Jeff Yu, or Yu Ji-Young, (born October 30, 1978) is a former
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
player.
Yu is the first American football (soccer) player to have played in the
Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, people from the Korean peninsula or of Korean descent
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Korean
**Korean dialects
**See also: North–South differences in t ...
K-League
K League () is South Korea's professional football league. It includes the first division K League 1 and the second division K League 2. Clubs competing in the K League have won a record total of twelve AFC Champions League titles, the top conti ...
. He represented
Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i in 2000 and
Bucheon SK in 2001.
Yu had a brief spell with
VfL Osnabrück
VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis but is by far best known for its Association football, football section.
The footba ...
in the German
2. Bundesliga.
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1978 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
K League 1 players
Ulsan HD FC players
Jeju SK FC players
American expatriate men's soccer players
American sportspeople of Korean descent
Averett University alumni
Men's association football forwards