Ri hyang-ok

Ri hyang-ok
Ri (right) at the Algarve Cup 2015
Personnel
birthday	18th December 1977
place of birth	Pyongyang , North Korea
size	170 cm
position	midfield
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Rimyongsu sports group
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
0000-2004	North Korea
1 Only league games are given.

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	리 향옥
Revised Romanization	Ri hyang-ok
McCune- Reischauer	Ri Hyangok
See also : Korean name

Ri Hyang-ok (born December 18, 1977 ) is a former North Korean soccer player and current referee. She participated in both functions in soccer world championships .

Career

Player

Ri took part as a midfielder with the North Korean national soccer team in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups, where she and her team were eliminated after the group matches. Ri was the only North Korean woman to play all six games over the full length of the game. In 2001 and 2003 she was also able to win the women's Asian soccer championship for the first time with the selection of North Korea . After failing to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics , she ended her playing career.

Referee

As a result, Ri switched to refereeing and took part in the 2014 U-20 Women's World Cup and the 2015 Algarve Cup . For the Soccer World Cup of Women in 2015 , she was also nominated, where he oversaw two group games round match between Germany and Sweden as well as the 3rd place match . She also headed two games for the German team at the 2016 Olympic Games : the third group game against Canada , which Germany lost 2-1, and the semi-final against the Canadians, which Germany won 2-0.

In October 2017, she was one of seven referees on the supporting team of referees at the U-17 World Cup in 2017 , which was the first time women were used in a men's World Cup.

In December 2018 she was nominated for the 2019 Women's World Cup in France .

Private

After her playing career, Ri began studying English. The documentary Hana, dul, sed , published in 2011, portrays three other former North Korean national soccer players alongside Ri.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: Match officials for FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 appointed
2. ↑ fifa.com: Line-up of match officials for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 ™
3. ↑ fifa.com: FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 List of match officials
4. ↑ Oliver Zimmermann: Cinema tip: Hana, dul, sed ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 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. , framba.de. Retrieved June 23, 2015. 

Web links

Commons : Ri Hyang-ok  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ri Hyang-ok in the database of FIFA (English)
• Profile of Ri Hyang-ok on the documentary website Hana, dul, sed

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ri is the family name here, Hyang-ok is the first name.