Woo Sang-kwon (; 2 February 1926 – 13 December 1975) was a South Korean

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player and coach. He played for the South Korean national team in the

1954 FIFA World Cup The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the 5th edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June ...

and the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq ...

Honours

ROK Army OPMG * Korean National Championship: 1954 *

Korean President's Cup The President's Cup National Football Tournament is a football competition, held by Korea Football Association, for South Korean semi-professional and amateur football clubs. This competition was originally one of major club competitions of Sout ...

runner-up: 1957 South Korea *

AFC Asian Cup The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second-oldest c ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the 1951 Asian Games, first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until ...

silver medal:

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

Individual * KASA Best Korean Footballer: 1959

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Woo Sang-kwon
at KFA * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Woo, Sang-Kwon 1926 births 1975 deaths South Korean men's footballers South Korea men's international footballers South Korean football managers Olympic footballers for South Korea 1954 FIFA World Cup players 1956 AFC Asian Cup players 1960 AFC Asian Cup players AFC Asian Cup–winning players Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1958 Asian Games Republic of Korea Army personnel Footballers from Seoul Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games Men's association football forwards 20th-century South Korean sportsmen Asian Games silver medalists in football