FC Seoul Recruits 'K League No. 1 Home-Growning' Osan High School Samuel

The first ever 'homey' player in the K-League of professional soccer has been born.

FC Seoul says it has hired Bato Samuel, a Ivory Coast national who is about to graduate from Osan High School.

Samuel, whose parents are both from Ivory Coast, was born and raised in Korea in 2006.

Samuel is a side resource that has been attracting attention early on for his reckless breakthrough using explosive speed at FC Seoul Youth Team Osan High School.

In particular, it is evaluated as having strong shooting ability and finishing ability.

The K-League home gracious system will be implemented from this season by considering foreign national youth players as domestic players when registering as rookies if they have been active for a certain period of time as a member of a domestic amateur team.If a player who has been a member of a domestic amateur team registered with the Korea Football Association for more than five years or more in a row for more than three years until

turns 18 years old, signs with the K-League club as the first professional team and registers as a rookie, it is considered a domestic player and is excluded from the foreign player quota.