Huh Yoon-jung
South Korean footballer (1936–2022)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huh Yoon-jung (30 September 1936 – August 2022) was a South Korean footballer who played as a forward.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Huh Yoon-jung | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 30 September 1936 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Jindo, Zenranan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | August 2022 (aged 85)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1961–1962 | ROK Air Force | ||||||||||||||||
| 1962[2] | ROK Army OPMG | ||||||||||||||||
| 1963[3] | ROK Army Engineer Corps | ||||||||||||||||
| 1964–1966 | Korea Coal Corporation | ||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Yangzee | ||||||||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Sing Tao | ||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1973 | Seoul Bank | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1964 | South Korea B | ||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1971 | South Korea | 49 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Playing career
In 1962, South Korea hosted the World Military Cup final and played against Greek national military team, the winners of the qualifiers. South Korea lost to Greece on aggregate, but Huh received attention by scoring the winning goal in the second leg.[4] After the World Military Cup, Huh was selected for South Korean national team, playing in the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1964 AFC Asian Cup.[5] He is also the first South Korean footballer to join a foreign football club.[6][7]
Personal life
Huh was a relative of Huh Jung-moo, another famous South Korean footballer. (Some sources claimed Huh was Jung-moo's uncle.) Jung-moo started playing football after Huh urged him to become a youth football player.[8] He died on August 2022.
