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This Champions League-winning Manchester United star now goes to university in Leicester
He’s won the Champions League, he has four Premier League championship medals and he led his nation to a World Cup semifinal. Now he’s studying at a university in Leicester.
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Soccer stars aren’t traditionally renowned for their pursuit of academia, but former Manchester United star Park Ji-Sung has enrolled in a masters course at Leicester’s De Montfort University, where he will study sports management.
The BBC reports:
The former Manchester United midfielder, from South Korea, will be studying for an international masters degree in management, law, and humanities of sport.
“One of my colleagues said it had been a great experience and that many players go into coaching or management” he told the DMU website.
“I wanted to improve my knowledge of football around the pitch and then perhaps work in the South Korean football league”
The Leicester Mercury note that DeMontford’s sports management course was named as the best in Europe last year. It is, therefore, a fitting educational destination for a man who has already studied under one of the greatest ever proponents of management in sports: Sir Alex Ferguson.
Park isn’t the only star from world soccer to have dabbled in higher education. Juan Mata has two degrees, Sunderland’s Duncan Watmore needed time away from training to receive his first-class degree in Economics and Wayne Rooney once took a bus tour that went past Cambridge University.
