Kim Do-heon (, ; born 14 July 1982) is a South Korean

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wing-back and

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who is

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club

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC () is a South Korean professional football club based in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Jeonbuk have won the K League a record nine times, including ...

Club career

Kim played for

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and Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma before joining

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. He led each team's

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title, and his technical abilities was likened to Paul Scholes in South Korea. Kim spent a few days on trial at West Brom in December 2007, and could be loaned to the club from February with an option for a permanent switch at the end of the season. He scored his first goal for West Brom in the final match of the season against

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, eight minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. West Brom went on to win 2–0, securing them the

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title and promotion to the

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. On 28 May, he completed the move to West Brom for £550,000. Kim made his Premier League debut on 16 August 2008 against Arsenal, where they lost the match 1–0. He scored once after the permanent move, in a 2–2 draw with Burnley in the FA Cup on 24 January 2009. After one and a half years in

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, he returned to South Korea. Near the end of his playing career, he played for

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side

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, and

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International career

Kim played as a main playmaker for the national under-23 team in

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and 2006 Asian Games, whereas he was criticised for his unstable performance in senior team. It was his biggest desire to play in the

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, but he finally could not appear in a World Cup match. While he was a member of South Korea's squad for the

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, he had to watch his team's matches on the bench. On 14 June 2008, Kim accomplished his first international

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in a World Cup qualifier against

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Personal life

Kim is married to Jung Hye-won, who gave birth to their son on 12 August 2008. He delayed his return to Korea to visit his son for the first time, in order to participate in the opening games of the 2008–09 Premier League season.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Suwon Samsung Bluewings *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

* Korean Super Cup: 2005 *

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: 2000–01, 2001–02 * Asian Super Cup:

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* Pan-Pacific Championship:

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

runner-up:

West Bromwich Albion *

: 2007–08 South Korea U23 *

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bronze medal:

South Korea *

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third place:

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

* EAFF Championship:

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

Individual * K League All-Star: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015 * K League 1 Best XI:

* K League 1 Most Valuable Player:

* Korean FA Goal of the Year: 2006 * K League Players' Player of the Year:

Notes

References

External links

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National Team Player Record
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Kim Do-heon – National Team stats
at KFA * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Do-heon 1982 births Living people Men's association football midfielders South Korean men's footballers South Korean expatriate men's footballers South Korea men's international footballers Suwon Samsung Bluewings players Negeri Sembilan FC players Seongnam FC players Asan Mugunghwa FC players South Korean expatriate sportspeople in England West Bromwich Albion F.C. players K League 1 players English Football League players Premier League players Expatriate men's footballers in England 2006 FIFA World Cup players 2007 AFC Asian Cup players Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for South Korea Footballers from Gyeonggi Province Asian Games medalists in football Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Indy Eleven players USL Championship players Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors managers K League 1 managers AFC Champions League Elite–winning players 21st-century South Korean sportsmen