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New Year’s Day athletes are all in Chinese sportswear… Only Hwang Hee-chan was different.

Hwang Hee-chan, the main player in the round of 16 of the Qatar World Cup, announced Hangeul in England, the home of football, proudly.

The third search term is ‘Hwang Hee-chan’, three bright letters in a Chinese character feast.

Hwang Hee-chan, who plays for Wolverhampton in the English Premier League, appeared wearing sportswear with a Korean name on it for the New Year, but it is a little different from the sportswear of his colleagues.

On the 23rd local time, the Wolverhampton team with Chinese owners came out wearing sportswear with their names written in Chinese before the match against Man City.

The club’s social media also marked New Year’s Day as ‘Chinese New Year’ instead of ‘Lunar New Year’, which is a bit of a conscious move by the Chinese owner.

Wolverhampton players wearing tracksuits marked in Chinese

In the middle of this, Hwang appeared alone in a sports uniform with a Korean name written on it, and among the Wolverhampton players full of Chinese characters, the three letters ‘Hwang Hee-chan’ stood out.

It has not been confirmed whether Hwang requested this sportswear or whether the club produced it themselves.

Netizens showed reactions such as “As expected, ‘Hwang Hee-chan, the basic'” and “I don’t notice and immediately support like a bull.”

(Screen source: Twitter wolves · Instagram Hwang Hee-chan)