Park Chu-Young

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Chu-Young

Personal information
Full name	Park Chu-Young
Date of birth	10 July 1985 (1985-07-10) (age 26)
Place of birth	Daegu, South Korea
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Arsenal
Number	9
Youth career
2001–2003	Cheonggu High School
2002	→ Zico Football Center
2004	Korea University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005–2008	FC Seoul	69	(23)
2008–2011	Monaco	91	(25)
2011–	Arsenal	0	(0)
National team‡
2003–2005	South Korea U-20	26	(18)
2007–2010	South Korea U-23	21	(8)
2005–	South Korea	57	(23)
Honours Competitor for South Korea Men's football Asian Games Bronze 2010 Guangzhou Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 October 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 November 2011

Park Chu-Young
Hangul	박주영
Hanja	朴主永
Revised Romanization	Bak Ju-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Chu-yŏng

Park Chu-Young (Hangul: 박주영, Hanja: 朴主永; sometimes romanised as Park Ju-Young; born 10 July 1985) is a South Korean footballer who plays for Arsenal in the Premier League and is the current captain for the South Korea national team.

Career

Youth career

Park Chu-Young's popularity with the Korean public was sparked by his success at the AFC Youth Championship 2004 where he led the U-20 Korean national team to a record-breaking 11th title. In the process, he won the Golden Ball Award and was chosen Most Valuable Player of the tournament. He was also capped for the South Korea U-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

The country's "Park Chu-young" hysteria grew even more wildly when Korea's U-20 squad participated in the Qatar eight-team invitational in January 2005. Park scored two against China, three against Ukraine, two against Algeria, and two against Japan as Korea won the tournament. Park was named the Asian Young Footballer of the Year by the Asian Football Confederation.

Park also participated in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, where he scored a goal from a free kick against Nigeria.

FC Seoul

In 2005, Park joined the K-League, where he signed with FC Seoul. In Park's first season, he scored 18 goals and gave 4 assists in 30 appearances (including cup matches), earning him the K-League's Best Young Player of the year title and becoming top scorer of the competition. He became FC Seoul's club icon.^{[citation needed]}

During the season, he was offered to Guus Hiddink's PSV Eindhoven but a transfer fee couldn't be agreed on.^{[citation needed]}

After Park's successful 2005 season, he was part of the South Korea squad for 2006 World Cup, but he ended up playing in only one game: the third and final match of the group stage, against Switzerland and received man of the match.

After the World Cup, it was expected by Korean supporters that Park would re-find his best form while playing in the K-League, but this was not the case, as he only scored 8 goals and 1 assist in 30 appearances (including cup matches) during the 2006 season.^{[citation needed]}

Later on in 2006, he joined the South Korea Olympic football team for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, where he had a great start by scoring 2 goals against Bangladesh. But after this game, he failed to find the net for the rest of the tournament. South Korea lost to Iraq in the controversial semi-final match and were also unable to beat Iran in the third-place match, which resulted in South Korea being left without medals for the first time in many years.^{[citation needed]}

Just as the 2007 K-League kicked off, Park began the season by scoring 10 goals in 11 matches (including Cup games). But soon he was hampered by a on and off foot injury that he sustained during the regular season. Due to the injury he was placed in the reserves for the South Korea national team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, but he did not recover from injury in time, nor were any of the forwards picked for the South Korea national football team injured or underperformed at the training camp or friendly matches, which resulted in a cut from the South Korea national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Also during his injury, he missed the FC Seoul game with the Premiership's Manchester United. This proved to be significant as FC Seoul were shut out during the game 4-0, and could have used the influence of their star striker.

Returning from his foot injury, he played in the qualification rounds for the Beijing Olympics in which South Korea secured a place by drawing 0-0 with Bahrain on 27 November 2007.

AS Monaco

After impressive performances in the national and Olympic team squads, Park completed the move to AS Monaco on September 1. On September 13, he scored on his debut against FC Lorient in the 26th minute. In the 2nd half, he assisted his team mate Frédéric Nimani before being substituted. The game ended 2–0, and Park was named as the Man of the Match.

