Kim Do-heon
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| Date of birth | 14 July 1982 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dongducheon, Gyeonggi, South Korea | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Seongnam FC | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Tongjin High School | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2005 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 85 | (7) | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Seongnam Ilhwa | 76 | (15) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | → West Bromwich Albion (Loan) | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | West Bromwich Albion | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2014 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 73 | (11) | ||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | → Police FC (Military service) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Seongnam FC | 64 | (11) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | South Korea U-23 | 43 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2003–2012 | South Korea | 62 | (12) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 31 May 2012 |
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| Kim Do-heon | |
| Hangul | 김두현 |
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| Hanja | 金斗炫 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Du-hyeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Tuhyŏn |
Kim Do-Heon (Hangul: 김두현, Korean pronunciation: [kim.du.ɦjʌŋ]; born 14 July 1982) is a South Korean football midfielder who currently plays for K-League side Seongnam FC.
A midfielder with great technical skills, West Brom's manager Tony Mowbray compared Kim's accurate passing skill with that of a gridiron quarterback. Kim Do-Heon turned professional with Suwon Samsung Bluewings in 2001, where he won the 2004 Korean Championship before a move to Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in June 2005. Due to his impressive game reading and consistent performances, he is widely known in Asia as the "Asian Paul Scholes", due to comparisons between him and the Manchester United and former England international midfielder.
Kim spent a few days on trial at West Bromwich Albion during December 2007, and at the end of the January transfer window moved to the club on loan for the rest of the season, with a view to a permanent deal. He scored his first goal for West Brom in the final match of the season against QPR, eight minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. Albion went on to win 2–0, securing them the Football League Championship title and promotion to the Premier League. 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.
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