Mun In-guk

Mun In-guk
Personnel
birthday	September 29, 1978
place of birth	Namp'o ,  North Korea
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Sports group April 25th
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2004–	North Korea	at least 44 (6)
1 Only league games are given. 2 As of June 9, 2010

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	문인 국
Hancha	文人 國
Revised Romanization	Mun In-guk
McCune- Reischauer	Mun In'guk
See also : Korean name

Mun In-guk (born September 29, 1978 in Namp'o ) is a North Korean football player .

Career

Mun appears internationally as a player in the April 25 Sports Group , the club of the Korean People's Army .

The midfielder has been part of the North Korean national team since 2004 . Mun participated in the qualifying rounds for the East Asian Championships in 2005, 2008 and 2010 and was also part of the squad in the 2008 finals. He was named the most valuable player of the tournament in the 2008 qualifying round .

After he had already made eight appearances in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , he was also one of the team's top performers in the successful qualification for the 2010 World Cup . Together with director Ahn Young-hak and Hong Yong-jo he was responsible for the lightning-fast counter-attacks and the support of the only striker Jong Tae-se and contributed with two goals in the final qualifying round (1-0 against Saudi Arabia, 2-0 against UAE) for the first World Cup participation since 1966.

Web links

• Mun In-guk in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Mun In-guk in the database of FIFA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In-Guk Mun. Accessed June 25, 2018 (German). 
2. ↑ fifa.com: Korea DPR back on the world stage (Oct. 16, 2009)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Mun is the family name here, In-guk is the first name.