Kim Joo-sung

Kim Joo-sung
Personnel
birthday	17th January 1966
place of birth	Gangwon-do ,  South Korea
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Chosun University
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1999	Busan Daewoo Royals	203 (34)
1992-1994	→  VfL Bochum  (loan)	34 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1985-1996	South Korea	76 (14)
1 Only league games are given.

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김주성
Hanja	金 鋳 城
Revised Romanization	Gim Ju-seong
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Chusŏng
See also : Korean name

Kim Joo-sung (born January 17, 1966 in Gangwon-do , South Korea ) is a former South Korean national soccer player. With the South Korean national team he took part in three World Cups in a row and was Asian Football Player of the Year three times in a row.

Career

After he played for the South Korean teams Chosun University and Daewoo Royals , he was bought by VfL Bochum . In the 1992/93 season he came to 13 Bundesliga games, in the following season, due to the sporting descent of the Bochum club, to 21 second Bundesliga games and an additional four goals. Since Kim Joo-sung claimed that his strength came from his long hair, he was nicknamed "Little Samson" and "Yasaengma" ("wild horses" from Korean).

National team

With the South Korean national soccer team , he reached the finals of the World Cup three times in a row in 1986 , 1990 and 1994 , but remained without a win in all three tournaments. In addition, Kim Joo-sung was named Asia's Footballer of the Year for three consecutive years from 1989 to 1991 . In the election of Asia's Footballer of the Century, he came second after Cha Bum-kun .

Web links

• Soccer in Korea
• South Korea's World Cup participations

predecessor	Office	successor
Ahmed Radhi	Asia's Footballer of the Year 1989 1990 1991	Kazuyoshi Miura

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Joo-sung is the first name.