams, 1st to 8th place will go to the Championship Playoff, and 9th to 16th place will go to the relegation Playoff.
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Zvezda, led by head coach Vladan Milojevic, surpassed the record of the 2022-2023 season by one game, which he won with six games left. Zvezda boasted an overwhelming record of 28 wins and 2 draws (86 points) in 30 games this season without losing a single game. It is 23 points behind the second-place Partizan (63 points).
Seol Young-woo is at the center of the championship. Seol Young-woo moved from Ulsan to Zvezda last summer and quickly secured the main fullback position. He played in 24 league games, including the match against Belgrade, which confirmed the championship, and scored six goals and three assists, showing off his 'non-fungible' skills on both sides of offense and defense. Since returning to the team in December last year after three weeks of basic military training due to special military service following the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games gold medal, he has contributed to the team's early victory with a sharper appearance. He played wherever the team wanted, regardless of right and left.
The stock price soared to the extent that rumors of entering another league and entering the Middle East were circulating in the first season of Zvezda's joining. There were also reports that Belgium's Hent was aiming for it. According to Serbian multiple media, Zvezda has established a policy not to transfer Seol Young-woo.
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Seol Young-woo 2024-2025 season heat map. Source = Sofa Score |
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Seol Young-woo won the trophy almost every year after contributing to winning the Asian Champions League in 2020 when he was in Ulsan. In 2022, he broke Ulsan's long K League 1 tie and contributed to his second consecutive league win in 2023. In 2024, he played in 19 K-League games and then moved to Zvezda, and Ulsan won three consecutive league titles in that season.
Seol Young-woo, who participated in the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023 as a wild card and lost three consecutive games to Korean soccer, played in the European Champions League in his first season in Europe and achieved a 'dream' against a team like Barcelona, and won the league trophy after Hwang In-beom (Feyenoord) last season.
Seol Young-woo was selected as the 2021 K League 1 Young Player Award and the 2023 K League 1 Season Best. It is also worth looking forward to selecting the Serbian Super League team of the year this season. Seol Young-woo is ranking first in the league with an average rating of 7.65 points for statistical company 'Sofascore'.
Hwang In-beom, who moved from Zvezda to Feyenoord last summer, also contributed a small contribution to Zvezda's early victory this season. Before leaving Zvezda, he played in five league games and recorded four assists. Serbian media 'Junnal' mentioned Hwang In-beom along with Seol Young-woo as a player who contributed to Zvezda's victory.
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Following Lee Kang-in on the 6th and Seol Young-woo on the 7th, other Korean European teams are waiting for the order of victory.
Kim Min-jae's team Bayern Munich beat second-place Leverkusen (62 points) by six points with 68 points with six remaining games in the German Bundesliga. If they don't slip more than once in the remaining games, they can seal their first league championship in two years. Kim Min-jae, who moved from Naples to Munich in 2023, will win his first Bundesliga championship and his second Bundesliga championship since Jung Woo-young (then Munich) in the 2018-2019 season.
Baek Seung-ho (Birmingham City), Oh Hyun-kyu (Henk), and Yang Hyun-joon (Celtic) are also certain to win. The championship seems to be a matter of timing because it is far from second place. Cho Kyu-sung and Lee Han-beom (Mitt Willan) are also leading the team.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.