Choi Kang-hee (soccer player)

Choi Kang-hee
Personnel
birthday	April 12, 1959
place of birth	Yangpyeong ,  South Korea
size	175 cm
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983	POSCO Dolphins	3 0(0)
1984-1992	Hyundai Horang-i	184 (10)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1988	South Korea U-23 (Olympia)
1988-1992	South Korea	40 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1996-1997	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
1998-2001	Suwon Samsung Bluewings (Assistant Trainer)
2002-2003	South Korea U-23 (assistant coach)
2003-2004	South Korea (assistant coach)
2005-2011	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2011-2013	South Korea
2013 -	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
1 Only league games are given.

Korean spelling
Hangeul	최강희
Hanja	崔康熙
Revised Romanization	Choe Gang-hui
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Kanghŭi
See also : Korean name

Choi Kang-hee (born April 12, 1959 in Yangpyeong , Gyeonggi-do ) is a South Korean football coach and former player.

Career

Choi Kang-hee began his professional career in 1983 at the age of 24 with the POSCO Dolphins , where he only made three appearances in his debut season. Just one year later he moved to Hyundai Horang-i , where he stayed until his career as a player in 1992. He completed a total of 184 games in the K League and scored ten goals. In 1988 he was part of the South Korean national team at the Olympic soccer tournament and from 1988 to 1992 he played 40 games for the South Korean national soccer team . He was also part of the squad at the 1988 Asian Football Championship , in which South Korea was runner-up, and the 1990 World Football Championship .

After his career as a player, Choi Kang-hee became a football coach. Between 1996 and 2001 he was a trainer and then an assistant trainer at Suwon Samsung Bluewings . This was followed by further assistant coaching positions with the South Korean U23 team and the national team in the years 2002 to 2004. For the 2005 season he was head coach at Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and won the Korean Cup competition with the team in his first season. In 2006 Choi Kang-hee celebrated his greatest success by winning the AFC Champions League . In 2009 and 2011 he also won the Korean championship with his team. In the AFC Champions League , he and his team were again in the final in 2011, but failed on penalties against Al-Sadd from Qatar.

On December 21, 2011, the South Korean Football Association announced that it had signed Choi Kang-hee as the new head coach for the senior national team. He made his coaching debut on February 25, 2012 in the game against Kazakhstan , which ended 4-2 for South Korea. After successfully qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , Choi announced his resignation, as he had previously announced.

Success as a trainer

• with Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
  • 2 × AFC Champions League winners : 2006 , 2016
  • 4 × Korean champion : 2009 , 2011 , 2014 , 2015
  • 1 × Korean Cup Winner : 2005

Web links

• Choi Kang-hee in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ South Korea separates from coach. Report on sport1.de , June 19, 2013. Accessed June 19, 2013.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, Kang-hee is the first name.