Park Chu-Young

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Chu-Young

Personal information
Full name	Park Chu-Young
Date of birth	10 July 1985 (1985-07-10) (age 24)
Place of birth	Daegu, Republic of Korea
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker / Second Striker / Winger
Club information
Current club	AS Monaco
Number	10
Youth career
2001	Cheonggu High School
2002	Zico Football Center
2003	Cheonggu High School
2004	Korea University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005-2008	FC Seoul	63	(23)
2008-	AS Monaco	47	(11)
National team‡
2003-2005	Korea Republic U-20	26	(19)
2007-2008	Korea Republic U-23	10	(1)
2005-	Korea Republic	39	(13)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:00, 23 December 2009 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 October 2009

Park Chu-Young (Hangul:박주영, born 10 July 1985, Daegu) is a South Korean footballer who plays for AS Monaco and the Korean national team. He is renowned for his impressive agility, speed (he can run 100m in 11 seconds^{[citation needed]}), creativity and passing ability. He is also a dead ball specialist.^[1] He is a skilled free kick taker, often taking them for the Korea Republic national football team. .

Career

2004

Park Chu-Young's popularity with the Korean public was sparked by his stellar performance at the AFC Youth Championship 2004 where he led the U-20 Korean national team to a record-breaking 11th title. In the process, he swept the Golden Ball Award and was chosen Most Valuable Player of the tournament. He was also capped for the South Korean U-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

The country's "Park Chu-young" hysteria grew even more wildly when Korea's U-20 squad participated in the Qatar eight-team invitational in January 2005. Park scored two against China, three against Ukraine, two against Algeria, and two against Japan as Korea won the tournament. Park was named the Asian Young Footballer of the Year by the Asian Football Confederation.

2005

He joined the Korea Republic national football team in June 2005. He debuted in the match against Uzbekistan and managed to score his first goal for the side.

During the 2005 season, Park had scored 3 goals and 4 assists with the Korea Republic national football team. Park also participated in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, where he scored a goal from a free kick against Nigeria.

Park also joined the K-League, where he signed with FC Seoul in 2005. In Park's first season, he scored 18 goals and gave 4 assists in 30 appearances (including cup matches), earning him the K-League's Best Young Player title and becoming top scorer of the competition. He became FC Seoul's club icon.

During the season, he was offered to Guus Hiddink's PSV Eindhoven but a transfer fee couldn't be agreed on.

2006

After Park's successful 2005 season, the Korean public hoped he would continue to show his good form in the 2006 World Cup, but he ended up playing in only one game: the third and final match of the group stage, against Switzerland. Park played poorly for 63 minutes, receiving a yellow card for a crunching tackle, which resulted in Philippe Senderos' header in the 23rd minute.^{[citation needed]}

Notwithstanding his less-than-stellar performance at the World Cup, it was expected by Korean supporters that Park would re-encounter his best game while playing in the K-League, but this was not the case, as he notched only 8 goals and 1 assist in 30 appearances (including cup matches) during the 2006 season.^{[citation needed]}

Later on in 2006, he joined the Korean side's National Olympic soccer team for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, where he had a great start by scoring 2 goals against Bangladesh. But after this game, he failed to find the net for the rest of the tournament. In the end, the Korean side's lost to Iraq in the controversial semi-final match and were also unable to beat Iran in the third-place match, which resulted in the Korean side being left without medals for the first time in many years.^{[citation needed]}

Park was back in the news a few months later after being named "Durex Man Of The Year 2006", which caused sales of Durex in South Korea to double that year.

2007

Park in a match against Suwon in April 2007

Just as the 2007 K-League kicked off, Park had a great start with scoring 10 goals in 11 matches (including Cup games). But soon he was hampered by a on and off foot injury that he sustained during the regular season. Due to the injury he was placed in the reserves for the Korea Republic national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, but his injury did not recover in time, nor were any of the forwards picked for the Korea Republic national football team injured or underperformed at the training camp or exhibition matches, which resulted in a cut from the Korea Republic national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Also during his injury, he missed the FC Seoul game with the Premiership's Manchester United game, which proved to be a big loss for the FC Seoul's side since they were shut out during the whole game against their opponents resulting in a 4-0 drubbing (but FC Seoul. FC Seoul had missed 3 players due to the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.

Returning from his foot injury, he played in the qualification rounds for the Beijing Olympics in which South Korea secured a place by drawing 0:0 with Bahrain on 27/11/07.

2008

Park has started the year with impressive performances for Korea Republic against Turkmenistan and China. Despite not scoring a goal in Korea's 4-0 victory against Turkmenistan, he had two assists.

In the East Asian Cup, with Korea's foreign-based players missing, Park scored two against China PR to help win the match 3-2.

He went on to score two goals in World Cup Qualifiers, one each against Jordan home and away.

