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Post by NiallQuinnsdiscoPants Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:16 pm

Just been reading that Park Chu-young will only be able to play for Arsenal for 2 years before having to return home to do 2 years national service.

We will eventually have the same issue with Dong-Won. It got me thinking about other players who have had the same issue.

I remember reading years ago about a goal keeper who served in some special forces. Forgot his name, I think he was from one of the Scandanavian countries.

Anyway what other notable players have had to do the same ?.
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Post by RedOranje Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:21 pm

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Tim Howard? Playing for Everton is basically the same as being stuck in a foxhole...
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Post by Red Alert Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:22 pm

:lol!:
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Post by drakefyre Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:02 pm

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Post by :{Mr.Mustachio! Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:57 pm

In Italy National service was compulsory untill not so long ago; the generation of ADP, Totti etc all did it.

I once read somewhere that a former Livorno (Livorno is notoriously Anti-Facist, infact it's very much Comunist in outlook) captain was a leader in the Italian resistance and was actually killed fighting in the Second World war if I remember correctly.

Not sure if it's true or his name. Wigglesworth may though.
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Post by Highburied Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:13 pm

It was wigglesworth himself ...
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Post by :{Mr.Mustachio! Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:28 pm


Also, Giampiero Boniperti was in the Alpini.
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Post by TalkingReckless Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:53 pm

GyansDancingBoots wrote:Just been reading that Park Chu-young will only be able to play for Arsenal for 2 years before having to return home to do 2 years national service.

We will eventually have the same issue with Dong-Won. It got me thinking about other players who have had the same issue.

I remember reading years ago about a goal keeper who served in some special forces. Forgot his name, I think he was from one of the Scandanavian countries.

Anyway what other notable players have had to do the same ?.

if South Korea does good in Olympics they both might be exempt....Dong-Won will be in the olympic squad if they qualify.....Park could be on one of the 3 over age people...

because the 2004 team was which included Man U's Park
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Post by Highburied Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:59 pm

I LoL'd at this tweet...

#Arsenal agree deal to send Sebastian Squilacci to the South Korean army to serve the two year national service on behalf of Chu Young Park
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Post by Sushi Master Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:05 pm

highburied wrote:I LoL'd at this tweet...

#Arsenal agree deal to send Sebastian Squilacci to the South Korean army to serve the two year national service on behalf of Chu Young Park
Only for him to mysteriously disappear on the border of the DMZ in a routine patrol...
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Post by Guiltybystander Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:23 pm

Sushi Master wrote:
highburied wrote:I LoL'd at this tweet...

#Arsenal agree deal to send Sebastian Squilacci to the South Korean army to serve the two year national service on behalf of Chu Young Park
Only for him to mysteriously disappear on the border of the DMZ in a routine patrol...

Hahahaha, amazing.

Leave it to Arsenal to buy TWO players who have to leave for military service. As if regular injuries weren't enough.
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Post by Babun Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:45 pm

highburied wrote:It was wigglesworth himself ...
Are you the real highburied? Very Happy How are you doing mate? Very Happy I missed our fights :lol!:
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Post by Serge Gnabry Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:21 pm

2 years is a long time.
German players had to do the same (until we got rid of conscription this year).

They had the possibility to do social work instead of Bundeswehr though. Still, when they were not busy with school, games and training they had to work at hospitals or nursing homes. Pretty stressful.

I know that a kid from Hansa Rostock was helping clean the buttocks of old guys at my great-grandma's nursing home here in Rostock. Very Happy
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Post by ChollaVille Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:12 pm

That was big problem in Ex-Yugoslavia.
FK "Partizan" was military club, and if some player did not wanna to sign for them, he had to stop his career and go to army. LOL
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Post by Highburied Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:23 pm

babun1024 wrote:
highburied wrote:It was wigglesworth himself ...
Are you the real highburied? Very Happy How are you doing mate? Very Happy I missed our fights :lol!:

No the old highburied died in an accident.. in the same time i was in the hospital needed a heart... before he past away took his heart and replaced with mine... so i became a gunner automatically and i love some weird stuff ... its kinda strange isnt it?
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