On February 13, 2011, Park scored his seventh goal of the season in a 3–1 win over FC Lorient. Thirteen days later, Park scored a brace in a 2–2 home draw over SM Caen.^[1]

Arsenal

On 30 August 2011, English Premier League club Arsenal confirmed the signing of Park.^[2] He was given the number 9 shirt. Chu-Young also announced that in two years time he will have to leave Arsenal for military service.^[3] He scored his first goal for Arsenal in the fourth round of the Carling Cup against Bolton Wanderers (giving Arsenal the win by 2–1), a very well taken finish, set up by Andrei Arshavin. The Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger also stated that Chu-Young was ready for the league following that goal. On 1 November, Chu-Young started his first UEFA Champions League match, a 0–0 draw against French outfit Marseille.

International

He joined the South Korea national football team in June 2005. He debuted in the match against Uzbekistan and managed to score his first goal for the team. By the end of the year Park had scored 3 goals and had made 4 assists with the South Korea.

2010 World Cup

On 17 June 2010, Park scored an own goal in a 4–1 defeat to Argentina at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.^[4] However, Park redeemed himself in Korea's next match against Nigeria by scoring a crucial free kick in a 2–2 draw, allowing the Koreans to advance to the round of 16. In the round of 16, Park's free kick just before halftime struck the left goal post. A late goal from Luis Suárez put Uruguay on top. The final score was 2–1 to Uruguay who then advanced to the quarter-finals in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, eliminating South Korea.

2010 Asian Games

Park, along with Kim Jung Woo, was called to the U-23 team to participate in the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou. The team was led by former national team captain Hong Myung-Bo. Park did not play in the first game against North Korea, which ended in a 0–1 loss. He came off the bench in the next game against Jordan, which South Korea won 4–0. He started the last group game against Palestine, in which he scored the second goal in the 3–0 victory before being substituted. South Korea advanced to the knockout round, having finished second place in Group C with 6 points. In their next match against China, Park played the entire game, scoring a goal in the 50th minute to help South Korea to a 3–0 win. In the quarterfinal match against Uzbekistan, Park was once again influential in leading Korea to victory. Park scored his third goal of the tournament a few minutes into the first period of extra time, after the teams played to a 1–1 draw in normal time. South Korea eventually won the game 3–1, and Park was substituted in the 108th minute. Although Park played in the semifinal match against UAE, he was unable to find the net and South Korea lost 0–1 after UAE scored in the last minute of extra time. In the bronze medal game against Iran, Park scored his fourth goal of the tournament. With South Korea trailing 3–1, Park tapped in the ball from a cross to bring the score to 3–2. South Korea eventually won 4–3 to secure the bronze medal, with two goals from Ji Dong-Won.

2011 Asian Cup

Although Park had been listed on the roster for the 2011 Asian Cup, he was unable to participate due to an injury and was replaced by Koo Ja-Cheol. However, he has been named captain of the national team to replace Park Ji-Sung, who retired from the national team after the tournament.

2014 World Cup Qualification Campaign

Park has had a tremendous individual start to South Korea's 2014 World Cup Qualification campaign, scoring in every game thus far for a total of five goals in three games. He also scored a brace in the friendly against Poland on October 7, netting both of Korea's goals in the 2–2 tie. In the first game, against Lebanon - scored a hat-trick with a win of 6–0, second game against Kuwait - scored one with a tie of 1–1. In the most recent game, which was against UAE scored one goal from an assist of Seo Jung-Jin with a win of 2–1.

