“North Korea is an unknown place for us. For Europe and other Asian countries, we hear about them, but for North Korea, we have never heard any information about it and we couldn’t even hope to be there one day. So yeah, I never expected that.”
Now in his 10th year at the Bishan-based club, it’s fair to say Song’s been around the block a fair bit.
Starting off at a small academy near his hometown in Korea, the midfielder has enjoyed multiple successful domestic and continental campaigns during his time in Singapore, and has established himself as one of the best attacking midfielders in Southeast Asia.
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Global military expenditure rose by 2.6% to $1.98 trillion last year even as some defence funds were reallocated to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a report issued on Monday.
The five biggest spenders in 2020, which together accounted for 62% of military spending worldwide, were the United States, China, India, Russia and Britain in that order. We can say with some certainty that the pandemic did not have a significant impact on global military spending in 2020, SIPRI researcher Diego Lopes da Silva said in a statement.
As global GDP declined because of the pandemic, military spending as a share of GDP reached a global average of 2.4% in 2020, up from 2.2% in 2019.
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Aurelio Vidmar will leave his post as head coach of Singapore's big-spenders Lion City Sailors on Friday and is set to return to Thailand champions BG Pathum United.