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Date of birth | 9 May 1982 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Playing position | Defensive Midfielder | ||||||||||||||
Club information | |||||||||||||||
Current team
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BEC Tero Sasana | ||||||||||||||
Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||
2000–2002 | Korea University | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
2003–2005 | Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i | 75 | (1) | ||||||||||||
2006–2007 | Nagoya Grampus Eight | 52 | (7) | ||||||||||||
2008–2011 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 52 | (7) | ||||||||||||
2010–2011 | → Sangju Sangmu (army) | 40 | (18) | ||||||||||||
2012–2014 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 41 | (5) | ||||||||||||
2013–2014 | → Al Sharjah (loan) | 21 | (1) | ||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Baniyas | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||
2016– | BEC Tero Sasana | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||
National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
2000 | South Korea U-20 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
2003–2004 | South Korea U-23 | 40 | (3) | ||||||||||||
2003–2012 | South Korea | 71 | (6) | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 August 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 August 2012 |
Kim Jung-woo | |
Hangul | 김정우 |
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Hanja | 金正友 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Jeongu |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Chŏngu |
Kim Jung-woo (Hangul: 김정우, born 9 May 1982), is a South Korean football player.
He started off his career playing for Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i, and then had a spell playing with at Nagoya Grampus Eight of the Japanese J1 League.
Kim joined Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma of the K-League in March 2008. In November 2009, he joined Sangju Sangmu Phoenix for military duty. On 22 September 2011, he returned to his former club Seongnam on being discharged from military service.
In January 2012, Kim moved to the league rivals Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors on a three-year deal for a domestic record fee. He was loaned out to the UAE Arabian Gulf League side Al Sharjah in August 2013.
In 2016 Kim signed for Thai club BEC Tero Sasana on a free transfer for the 2016 season. However, in only the fourth match of the season in a game against Muangthong United Kim suffered a Anterior cruciate ligament injury which ruled him out for the next 6 months.
He was part of the South Korea football team in 2004 Summer Olympics, who finished second in Group A, making it through to the next round, before being defeated by silver medal winners Paraguay.
He represented South Korea in the 2007 Asian Cup. He scored Korea's winning goal against Indonesia and converted the decisive spot-kick in Korea's quarter-final penalty shootout victory over Iran. However, his penalty miss in the shootout against Iraq meant that South Korea went out in the semi-finals stage.