Kim Kuk-jin

Kim Kuk-jin
Personnel
birthday	5th January 1989
place of birth	North Korea
size	175 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Pyongyang sports group
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2009	FC Concordia Basel	20 (2)
2009-2010	FC Wil	20 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	North Korea U-17
	North Korea U-20
	North Korea U-23
2007–	North Korea	at least 10 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 16, 2011 2 As of March 16, 2011

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	김국진
Revised Romanization	Gim Geuk-jin
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Kuk'chin
See also : Korean name

Kim Kuk-jin (born January 5, 1989 ) is a North Korean football player .

Career

society

Kim joined the Swiss second division club FC Concordia Basel in summer 2008 . The transfer came about through the cooperation of a company called Friends of Korea , whose partner is Concordia President Glaser, with the North Korean Football Association . According to this cooperation, the company owns the transfer rights for Europe to all senior national team and Olympic selection players in North Korea. In addition to Kim, his compatriot Pak Chol-ryong was also signed, both signed a three-year contract. The two are looked after by former North Korean FIFA referee Son O-il.

After the license withdrawal and the associated forced relegation of Concordia Basel at the end of the 2008/09 season, he received a new contract with the second division club FC Wil . For this he completed 20 league games by the end of 2010 before returning to North Korea.

National team

Kim took part in 2005 as a player in the Pyongyang sports group with the North Korean U-17 selection at the U-17 World Cup in Peru. He was used in the quarter-finals in all three preliminary round games and scored two goals, but was suspended for the quarter-finals against Brazil after being sent off in the last preliminary round match.

In 2006 he and his team won the U-19 Asian Championship by triumphing over Japan in the final. As a result, they were also qualified for the 2007 Junior World Championships in Canada, which took place a year later , in which Kim also took part and made three appearances in the preliminary round. In 2007 he failed with the Olympic selection (U-23) in the final qualifying round to Australia and Iraq. In December 2009, he took part in the East Asian Games soccer tournament with the Olympic team.

In 2008 Kim was part of the North Korean senior team at the AFC Challenge Cup in India. He also played in both first round games of the World Cup qualification against Mongolia and scored one goal.

Web links

• Kim Kuk-jin in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kim Kuk-jin in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tagesanzeiger: For the first time in 40 years abroad: North Korea's national team is playing in Basel (May 15, 2009)

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, Kuk-jin is the first name.