Ju Kwang-min

Ju Kwang-min
Personnel
birthday	May 20, 1990
place of birth	North Korea
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Sports group locomotive
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	North Korea U-17
	North Korea U-20
	North Korea U-23
2007-2010	North Korea	14 (0)
1 Only league games are given. 2 As of February 28, 2010

Ju Kwang-min (born May 20, 1990 ) is a North Korean football goalkeeper .

Career

Ju appears internationally as a player in the sports group Lokomotive ("Kigwancha").

For North Korean selection teams he was already active internationally at the junior level. In 2005 he was a regular goalkeeper at the U-17 World Cup in Peru in 2005 , when Brazil only failed in the quarter-finals after extra time. In 2006, when he won the U-19 Asian Cup, he was the regular goalkeeper of the U-20 team under captain Kim Kum-il , with whom he also took part in the U-20 World Cup in Canada in 2007. A draw against Panama and the Czech Republic and a 1-0 defeat against eventual world champions Argentina were not enough to reach the knockout round.

This was followed by missions in the North Korean Olympic selection (U-23). He stood between the posts during qualifying for the 2008 Olympic football tournament when they stayed behind Australia and Iraq in the last qualifying round and at the East Asian Games in 2009 , where they just missed a medal position due to two lost penalties in the semifinals and the game for third place .

Ju made his debut in the North Korean national team in 2007 in the two first-round games of the World Cup qualification against Mongolia. In the other qualifying rounds, Ri Myong-guk and Kim Myong-gil were each in the squad. Instead, Ju played in all games at the AFC Challenge Cup 2008 , but missed the opportunity to qualify for the 2011 Asian Cup with the team with a 0-1 semi-final defeat . Two years later he took part again with a B selection as a regular goalkeeper in the AFC Challenge Cup . They moved into the final, in which they prevailed against Turkmenistan on penalties and thus qualified for the Asian Cup. Ju had to accept only one goal in the five tournament games in each of the two games against Turkmenistan and parried the penalty of the sixth Turkmen shooter and thus secured his team the tournament win.

Web links

• Ju Kwang-min in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Ju Kwang-min in database of FIFA (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ju is the family name here, Kwang-min is the first name.