Soccer-Middlesbrough sign South Korea striker Lee Dong-Gook
LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) Middlesbrough have agreed to sign South Korea's Lee Dong-Gook from the Pohang Steelers.
The Premier League club said on their Web site (www.mfc.premiumtv.co.uk) today they were confident the striker would be granted a work permit despite not having played the required 75 percent of his country's internationals in the last 12 months.
Lee, 27, who has had a trial period with Boro, was missing from South Korea's World Cup campaign last year because of a serious knee injury.
He also missed out on the 2002 World Cup finals on home soil when coach Guus Hiddink omitted him from the squad.
Boro said they would submit a work-permit application in the next few days.
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Story first published: Sunday, January 21, 2007, 20:39 [IST]