The winner of the 2023 Korea Football Association Young Player of the Year Award was selected as a target for recruiting prestigious European clubs.
Berckzan Oewishlü appeared on the Turkiye “Radio Goal” and recommended Hwang Jae-won (22, Daegu FC) as “a right-back who can adapt to the 2024-25 Besiktash system under coach Giovanni van Bronckhorst (49, Netherlands).”
“Radio Goal” is a broadcast that can be heard through FM frequency of 92.2 MHz in Istanbul, where Besiktash is based. Besiktash has won 16 times, the third-most in Turkiye, which is ranked ninth in the UEFA league.
The transfer window for Turkiye in the summer of 2024 will end on September 13 local time. Berckjan Oewishlü is a soccer commentator for Radio Goal. “It may not be the right back that coach Giovani van Bronckhorst wants right now,” he said. “If Hwang Jae-won is brought in, it would be a great investment for Besiktash.”
Giovani van Bronckhorst was one of six players who played more than 106 A matches in the history of the Netherlands national team, which is ranked seventh in the FIFA world rankings.
As a manager, his achievements include winning the 2016-17 Dutch Eredivisie and the 2021-22 Europa League. At that time, Eredivisie was 13th in the European League. The Europa League is next to the Champions League and is the UEFA club competition.
Giovani van Bronckhorst made a highly intense debut in the 2023-24 Turkiye first division defending champion Galatasaray 5-0 in the Super Cup, which he commanded as his first official match in Besiktash.
“There are times when the opponent team leaves the left back because of strong attack on the right side or something like that. Then, the opponent team should let the right back run aggressively (for balance between left and right). If this is the case, Hwang Jae-won can be used immediately,” Berkszan Oewishlü said, evaluating the team’s strength immediately after Besiktash.
Hwang Jae-won scored two points and nine assists in 97 matches including ▲K League 1 ▲ Korea Cup ▲ Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League preliminary and main competition at Daegu FC. It is very impressive that he was selected with an average of 85.9 minutes in participation, although his record was set from the age of 20.
He is a four-back right-back for the national team, but Daegu FC Hwang Jae-won is the main position where the right midfielder (wingback) played 74.9% of the total time in the three-back formation. (Central/defensive midfielder 19.5%, center back 3.4%, left wing back 2.2%.)
Berckjan Oewishlü advised Besiktash, “You can use it when you need a right-back that actively goes up to the opponent’s side,” which means that Hwang Jae-won knows he plays as a midfielder in South Korean professional football.
In recognition of his contribution to advancing to the round of 16 Daegu FC in 2022, Hwang Jae-won was selected as the best four right-backs in the Asian 안전놀이터 Football Confederation’s Champions League and became the subject of international attention.
At the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games in China in 2023, he was the main right-back who played 84.2 minutes per participation, supporting the Korean gold medal, satisfying the criteria for transferring sports personnel called “special military service”. He made his A-match debut through the second Asian qualifying round for the 2026 23rd FIFA North-China World Cup.