International goals

Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	June 3, 2005	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1–1	1–1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.	June 8, 2005	Kuwait City	Kuwait	1–0	4–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.	January 21, 2006	Riyadh	Greece	1–1	1–1	2006 LG Cup
4.	January 25, 2006	Riyadh	Finland	1–0	1–0	2006 LG Cup
5.	March 1, 2006	Seoul	Angola	1–0	1–0	Friendly match
6.	February 17, 2008	Chongqing	China PR	1–0	3–2	2008 East Asian Cup
7.	February 17, 2008	Chongqing	China PR	2–2	3–2	2008 East Asian Cup
8.	May 31, 2008	Seoul	Jordan	2–0	2–2	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
9.	June 7, 2008	Amman	Jordan	1–0	1–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
10.	November 19, 2008	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	2–0	2–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
11.	June 6, 2009	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	1–0	2–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
12.	August 12, 2009	Seoul	Paraguay	1–0	1–0	Friendly match
13.	September 5, 2009	Seoul	Australia	1–0	3–1	Friendly match
14.	May 24, 2010	Saitama	Japan	2–0	2–0	Friendly match
15.	June 22, 2010	Durban	Nigeria	2–1	2–2	2010 FIFA World Cup
16.	March 25, 2011	Seoul	Honduras	3–0	4–0	Friendly match
17.	June 3, 2011	Seoul	Serbia	1–0	2–1	Friendly match
18.	September 2, 2011	Goyang	Lebanon	1–0	6–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
19.	September 2, 2011	Goyang	Lebanon	2–0	6–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
20.	September 2, 2011	Goyang	Lebanon	4–0	6–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
21.	September 6, 2011	Kuwait City	Kuwait	1–0	1–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
22.	October 11, 2011	Suwon	United Arab Emirates	1–0	2–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
23.	November 11, 2011	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2–0	2–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification

Career statistics

Club

Statistics accurate as of 30 May 2011

Club	Season	League			Cup			League Cup			Continental			Total
		Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists
FC Seoul	2005	19	12	3	2	0	1	11	6	1	-	-	-	32	18	5
	2006	26	7	1	2	2	0	4	1	0	-	-	-	32	10	1
	2007	11	2	0	1	0	0	3	3	0	-	-	-	15	5	0
	2008	13	2	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	-	-	-	17	2	4
Total		69	23	8	5	2	1	22	10	1	-	-	-	96	35	10
Monaco	2008–09	31	5	5	3	0	1	1	0	0	-	-	-	35	5	6
	2009–10	27	8	3	5	1	0	1	0	0	-	-	-	33	9	3
	2010–11	33	12	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	-	-	-	35	12	0
Total		91	25	8	8	1	1	4	0	0	-	-	-	103	26	9
Arsenal	2011-12	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	0
Total		0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	0
Career total		160	48	25	13	3	2	28	11	3	1	0	0	202	62	19

Honours

Club

FC Seoul

• K-League Cup Winners (1) : 2006

AS Monaco

• Coupe de France Runner-up (1) : 2009-10

International

• AFC U-19 Championship : 2004
• Qatar Youth Championship : 2004
• East Asian Football Championship : 2008

Individual

Youth

• Daegu MBC U-18 Championship Top Scorer : 2003
• Keumgangdaegi U-18 Championship Top Scorer : 2003
• President's U-18 Championship Top Scorer : 2003
• Autumn's U-18 Championship Top Scorer : 2003

Club

• K-League Rookie of the Year : 2005
• K-League Best XI : 2005
• South Korea Golden Ball : 2005
• South Korea Golden Shoe : 2005
• South Korea Most Popular Player : 2005, 2006
• K-League Players' Player of the Year : 2008

International

• AFC U-19 Championship MVP : 2004
• AFC U-19 Championship Top Scorer : 2004
• Qatar Youth Championship MVP : 2004
• Qatar Youth Championship Top Scorer : 2004
• AFC Asian Young Footballer of the Year: 2004

References

1. ^ "Match Stats AS Monaco FC - SM Caen". ligue1.com. 2011-02-26. http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/feuille_match/53900. 
2. ^ "Arsenal seal Park Chu-Young deal". ESPN Soccernet. 30 August 2011. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/950986/arsenal-seal-deal-for-striker-park-chu-young?cc=5739. Retrieved 30 August 2011. 
3. ^ "Arsenal to sign striker Ju Young Park". arsenal.com. 2011-08-30. http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-to-sign-striker-chu-young-park. 
4. ^ Stevenson, Jonathan (2010-06-17). "Argentina 4–1 South Korea". BBC Sport (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/matches/match_18/default.stm. Retrieved 2010-06-17. 

External links

• AS MONACO FOOTBALL CLUB – OFFICIAL SITE – Team
• K-League Official Website : Player Profile (Korean)
• National Team Player Record (Korean)
• France Football League Player Profile
• FIFA Player Statistics
• Park Chu-Young at National-Football-Teams.com

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Name	Park, Chu-Young
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Date of birth	10 July 1985
Place of birth	Daegu, South Korea
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