Park Chu-Young
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| Park Chu-Young | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Park Chu-Young(박주영) | |
| Date of birth | July 10, 1985 | |
| Place of birth | Daegu, Republic of Korea | |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | |
| Playing position | Center Forward Left Winger |
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| Club information | ||
| Current club | FC Seoul | |
| Number | 10 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 2004-2005 | Korea University | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2005- | FC Seoul | 58 (22) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2003-2005 2005- |
Korea Republic U20 Korea Republic |
16 (16) 26 (9) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Park Chu-Young (박주영 Park Chu-young; Hanja: 朴主永; born July 10, 1985 in Daegu) is a South Korean footballer who was awarded the "AFC Young Player of the Year" award by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 2004. He plays as a striker & winger for FC Seoul and the Korea Republic. He is renowned for his agility (he runs the 100m dash in the early to mid 10 seconds range) and passing ability. He is also a lethal free kick taker.
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[edit] Career
[edit] 2004
Park Chu-young's popularity with the Korean public was sparked by his stellar performance at the AFC Youth Championship 2004 where he led the U-20 Korean national team to a record-breaking 11th title. In the process, he swept the Golden Ball Award and was chosen Most Valuable Player of the tournament. He was also capped for the South Korean U-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.
The country's "Park Chu-young" hysteria grew even more wildly when Korea's U-20 squad participated in the Qatar eight-team invitational in January 2005. Scoring nine goals in four games, Park had two against China, three against Ukraine, two against Algeria, and two against Japan as Korea won the tournament.
[edit] 2005
He joined the Korea Republic national football team in June 2005. His debut was against Uzbekistan, where he managed to score his first goal for the side and saw the Red Devils (the Koreans' official fan club) start calling him "Football Genius".
During the 2005 season, Park had scored 3 goals and 4 assists with the Korea Republic national football team, while the striker Lee Dong-Gook was having a great year as the first choice forward/striker for the Korea Republic national football team. Park also participated in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, where he scored a goal from a free kick against Nigeria.
Park also joined the professional soccer league, K-League. Where he signed with FC Seoul in 2005. In Park's first season, he scored 18 goals and gave 4 assists in 30 appearances (including the cup matches), earning the K-League's best young player title and becoming top scorer of that competition.[citation needed]
[edit] 2006
After Park's successful 2005 season, the Korean public hoped he would continue to show his good form in the 2006 World Cup, but he ended up playing in only one game: the third and final match of the group stage, against Switzerland. Park played mere 63 minutes, receiving a yellow card for running into one of the Swiss players while helping out in the defense, which resulted in Philippe Senderos' header in the 23rd minute.[citation needed]
Notwithstanding his less-than-stellar performance at the World Cup, it was expected by Korean supporters that Park would re-encounter his best game while playing in K-League, but this was not the case, as he notched only 8 goals and 1 assist in 30 appearances (including the cup matches) during the 2006 season.[citation needed]
Later on in 2006, he joined the Korean side's National Olympic soccer team for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, where he had a great start by scoring 2 goals against Bangladesh. But after the big first game in Doha, he failed to contribute with an another single goal during the whole tournament. In the end, the Korean side's lost to Iraq in the controversial semi-finals match and were also unable to beat Iran in the third-place match, which resulted in no medals for the Korean side for the first time in many years.[citation needed]
[edit] 2007
Just as the 2007 K-League kicked off, Park had a better start with scoring 4 goals in 11 matches (including Cup games). But soon he was hampered by on and off foot injury that he sustained during the regular season game. Due to the injury he was placed on a reserve for the Korea Republic national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, but his injury was never recovered in time nor did any of the forwards picked for the Korea Republic national football team were not injured or underperformed at the training camp or the exhibition matches, which resulted in a cut from the Korea Republic national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Also during his injury, his missed the FC Seoul game with the Premiership's Manchester United game, which proved to be a big loss for the FC Seoul's side since they were shut out during the whole game against their opponents resulting the game in a blowout manner, ending the game 4-0 (but FC Seoul was missing 3 players due to the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.
