Park Kyung-hoon (; born 19 January 1961) is a South Korean

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manager and former player. Park played for the South Korea national team in 1986 and

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. He also won the 1986 Asian Games with the national team.

Club career

Born in the slum of

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, ( Suyu-dong) Park had liked art originally, but he changed his career path to be a footballer due to his financial problem when becoming a high school student. He spent his professional career in POSCO Atoms, and won three titles in the

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. In the 1988 season, he was named the

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, but he thought that his teammate Lee Kee-keun should deserve the award. He wanted to return it, but the K League Federation rejected his decision. In 1993, Park announced his retirement and left for

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to study abroad. He also played for an English semi-professional club

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for a time, and became the first South Korean player to appear in the English

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. In 2013, K League Federation selected him as the right back of the 30th Anniversary Best XI.

Style of play

Park is regarded as one of the greatest South Korean right backs of all time. Nicknamed the "Progenitor of Overlapping" in South Korea, he was the first South Korean full-back to actively take part in attack.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Results list South Korea's goal tally first.''

Honours

Player

Hanyang University * Korean National Championship: 1983 POSCO Atoms B * Korean National Championship runner-up: 1985 POSCO Atoms *

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: 1986, 1988,

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South Korea *

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: 1986 *

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runner-up: 1988 * Afro-Asian Cup of Nations:

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

* Dynasty Cup:

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

Individual * Korean FA Best XI: 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 * AFC Asian All-Star: 1982 * K League 1 Best XI:

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

* K League 1 Most Valuable Player: 1988 *

Team of the Tournament: 1988 * K League '80s All-Star Team: 2003 * K League 30th Anniversary Best XI: 2013

Manager

Individual * K League 1 Manager of the Year:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

References

External links

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Park Kyung-hoon – National Team Stats
at KFA * *
Interview with Park Jyung Hoon, The Jeju Weekly, 13 November, 2010
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