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Ji-Sung Park's Early Years - Before Manchester United

Born on 25th February, 1981 in Seoul, South Korea, Ji-Sung Park was brought up in Suwon, a small industrial town just south of the capital. Always small for his age, Park's ambition to become a professional footballer started at a very young age. But he was keenly aware of his 'scrawny' physique and reportedly his father would even give him boiled frog extracts to 'help him grow'! While obviously a talented boy, it was Park's utter dedication and determination that stays in the mind of those who knew him when growing up.

His parents would worry when he failed to come home after football practice at school, only to find him doing push-ups on the training ground when the other boys had long gone home! Ji-Sung Park only just made it into a Korean college football team and then in 2000, he signed his first official contract with a lowly, second division Japanese side- Kyoto Purple Sanga. But soon everything was to change for Ji-Sung Park....with his eventual moves to PSV Eindhoven and then on to Manchester United.

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