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Years
  
Team

2000–2002
  
Korea University


Height
  
1.84 m (6 ft ⁄2 in)

Name
  
Kim Jung-woo

Kim Jung-woo

Date of birth
  
(1982-05-09) 9 May 1982 (age 33)

Place of birth
  
Seoul, South Korea

Playing position
  
Defensive Midfielder

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Kim Jung-woo (Hangul: 김정우, born 9 May 1982), is a South Korean football player.

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Career

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He started off his career playing for Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i, and then had a spell playing with at Nagoya Grampus Eight of the Japanese J1 League.

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Kim joined Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma of the K-League in March 2008. In November 2009, he joined Sangju Sangmu Phoenix for military duty. On 22 September 2011, he returned to his former club Seongnam on being discharged from military service.

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In January 2012, Kim moved to the league rivals Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors on a three-year deal for a domestic record fee. He was loaned out to the UAE Arabian Gulf League side Al Sharjah in August 2013.

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In 2016 Kim signed for Thai club BEC Tero Sasana on a free transfer for the 2016 season. However, in only the fourth match of the season in a game against Muangthong United Kim suffered a Anterior cruciate ligament injury which ruled him out for the next 6 months.

International career

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He was part of the South Korea football team in 2004 Summer Olympics, who finished second in Group A, making it through to the next round, before being defeated by silver medal winners Paraguay.

He represented South Korea in the 2007 Asian Cup. He scored Korea's winning goal against Indonesia and converted the decisive spot-kick in Korea's quarter-final penalty shootout victory over Iran. However, his penalty miss in the shootout against Iraq meant that South Korea went out in the semi-finals stage.

In the 2010 World Cup, Kim Jung Woo played a pivotal role as a holding midfielder for the South Korean team's advance to the round of sixteen. Despite rising interests from European clubs, he left to continue serving his country in Gwangju Sangmu.

Club statistics

As of 2 May 2013

International goals

Results list South Korea's goal tally first.

References

Kim Jung-woo Wikipedia