In the 2008 Olympics Soccer Competition, he scored Korea's lone goal in a 1-1 draw in the opening game against Cameroon with a free kick. He later admitted that he meant it to be a cross. Few days later, he hit the crossbar with a header in Korea Republic's humbling 3-0 defeat against Italy.

On September 1, he completed the move to AS Monaco

On September 13, he scored on his debut against FC Lorient in the 26th minute. In the 2nd half, he assisted his team mate Frédéric Nimani before being substituted. The game ended 2-0, and Park was named as the Man of the Match.

On November 19, he scored the decisive second goal in a 2-0 away victory against Saudi Arabia, which ended South Korea's nineteen-year spell against them.

He was named AS Monaco's player of the season's half.

2009

In April, there was interest from Fulham FC but he said that he wanted to stay longer at AS Monaco.

Club career statistics

As of 23 December 2009.

Honors

Personal

Amateur

• 2003 Daegu MBC U-18 Championship Top Scorer
• 2003 Keumgangdaegi U-18 Championship Top Scorer
• 2003 President's U-18 Championship Top Scorer
• 2003 Autumn's U-18 Championship Top Scorer

Professional

• 2005 K-League Rookie of the year
• 2005 K-League Best 11
• 2005 South Korea Golden Ball
• 2005 South Korea Golden Shoe
• 2005 South Korea Most Popular Player
• 2006 South Korea Most Popular Player

Individual

• 2004 AFC U-19 Championship MVP
• 2004 AFC U-19 Championship Top Scorer
• 2004 Qatar Youth Championship MVP
• 2004 Qatar Youth Championship Top Scorer
• 2004 Asian Young Player of the year
• 2008 East Asian Championship Top Scorer

Club

• 2006 K-League Cup Champion

International

• 2004 AFC U-19 Championship
• 2004 Qatar Youth Championship
• 2009 East Asian Championship

International goals

Results list Korea Republic's goal tally first.

Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
June 3, 2005	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1 goal	1-1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
June 8, 2005	Kuwait City	Kuwait	1 goal	4-0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
January 21, 2006	Riyadh	Greece	1 goal	1-1	2006 LG Cup
January 25, 2006	Riyadh	Finland	1 goal	1-0	2006 LG Cup
March 1, 2006	Seoul	Angola	1 goal	1-0	Friendly match
February 17, 2008	Chongqing	China PR	2 goals	3-2	2008 East Asian Cup
May 31, 2008	Seoul	Jordan	1 goal	2-2	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
June 7, 2008	Amman	Jordan	1 goal	1-0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
November 19, 2008	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	1 goal	2-0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
June 6, 2009	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	1 goal	2-0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
August 12, 2009	Seoul	Paraguay	1 goal	1-0	Friendly match
September 5, 2009	Seoul	Australia	1 goal	3-1	Friendly match

References

1. ^ Park Joo-young signs with AS Monaco

External links

• AS MONACO FOOTBALL CLUB - OFFICIAL SITE - Team
• K-League Player Record (Korean)
• National Team Player Record (Korean)
• France Football League Player Profile (French)
• FIFA Player Statistics
• Club & Country Statistics

South Korea Squads v • d • e South Korea squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup 1 Lee Woon‑Jae • 2 Kim Young‑Chul • 3 Kim Dong‑Jin • 4 Choi Jin‑Cheul • 5 Kim Nam‑Il • 6 Kim Jin-Kyu • 7 Park Ji‑Sung • 8 Kim Do‑Heon • 9 Ahn Jung‑Hwan • 10 Park Chu‑Young • 11 Seol Ki‑Hyeon • 12 Lee Young‑Pyo • 13 Lee Eul‑Yong • 14 Lee Chun‑Soo • 15 Baek Ji‑Hoon • 16 Chung Kyung‑Ho • 17 Lee Ho • 18 Kim Sang‑Sik • 19 Cho Jae‑Jin • 20 Kim Yong‑Dae • 21 Kim Young‑Kwang • 22 Song Chong‑Gug • 23 Cho Won‑Hee • Coach: Advocaat v • d • e South Korea squad – 2008 Summer Olympics 1 Jung Sung-Ryong • 2 Shin Kwang-Hoon • 3 Kim Dong-Jin • 4 Kang Min-Soo • 5 Kim Chang-Soo • 6 Kim Jin-Kyu • 7 Oh Jang-Eun • 8 Kim Jung-Woo • 9 Shin Young-Rok • 10 Park Chu-Young • 11 Lee Chung-Yong • 12 Ki Sung-Yong • 13 Kim Seung-Yong • 14 Baek Ji-Hoon • 15 Kim Kun-Hoan • 16 Cho Young-Cheol • 17 Lee Keun-Ho • 18 Song Yoo-Geol • Coach: Park Seong-Hwa