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| dalpaengi | Feb 18 2009, 01:57 PM Post #11 |
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To be fair, the reason foreign players can't compete in the K3 League is down to the visa regulations of the country which make it practically impossible for non-Koreans to participate in non-professional league football. Bucheon have two foreign players registered; Congolese defender Jerry Kaka and French forward Sebastian Neumann. I don't know about Kaka but Sebastian is/was in Korea on a student visa. He played for the Bayern Munich youth team in the past but came to Korea to study and was playing Sunday league football for a few teams... he wanted to play at a higher level than the expat leagues and joined up with amateur side Gangnam TNT. Gangnam TNT were effectively swallowed up when the new Bucheon side got off the ground and the best players from that squad became Bucheon players, which is how they ended up being registered with the club. Under Korean visa law though you're only allowed to do what is specifically stated on your visa, so being on a student visa would render you unable to officially register as a player with the Korean FA. If you can't do that, you can't play in the league. I think visas can only be sponsored by employers on a full-time basis, so it would require a fundamental change in the way K3 (and also second division) clubs were set up and operated in order to employ foreign players. Short of marrying a Korean (and thus getting a spouse visa which allows you to work anywhere) or taking Korean citizenship there's no way around it at present. K3 is an amateur league at present but there are reasonably large sums of money involved in running the clubs - the average operating budgets for K3 clubs in the 2008 season was $250,000, which contrasts with an average of $1.3m for second division clubs and $9.8m for top flight teams. Bucheon are one of the richer clubs in the K3 but their debut season last year didn't really reflect that, finishing 13th overall out of the sixteen clubs. Hopefully things will improve in 2009 
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| wfcfm2009 | Feb 18 2009, 03:03 PM Post #12 |
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Oh ok. Well that makes sense with the visa regulations i guess. If they want to expand the league it would be good into changing the system i think no? Can bucheon not bring higher quality players to join the squad with all the money they've got? Or does it work differently in korea? I think wimbledon have done a good job of attracting quality players to join in order to gain promotion. Maybe because there is no promotion/relegation system in korea it is different. It is hard for me to imagine a league where you basically are not playing for much. If you can't get promoted, whats the point right? Maybe bucheon should send this kaka and sebastian to wimbledon. A player that was playing in bayern munich should do well in the conference division. BRING WIMBLEDON BACK IN THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE! |
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| wfcfm2009 | Feb 22 2009, 01:14 PM Post #13 |
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Noone thinks the two foreign players should be sent to afc wimbledon. It would strengthen the partnership i believe. |
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