Cha Bum-kun

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Cha Bum-kun
Cha Bum Kun.jpg
Cha Bum-kun (1979)
Personnel
birthday May 22, 1953
place of birth Hwaseong ,  South Korea
size 177 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1972-1975 Korea University
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1976 Seoul Trust Bank FC
1976-1979 Air Force FC
1978-1979 SV Darmstadt 98 1 0(0)
1979-1983 Eintracht Frankfurt 122 (46)
1983-1989 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 185 (52)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970-1972 South Korea U20
1972-1986 South Korea 135 (58)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991-1994 Ulsan Hyundai Tigers
1997-1998 South Korea
1998-1999 FC Shenzhen
2004-2010 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
1 Only league games are given.
Korean spelling
Hangeul 차범근
Hanja 車範根
Revised
Romanization 		Cha Beom-geun
McCune-
Reischauer 		Ch'a Pŏmkŭn

Cha Bum-kun (born May 22, 1953 in Hwaseong ) is a former South Korean soccer player .

Career as a player

In the club

Cha started playing soccer at the age of 15 and joined the Air Force soccer club. He became a South Korean national player at the age of 19. In 1978 he moved to Germany in the Bundesliga for SV Darmstadt 98 . However, he only played one game for the Darmstadt team as he had to return to South Korea in the meantime to do his military service.

Back in Germany, Eintracht Frankfurt signed him for the 1979/80 season . There he convinced quickly and was a regular from the first day of play, winning the UEFA Cup with Eintracht at the end of the season . A year later he was able to celebrate the DFB Cup victory with Frankfurt. After four seasons in which he made 122 Bundesliga appearances and 46 goals for Frankfurt, he moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen for the 1983/84 season .

When he moved to Leverkusen, he became a club mate of Jürgen Gelsdorf , who had seriously injured him on August 23, 1980 with a much discussed foul. While Gelsdorf found himself exposed to serious accusations afterwards, the deeply religious Christian Cha took him under protection, as he did not assume that he was intentional. His time in Leverkusen was just as successful as in Frankfurt. He was a regular player from the start and crowned his time in Leverkusen with another UEFA Cup victory in 1988. This was Bayer 04's first football title, and Cha was the first Bundesliga player to achieve this success with two different clubs. In 1989 he finally ended his active career after 185 games (52 goals) for Leverkusen and returned to South Korea.

During his active time at Eintracht Frankfurt, tabloid journalists nicknamed him “Tscha-Bum”, which was supposed to represent a more onomatopoeic reference to his dangerousness in scoring.

With the national team

For South Korea, Cha Bum-kun played 127 international matches in which he scored 55 goals. The greatest success in his 14-year national team career with South Korea and its completion was participation in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. In the 1-1 draw against Bulgaria , South Korea scored the first World Cup point in its history.

He is the first non-European football player and to date the youngest player to make 100 international matches. From December 15, 1978 to February 10, 1989 and June 22, 1990, he was world record holder with 116 to 121 games, then he was replaced by Hussain Saeed (if his nine games at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, the 21 qualifying games , and the two games against the Danish league team are taken into account) and Peter Shilton .

The Asian Football Confederation named him the Asian Footballer of the 20th Century .

Career as a coach

Following his active career, he acquired a trainer license at the Cologne Sports University. In 1990 he opened his own soccer school in South Korea. In the K-League , the first division of South Korea, he coached the Ulsan Hyundai Tigers from 1991 to 1994 .

He later took over the training of the South Korean national soccer team, with which he qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France. He promised South Korea's first victory at a World Cup and reaching the second round. But after the second defeat, a 0: 5 against the Netherlands , Cha was dismissed during the tournament. Shortly afterwards, an older interview appeared in South Korea's largest monthly political magazine, in which Cha was very open about corruption and bribery in South Korean football. He was then banned from working for five years.

Cha then went to China to train the Chinese first division club Pingan from Shenzhen . In early 2004 he returned to the South Korean K-League and coached the Suwon Samsung Bluewings . With these he won the South Korean championship in 2004 and 2008, the A3 Champions Cup in 2005 and the Pan-Pacific Championship in 2009 . After a weak season in 2009 that ended in 10th place, Cha announced his retirement in May 2010 when the BlueWings were in last place.

Honors

  • Since January 23, 2013, an image of Cha Bum-kun has adorned one of the twelve “pillars of harmony” in the Willy-Brandt-Platz subway station in Frankfurt.
  • In November 2019 Cha Bum-kun was with the gang Order of Merit awarded

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Cha Bum-kun in lyric

Cha Bum-Kun is the subject of a poem by the writer Eckhard Henscheid , the "Hymne on Bum Kun Cha" (parodic based on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's ode "Der Zürchersee"), published in "Ein Scharmanter Bauer" . Here is an excerpt from the first stanza (out of ten):

It is beautiful, Mother Nature, the splendor of your invention,
which was able to have the great idea of
dreaming the boy, to think - and then also to
form images with the
young man's fast , soulful,
exultant feet: nimble, scurrying, shimmering and flickering - not long torching, but firing
and celebrating; the feeling hearts of
Frankfurt to the joy.
Bum Kun Cha! Friend from the east!
You are no longer a stranger - exile is not your fate
! Home, the second, you found it.

family

His son Du-ri also played for Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany , as well as for Arminia Bielefeld , FSV Mainz 05 , TuS Koblenz , SC Freiburg and most recently Fortuna Düsseldorf , before moving to FC Seoul in South Korea in 2013 .

Trivia

The German band Bum Khun Cha Youth , in which Jens Friebe played alongside others , was named after Cha.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cha Bum-kun - National Team Stats by Korea Football Association ( Memento from November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Bum-Keun Cha , www.weltfussball.de (February 5, 2007)
  3. ↑ Bum-kun "Tscha-Bum" Cha , www.fussballdaten.de (February 5, 2007)
  4. ↑ Bum-Kun Cha , www.eintracht-archiv.de (February 5, 2007)
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Cha Bum-Kun - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, March 28, 2012, accessed April 19, 2012 .
  6. ↑ What is Cha Bum-kun actually doing? ( Memento of October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at fifa.com, May 13, 2005, accessed April 27, 2013
  7. ↑ In its current statistics of players with at least 100 international matches (as of August 20, 2013; PDF; 57 kB), FIFA names only 119 games, while the RSSSF statistics (as of October 23, 2002) count 121 games.
  8. ^ Hyung-Jin Yoon, Roberto Mamrud and Marius Schneider: Bum-Kun Cha - Century of International Appearances. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, October 23, 2002, accessed April 19, 2012 .
  9. ↑ a b c Martin Hägele: How the basin farmer of Asia became a traitor. Der Tagesspiegel , December 11, 1998, accessed December 15, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Cha resigns as Suwon coach. In: The Korea Times . May 20, 2010, accessed May 20, 2010 .
  11. ^ Pillars of Unity ( Memento from June 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ 'Bundesliga legend' Cha Bum-kun awarded with the Cross of Merit on ribbon , german.korea.net from November 5, 2019, accessed on June 6, 2020.
  13. ↑ Biography of the Bum Khun Cha Youth on laut.de
personal data
SURNAME Cha, bum-kun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 차범근 (Hangeul); 車範根 (Hanja)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hwaseong , South Korea