Ri Un-hyang

Ri 2011 at the World Cup game against Colombia (shirt number 17 left)

Ri Un-hyang (born May 15, 1988 ) is a North Korean soccer player . The defender is a North Korean national player .

She won the 2006 U-20 World Cup with North Korea and was also elected to the tournament's All-Star Team. In 2007 the North Koreans won the U-19 Asian Championship. At the U-20 World Cup in 2008, North Korea lost in the final against the USA. At the 2008 Olympics , Ri was part of the squad, but had no appearances. At the 2011 World Cup in Germany, she played all three games. But then she was tested positive for anabolic steroids during a doping control and banned for 18 months. After her suspension, she was called back to the national team. She won the 2013 East Asian Championship with North Korea , in which she headed the 1-0 winning goal in the last game against China.

Web links

• Ri Un-hyang in the database of FIFA (English)
• Ri Un-hyang in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MATCH SUMMARY the-afc.com October 16, 2007 ( Memento from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Doping at Women's World Cup: Fifa excludes North Korea from World Cup 2015 spiegel.de August 25, 2011
3. ↑ EAFF Women's East Asian Cup 2013 Final Competition eaff.com July 27, 2013

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, Un-hyang is the first name.