Returning from the foot injury, he played for the qualification rounds for the Beijing Olympics in which South Korea secured a place by drawing 0:0 with Bahrain on 27/11/07.
[edit] 2008
Park has started the year with impressive performances for Korea Republic against Turkmenistan and China. Despite not scoring a goal in Korea's 4-0 victory against Turkmenistan, he had two assists.
In the East Asian Cup, with Korea's foreign-based players missing, Park scored two against China PR to help win the match 3-2.
The media is putting a lot of attention on the remaining East Asian Cup games against Japan and Korea DPR, and the World Cup Qualifier against Korea DPR.
[edit] Link to English Premier League
- He has publicly stated his wish to play in the Premiership ever since he was young, but his meager playing time and unimpressive performances during the 2006 World Cup and the 2006 K-League season have hurt his stock, and it seems European teams have put Park off their radar for now, but Park is staying optimistic as he hopes to have a better 2007 season. However, another setback appeared as he was not picked for the Korea Republic national football team, in then Korea Republic national football team's head coash Pim Verbeek's provisional Asian Cup squad, but only to be picked as a reserve squad.
- When Manchester United played Park's FC Seoul during 07-08 preseason game, Korean and English media speculated that Sir Alex Ferguson had an interest in signing Park.
- He has been linked more than once to a move to Newcastle United, who have quoted him to be the next "Jimmy Greaves".
- On May 20th 2008, it is being reported that Sunderland A.F.C have shown greater interest in getting Park. It is thought that FC Seoul could be willing to sell Park for £4 million.
[edit] Personal
- He is also a very faithful Christian, he always signs to his fans on the right hand side of the paper saying "Jesus Christ is the Lord".
[edit] Club Stats
As of August 9th, 2007
| Club | Season | K-League | Hauzen Cup | AFC Champions League | Total | ||||||||
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| App | Goals | Assists | App | Goals | Assists | App | Goals | Assists | App | Goals | Assists | ||
| FC Seoul | 2005 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | 30 | 18 | 4 |
| 2006 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 30 | 8 | 1 | |
| 2007 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | 14 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 56 | 22 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 1 | - | - | - | 76 | 32 | 5 | |
| Career Totals | 4 | 56 | 22 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 1 | - | - | - | 76 | 32 | 5 |
[edit] National Team Stats
- Scores and results list Korea Republic's goal tally first.
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | June 3, 2005 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan |  Uzbekistan |
1-1 | 1-1 | 2006 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 2 | June 8, 2005 | Kuwait City, Kuwait |  Kuwait |
1-0 | 4-0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 3 | January 21, 2006 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |  Greece |
1-1 | 1-1 | Friendly match |
| 4 | January 25, 2006 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |  Finland |
1-0 | 1-0 | Friendly match |
| 5 | March 1, 2006 | Seoul, Korea Republic |  Angola |
1-0 | 1-0 | Friendly match |
| 6 | February 17, 2008 | Chongqing, China |  China PR |
1-0 | 3-2 | East Asian Cup 2008 |
| 7 | February 17, 2008 | Chongqing, China | China PR |
2-2 | 3-2 | East Asian Cup 2008 |
| 8 | May 31, 2008 | Seoul, Republic of Korea |  Jordan |
2-0 | 2-2 | 2010 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 9 | June 6, 2008 | Amman, Kingdom of Jordan | Jordan |
1-0 | 1-0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
[edit] References
- ^ List of KNT Matches
- ^ K-리그 개인기록 현황
- ^ http://www.eyefootball.com/news/5737/Sunderland-target-Park-Chu-Young/
Preceded by Yoshito Okubo |
Asian Young Footballer of the Year 2004 |
Succeeded by Choe Myong-Ho |
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