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| Full name | Chu-Young Park | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 July 1985 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Daegu, South Korea | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Arsenal | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 9 | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | FC Zico | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | FC Seoul | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | FC Seoul | 69 | (23) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Monaco | 91 | (25) | ||||||||||||
| 2011– | Arsenal | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | South Korea U-20 | 26 | (18) | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2010 | South Korea U-23 | 21 | (8) | ||||||||||||
| 2005– | South Korea | 57 | (23) | ||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 October 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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| Park Chu-Young | |
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| Hangul | 박주영 |
| Hanja | 朴主永 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Ju-yeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chu-yŏng |
Chu-Young Park (Hangul: 박주영, Hanja: 朴主永; sometimes romanised as Ju-Young Park; born 10 July 1985) is a South Korean footballer who plays for Arsenal in the Premier League and is the current captain for the South Korea national team.
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Park Ju Young's popularity with the Korean public was sparked by his success 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 won the Golden Ball Award and was chosen Most Valuable Player of the tournament. He was also capped for the South Korea 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. Park scored two against China, three against Ukraine, two against Algeria, and two against Japan as Korea won the tournament. Park was named the Asian Young Footballer of the Year by the Asian Football Confederation.
Park also participated in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, where he scored a goal from a free kick against Nigeria.
In 2005, Park joined the K-League, where he signed with FC Seoul. In Park's first season, he scored 18 goals and gave 4 assists in 30 appearances (including cup matches), earning him the K-League's Best Young Player of the year title and becoming top scorer of the competition. He became FC Seoul's club icon.
During the season, he was offered to Guus Hiddink's PSV Eindhoven but a transfer fee couldn't be agreed on.
After Park's successful 2005 season, he was part of the South Korea squad for 2006 World Cup, but he ended up playing in only one game: the third and final match of the group stage, against Switzerland and received man of the match.
After the World Cup, it was expected by Korean supporters that Park would re-find his best form while playing in the K-League, but this was not the case, as he only scored 8 goals and 1 assist in 30 appearances (including cup matches) during the 2006 season.
Later on in 2006, he joined the South Korea Olympic football team for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, where he had a great start by scoring 2 goals against Bangladesh. But after this game, he failed to find the net for the rest of the tournament. South Korea lost to Iraq in the controversial semi-final match and were also unable to beat Iran in the third-place match, which resulted in South Korea being left without medals for the first time in many years.
Just as the 2007 K-League kicked off, Park began the season by scoring 10 goals in 11 matches (including Cup games). But soon he was hampered by a on and off foot injury that he sustained during the regular season. Due to the injury he was placed in the reserves for the South Korea national team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, but he did not recover from injury in time, nor were any of the forwards picked for the South Korea national football team injured or underperformed at the training camp or friendly matches, which resulted in a cut from the South Korea national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Also during his injury, he missed the FC Seoul game with the Premiership's Manchester United. This proved to be significant as FC Seoul were shut out during the game 4-0, and could have used the influence of their star striker.
Returning from his foot injury, he played in the qualification rounds for the Beijing Olympics in which South Korea secured a place by drawing 0-0 with Bahrain on 27 November 2007.
After impressive performances in the national and Olympic team squads, Park completed the move to AS Monaco on September 1. On September 13, he scored on his debut against FC Lorient in the 26th minute. In the 2nd half, he assisted his team mate Frédéric Nimani before being substituted. The game ended 2–0, and Park was named as the Man of the Match.
On February 13, 2011, Park scored his seventh goal of the season in a 3–1 win over FC Lorient. Thirteen days later, Park scored a brace in a 2–2 home draw over SM Caen.[1]
On 30 August 2011, English Premier League club Arsenal confirmed the signing of Park.[2] He was given the number 9 shirt. Chu-Young also announced that in two years time he will have to leave Arsenal for military service.[3] He scored his first goal for Arsenal in the fourth round of the Carling Cup against Bolton Wanderers (giving Arsenal the win by 2–1), a very well taken finish, set up by Andrei Arshavin. The Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger also stated that Chu-Young was ready for the league following that goal. On 1 November, Chu-Young started his first UEFA Champions League match, a 0–0 draw against French outfit Marseille.
He joined the South Korea national football team in June 2005. He debuted in the match against Uzbekistan and managed to score his first goal for the team. By the end of the year Park had scored 3 goals and had made 4 assists with the South Korea.
On 17 June 2010, Park scored an own goal in a 4–1 defeat to Argentina at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[4] However, Park redeemed himself in Korea's next match against Nigeria by scoring a crucial free kick in a 2–2 draw, allowing the Koreans to advance to the round of 16. In the round of 16, Park's free kick just before halftime struck the left goal post. A late goal from Luis Suárez put Uruguay on top. The final score was 2–1 to Uruguay who then advanced to the quarter-finals in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, eliminating South Korea.
Park, along with Kim Jung Woo, was called to the U-23 team to participate in the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou. The team was led by former national team captain Hong Myung-Bo. Park did not play in the first game against North Korea, which ended in a 0–1 loss. He came off the bench in the next game against Jordan, which South Korea won 4–0. He started the last group game against Palestine, in which he scored the second goal in the 3–0 victory before being substituted. South Korea advanced to the knockout round, having finished second place in Group C with 6 points. In their next match against China, Park played the entire game, scoring a goal in the 50th minute to help South Korea to a 3–0 win. In the quarterfinal match against Uzbekistan, Park was once again influential in leading Korea to victory. Park scored his third goal of the tournament a few minutes into the first period of extra time, after the teams played to a 1–1 draw in normal time. South Korea eventually won the game 3–1, and Park was substituted in the 108th minute. Although Park played in the semifinal match against UAE, he was unable to find the net and South Korea lost 0–1 after UAE scored in the last minute of extra time. In the bronze medal game against Iran, Park scored his fourth goal of the tournament. With South Korea trailing 3–1, Park tapped in the ball from a cross to bring the score to 3–2. South Korea eventually won 4–3 to secure the bronze medal, with two goals from Ji Dong-Won.
Although Park had been listed on the roster for the 2011 Asian Cup, he was unable to participate due to an injury and was replaced by Koo Ja-Cheol. However, he has been named captain of the national team to replace Park Ji-Sung, who retired from the national team after the tournament.
Park has had a tremendous individual start to South Korea's 2014 World Cup Qualification campaign, scoring in every game thus far for a total of five goals in three games. He also scored a brace in the friendly against Poland on October 7, netting both of Korea's goals in the 2–2 tie. In the first game, against Lebanon - scored a hat-trick with a win of 6–0, second game against Kuwait - scored one with a tie of 1–1. In the most recent game, which was against UAE scored one goal from an assist of Seo Jung-Jin with a win of 2–1.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||||||
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| Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | ||
| FC Seoul | 2005 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | 32 | 18 | 5 |
| 2006 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 32 | 10 | 1 | |
| 2007 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | 15 | 5 | 5 | |
| 2008 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | - | - | - | 17 | 2 | 6 | |
| Total | 69 | 23 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 1 | - | - | - | 96 | 35 | 17 | |
| Monaco | 2008–09 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 35 | 5 | 6 |
| 2009–10 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 33 | 9 | 3 | |
| 2010–11 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 35 | 12 | 3 | |
| Total | 91 | 25 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 103 | 26 | 12 | |
| Arsenal | 2011–12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| Career total | 160 | 48 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 203 | 62 | 29 | |
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