Cho Yoon-ok (25 February 1940 – 22 June 2002) was a South Korean

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player and manager. Considered one of Asia's greatest inside forwards in the 1960s, Cho led South Korea to an

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title. He also participated at the

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Honours

Player

ROK Army CIC * Korean President's Cup: 1961 Korea Tungsten * Korean Semi-professional League (Spring): 1968 * Korean Semi-professional League (Autumn): 1966 * Korean National Championship runner-up: 1968 * Korean President's Cup: 1966 South Korea U20 * AFC Youth Championship: 1959, 1960 South Korea *

: 1960 *

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silver medal:

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

Individual *

top goalscorer: 1960 * AFC Asian All-Star: 1965, 1966, 1967 * Korean FA Most Valuable Player: 1965

Manager

POSCO FC * Korean Semi-professional League (Autumn): 1981 * Korean National Championship runner-up: 1977 Individual * Korean Semi-professional League (Autumn) Best Manager: 1981

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* * 1940 births Men's association football forwards South Korean men's footballers 1960 AFC Asian Cup players Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics AFC Asian Cup–winning players Olympic footballers for South Korea South Korean football managers Busan IPark managers 2002 deaths Asian Games medalists in football Footballers at the 1962 Asian Games Kyung Hee University alumni Footballers from Seoul Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Men's association football midfielders Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games South Korea men's international footballers 20th-century South Korean sportsmen {{SouthKorea-footy-midfielder-stub