Pak Seung-zin

Pak Seung-zin
Personnel
birthday	January 11, 1941
place of birth	Wŏnsan ,  North Korea
date of death	2011
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966	Moranbong sports group
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1965-1973	North Korea	12 (6)
1 Only league games are given.

Pak Seung-zin (born January 11, 1941 in Wŏnsan , † August 5, 2011 at the latest ) was a North Korean football player . Pak Seung-zin started playing football at a young age. With the national team of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , he took part in the 1966 World Cup in England ; here as captain Pak Seung-zin with the shirt number "8" played all four games against the Soviet Union , Chile , Italy (each group stage) and Portugal (quarter-finals). He scored the 1-1 final against Chile, the 700th World Cup goal, and the first goal in the game against Portugal (3: 5), so that he is North Korea's record scorer at World Cups to this day. In 1966 he was under contract with the Moranbong sports group . In addition, the right wing runner (called the attacker at the World Cup ) was used in three World Cup qualifiers against Australia (two games, three goals) and Syria (one game) in 1965 and 1973 .

Pak Seung-zin was seen in the documentary The Game of Their Lives in October 2002 .

See also

• North Korea at the 1966 World Cup

Individual evidence

1. ^ E 'morto Pak Seung-Zin ( Italian ) In: calciocorea.altervista.org . Retrieved April 22, 2012.
2. ↑ North Korea: Squad World Cup 1966 in England ( German ) In: weltfussball.de . Retrieved April 22, 2012.
3. ↑ Socceroo Internationals for 1965 ( English ) In: ozfootball.net . Retrieved April 22, 2012.
4. ↑ FIFA player statistics: PAK Seung Zin ( German ) In: fifa.com . Retrieved April 22, 2012.
5. ↑ IMDb: The Game of Their Lives (2002) ( German ) In: imdb.de . Retrieved April 22, 2012.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Pak is the family name here, Seung-zin is the first name.