{"id":441109,"date":"2011-06-14T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/14\/sunderland-target-ji-dong-wong-keen-to-emulate-park-ji-sung-lee-chung-yong-in-premier-league\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:09:00","slug":"sunderland-target-ji-dong-wong-keen-to-emulate-park-ji-sung-lee-chung-yong-in-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/sunderland-target-ji-dong-wong-keen-to-emulate-park-ji-sung-lee-chung-yong-in-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland target Ji Dong-Wong keen to emulate Park Ji-Sung &#038; Lee Chung-Yong in Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Shane Farrington<\/h3>\n<h4>14 Jun 2011 18:09:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.7556037599\">\n<div readability=\"15.6514285714\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AG: Ji Dong-Won, South Korea (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/117500\/117548_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>AG: Ji Dong-Won, South Korea (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"22.252553389\">Striker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/south-korea\/47900\/dong-won-ji\">Ji Dong-won<\/a> is hoping to prove as successful as some of his compatriots in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\">Premier League<\/a> should he complete his proposed move to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/537\/sunderland\">Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest a deal in the region of \u00a3800,000 is close to being agreed between the Wearsider club and Chunnam Dragons and Ji is already looking ahead to the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to survive in the English Premier League as long as I can play like Manchester United\u2019s Park Ji-Sung and I also want to be the ace of the team like Lee Chung-Yong at Bolton,\u201d he is quoted as saying by the <em>Sunderland Echo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is expected to sign a three-year contract with the Black Cats and a spokesman for the Dragons effectively confirmed his exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great loss for us to lose him after having him only for one season and after spending many years to train him,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he returns to the K-League, he must return to the Chunnam Dragons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ji is poised to be one of a number of players set to be brought in by manager Steve Bruce, who has cash available following Jordan Henderson\u2019s big-money move to Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/14\/2532094\/sunderland-target-ji-dong-wong-keen-to-emulate-park-ji-sung\" title=\"Sunderland target Ji Dong-Wong keen to emulate Park Ji-Sung &amp; Lee Chung-Yong in Premier League\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland target Ji Dong-Wong keen to emulate Park Ji-Sung &amp; Lee Chung-Yong in Premier League<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Shane Farrington 14 Jun 2011 18:09:00 AG: Ji Dong-Won, South Korea (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Striker Ji Dong-won is hoping to prove as successful as some of his compatriots in the Premier League should he complete his proposed move to Sunderland . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunderland target Ji Dong-Wong keen to emulate Park Ji-Sung &amp; Lee Chung-Yong in Premier League - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/sunderland-target-ji-dong-wong-keen-to-emulate-park-ji-sung-lee-chung-yong-in-premier-league\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sunderland target Ji Dong-Wong keen to emulate Park Ji-Sung &amp; 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