Cho Young-cheol

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Cho Young-cheol
Cho Young-Cheol.jpg
Personnel
birthday May 31, 1989
place of birth Ulsan ,  South Korea
size 181 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Haksung High School (Ulsan)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2008 Yokohama FC 33 0(1)
2009– Albirex Niigata 37 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007– South Korea U-20 17 (15)
2008 South Korea U-23 (Olympia) 5 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: May 15, 2010

2 As of July 2, 2010

Korean spelling
Hangeul 조영철
Hanja 曺 永 哲
Revised
Romanization 		Jo Yeong-cheol
McCune-
Reischauer 		Cho Yŏngch'ŏl

Cho Young-cheol (also Young-cheol Cho ; born May 31, 1989 in Ulsan ) is a South Korean football player in the position of a striker , who can also be used as an offensive all-rounder in the offensive midfield. He currently plays for Albirex Niigata in the J. League , the top division in Japanese football.

Career

Career start in Ulsan

After attending Haksung High School in his hometown of Ulsan, Cho first came to his first professional position in 2007 when he signed a contract with Japanese first division club Yokohama FC . There he was used in nine league games in his first season and ranked with the team in the final table with just 16 points in last place and had to be relegated to the J. League Division 2 , the second division within the J. League to compete. In the J. League Cup of the 2007 season things didn't go any better either and Cho was eliminated early in the group phase of the competition after a few short appearances with the team. In the 2008 season things went a little better for the team, but they were still a long way from a renewed promotion to the Japanese first class. In 24 league appearances, the South Korean with the shirt number 14 scored only one goal this season and ranked 10th with the team in the final table .

He went back to Japan's first class, where he signed a contract with Albirex Niigata just before the 2009 season . Back in the first division, Cho scored on May 5, 2009 in a 3: 3 home draw over Júbilo Iwata in the eleventh minute, the 1-0 opening goal for his team and at the same time the first goal in the top Japanese football division of his career. Until the end of the season, it was his only goal in a total of 25 completed championship games and a few appearances in the cup competition, where he was eliminated with the team again in the group stage. At the beginning of the 2010 season , the actually trained attacker was more likely to score goals. Up until the two-month break in play before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , the 1.81 m tall South Korean had played all twelve league games in which he scored five goals. Since the interruption only affected the league operation, but not the operation in the cup competition, Cho played in four games of the J. League Cup 2010 until June 9, 2010 , in which the team has a chance to advance in the competition for the first time.

International

His international career began for Cho in 2007 when he was appointed to the South Korean U-20 national team for the first time . In November 2009, the young striker went down in the history of the South Korean association when he scored ten goals in a top-class 28-0 victory for the U-20 national team against the U-20s of Guam , a number of goals never before achieved by a single national player in South Korea. The game, which was part of qualifying for the 2008 U-19 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia , was decisive for the South Korean group win at the end of the group stage. South Korea qualified together with the Australian U-20 national team for the tournament in the Middle East. In the Asian Cup, the team around Cho made it through second place in Group B to the quarter-finals , in which Japan was dealt 3-0. Only in the semi-final match against the Uzbek national team did the team lose 0: 1 from the current competition. Since the four best-placed teams at the tournament automatically qualified for the U-20 World Cup in Egypt in 2009 , South Korea also took part as a semi-finalist in the World Cup in North Africa the following year.

Before that, however, he was called up in South Korea's U-23 national team, which also serves as the Olympic team, with which he participated in the football tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics. However, he was eliminated with the team in the group stage as third in Group D from the current tournament. During the Junior World Cup in the following year, however, things went much better for South Korea, where they even made it to the quarter- finals , where they lost 3-2 against eventual U-20 world champions Ghana. After the current U-20 national coach Hong Myung-bo increasingly relied on team spirit before the start of the tournament and said that a quarter-final or semi-final would be a great success for South Korea, this hope also came up in the course of the tournament. At the World Cup, the then 20-year-old played five international matches in which he scored one goal for his team. To date (July 2, 2010) Cho was in 17 U-20 internationals in which he scored 15 goals and was also in five games of the Olympic selection in action, where he contributed one goal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japan 2007 - J.League (Japan Professional Football League) Division 1 on rsssf.com (English), accessed July 2, 2010
  2. ↑ Japan 2008 - Second Level 2008 - J.League (Japan Professional Football League) Division 2 at rsssf.com (English), accessed July 2, 2010
  3. ↑ Albirex Niigata Júbilo Iwata (3: 3) (English), accessed July 2, 2010
  4. ↑ South Korea - Guam (28: 0) (English), accessed on July 2, 2010
  5. ↑ a b Asian U-20 Championship 2008 (+ Quali) on rsssf.com (English), accessed on July 2, 2010
  6. ↑ Interview with Cho Young-cheol on the FIFA homepage - Cho: "Kaká is my role model" , accessed on July 2, 2010
  7. ^ Games of the XXIX. Olympiad - Football Tournament at rsssf.com (English), accessed July 2, 2010
  8. ↑ Koreans Hope for a Successful Future , accessed July 2, 2010
  9. ↑ Ghana marches on ( Memento of October 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Hong relies on team spirit , accessed July 2, 2010
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Cho is the family name here, Young-cheol is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Cho, Young-cheol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 조영철 (Korean, Hangeul)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulsan , South Korea