Park Eun-sun

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Park Eun-sun
Personnel
birthday December 25, 1986
place of birth Busan ,  South Korea
size 180 cm
position Storm
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2003 - South Korea 32 (18)

2 As of May 15, 2015

Park Eun-sun (born December 25, 1986 in Busan ) is a South Korean soccer player. She plays for the Russian club FK Rossijanka and for the South Korean national team .

Club career

Park played for Dongsan Information Industry High School as a teenager and was voted Most Valuable Player in the South Korean High School League. After taking a break as a soccer player between 2005 and 2010, she played from 2011 to 2014 for the Seoul Metropolitan Government Women's Football Club , founded in 2004 and based in Seoul (nickname Seoul City Amazones ) in the South Korean WK League.

In July 2014 it was announced that Park would leave the Seoul City Amazones during the season and had signed a contract with the Russian club FK Rossijanka . She signed a one and a half year contract with the club and was officially presented in August 2014.

National team

Park was appointed to the senior national team at the age of 16 and played her first world championship in the USA in 2003 after only 8 international matches . She scored six goals at the 2014 Asian Football Championship and was the tournament's top scorer ahead of the Chinese Yang Li. Her first appearance was during the Asian Women's Soccer Championship in Thailand in 2003 . She came on as a substitute for Hong Kong in the second half and scored four goals in her side's 8-0 win. She scored two goals in the 6-0 win over Thailand and one in the 4-0 win over Singapore. In the final against Japan, however, she was sent off with a red card for playing too hard. At the World Cup, South Korea was eliminated in the group stage and Park remained goalless in their team's three games. But she convinced with her speed and technique. In 2005 she was included on the FIFA list of the best female players.

In 2004 she took part in the U-19 Asian Championship in China. In the 3-0 final victory of her team against the hosts, she scored all three goals with a hat trick and thus secured her team participation in the U-19 World Cup. For her achievements in this tournament, she was named the best U-19 player in Asia. Although she was not used as a striker, as usual, but as a defender, she had scored eight goals.

In May 2015 she was appointed to the South Korean squad for the 2015 World Cup in Canada, in which South Korea is participating for the second time.

Gender controversy

Park, who has a tight shot at a height of 1.80 m, has been asked several times to undergo a sex test. In 2010, China announced in the run-up to the Asian Cup that it would ask the organizing committee to subject Park to a sex test, should she appear at the tournament. Park was then not called up for the national team. In November 2013, six of the seven coaches in the South Korean WK-League issued an unofficial request to the league to have Park tested. Although the demand was never made official, it became public and received with outrage. Fans and analysts accused the coaches of trying to disqualify the best striker in the league in this way in order to win more games themselves.

Describing the incident as humiliating, Park countered that she had competed in world championships and the Olympics and had already undergone many sex tests. The sports association also told CNN that Park's gender was tested by the Korean Football Association in 2004 before the Olympic Games. Park's club filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (KNHRC), which in February 2014 concluded that the coaches had violated the player's human rights and recommended that they be punished. However, neither the league nor the Korean Football Association KFA took responsibility for it and Park moved to the Russian league in August 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Park Eun-sun in the database of FIFA (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Fansoccer.de
  3. ^ The-AFC.com
  4. ↑ Koreajoongangdaily
  5. ↑ Homepage of FK Rossijanka (Russian) ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fc-ross.ru
  6. ↑ a b Fifa.de Women's World Cup
  7. ↑ fifa.com: South Korea - female players
  8. ↑ Koreajoongangdaily
  9. ↑ CNN.de
  10. ↑ Taegukwarriors.com
  11. ↑ Taegukwarriors.com
personal data
SURNAME Park, Eun-sun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Park, Eun-seon; 박은선 (Hangeul)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Busan