Cha Bum-kun

Cha Bum-kun (Korean: 차범근; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰa.bʌm.ɡɯn] or [tɕʰa] [pʌm.ɡɯn]; born 22 May 1953) is a South Korean football manager and former player, nicknamed Tscha Bum or "Cha Boom" in Germany because of his name and his thunderous ball striking ability.[4] Cha was known for his thick thighs which showed explosive pace and powerful shots.[5][6] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Asian football players of all time by experts, including IFFHS and ESPN.[7][8]

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

Cha Bum-kun
차범근

Cha in 1979
Personal information
Full name	Cha Bum-kun
Date of birth	(1953-05-22) 22 May 1953
Place of birth	Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Playing position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1972–1975	Korea University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1976	Korea Trust Bank
1976–1979	ROK Air Force (draft)
1978–1979	Darmstadt 98	1	(0)
1979–1983	Eintracht Frankfurt	122	(46)
1983–1989	Bayer Leverkusen	185	(52)
Total		308	(98)
National team
1970–1972	South Korea U20
1972–1986	South Korea	136	(58)
Teams managed
1991–1994	Hyundai Horang-i
1997–1998	South Korea
1998–1999	Shenzhen Ping'an
2004–2010	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Honours Representing  South Korea Men's football Asian Games 1978 Bangkok Team AFC Asian Cup 1972 Thailand Team AFC Youth Championship 1971 Japan Team[2] 1972 Thailand Team[3]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Korean name
Hangul	차범근
Hanja	車範根
Revised Romanization	Cha Beom-geun
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'a Pŏmgŭn

In 1972, Cha had been capped by the South Korean national team as the youngest player in history called up to the squad. He is the all-time leading goal scorer for the South Korean national team with 58 goals and won the 1978 Asian Games.[1] He is also the youngest player to ever reach 100 caps in the world with 24 years and 139 days.[9] After developing into the top player in his country, he left for West Germany and played for Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen. He scored 121 goals in two Bundesliga clubs and won the UEFA Cup with each team.[10] He started a youth football clinic to develop South Korean football after his retirement. He managed the national team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and also Ulsan Hyundai and Suwon Samsung Bluewings of the K League.

Club career

Career in South Korea

Cha was born in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi and became famous when he was a player of Kyungshin High School and South Korean under-20 team in 1970. Cha entered Korea University in 1972 and won the Korean National Championship in 1974 which was the Korean FA Cup at that time.[11] After graduation, he started senior career with Korea Trust Bank FC in 1976. He led team's title and was named the best player at the Korean Semi-professional League in spring.[12] In October 1976, he joined South Korean Air Force FC due to mandatory military service.[13] Cha had a plan to enlist in the Navy FC but the ROK Air Force persuaded Cha that they will move up Cha's discharge six months.[14]

Darmstadt 98

While playing for the national team at the 1978 Korea Cup, Cha attracted the attention of an Eintracht Frankfurt coach Dieter Schulte who had received an invitation to serve as an scout/observer at that tournament. In November 1978, Schulte sent a letter to the KFA (Korea Football Association) suggesting Cha's tryout in West Germany who would be discharged from the air force in January 1979.[14] In December, he left for Frankfurt by taking time off after the 1978 Asian Games and contracted with another Bundesliga club SV Darmstadt 98 by signing a six-month deal but he spent just less than a month in Darmstadt.[14] The ROK Air Force didn't follow the contract with Cha and ordered his return. Due to Cha's complicated military service issue, after his debut match with VfL Bochum on 30 December, Cha returned to South Korea on 5 January and he spent the remainder of his military service duration until 31 May so didn't play for Darmstadt.[15]

Eintracht Frankfurt

After being discharged from the military service completely, Cha still wanted to play in Bundesliga and joined Eintracht Frankfurt at age 26 in July 1979. He made an immediate impact early with his new club, scoring in three consecutive games from third round to fifth round of the Bundesliga.[16] He was also acclaimed by showing outstanding performances which led Frankfurt to win the UEFA Cup for the first time. He was evaluated as the unstoppable player by Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of Aberdeen at that time,[8][17][18][19] and one of the best attackers in the world by Lothar Matthäus who met him as an opponent player in the final of UEFA Cup and the Bundesliga.[8][20] At the first season in Germany, he was selected as a world class in the player rankings of winter,[21] and was named one of three forwards in the Bundesliga Team of the Season with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Kevin Keegan by the German sports magazine kicker.[22] On 23 August 1980, Cha's spine was cracked by Jürgen Gelsdorf who tackled behind him but came back to the stadium after a month.[19][23] He led team's title at the 1980–81 DFB-Pokal by scoring six goals in six matches. He became the top goalscorer of Frankfurt in three consecutive seasons.[24]

Bayer Leverkusen

However, Cha transferred to Bayer Leverkusen in 1983 due to a financial difficulty of Frankfurt.[19] In the 1985–86 season, he scored 17 goals at the Bundesliga which are his most goals in a season and Leverkusen qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time with sixth place.[25] The magazine kicker selected him again in the Team of the Season.[26] At the 1987–88 UEFA Cup, Leverkusen reached to the final and he scored a dramatic equaliser against Espanyol to tie the game 3–3. Leverkusen eventually went on to win the game on penalties and held the European title for the first time.[19] In 1989, Cha retired after the Bundesliga career spanning 308 games in which he scored 98 goals without a penalty goal and received only one yellow card.[10] He scored his 93rd goal in the Bundesliga on 31 October 1987 and became the top foreign goalscorer by surpassing predecessor Willi Lippens's 92 goals.[27] His record wasn't broken for eleven years until Swiss striker Stéphane Chapuisat scored the 99th goal on 4 October 1998.[28][29] As of 2018, Cha is ranked seventh with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the foreign goalscorer standings of Bundesliga history.[28]

International career

Cha played as a striker in the Bundesliga but originally played as a winger in South Korea.[30] He became a South Korean under-20 international in 1970 and participated in the 1971 and 1972 AFC Youth Championship.[2][3] In the 1972 AFC Asian Cup, he made his senior international debut at age 18 against Iraq and scored his first international goal against Khmer Republic.[1] He was named in the Korean Football Best XI for seven consecutive years and was selected as the Korean Footballer of the Year in 1973.[31]

Cha usually played for the national team in the Korea Cup, Malay Pestabola Merdeka and Thai King's Cup which were annually contested by Asian nations at the time. In the Pestabola Merdeka 1975, he scored his first international hat-trick against Japan.[1] In the 1976 Korea Cup, he scored a dramatic hat-trick during five minutes against Malaysia and led team's 4–4 draw.[32] He won ten trophies with 75 appearances and 43 goals in three competitions.[1] In the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification he appeared all twelve matches and recorded five goals and two assists,[33][34] although his knee got a boil during the competition.[35] However, South Korea failed to qualify for the World Cup by finishing as runners-up in the qualification despite his struggle. In the 1978 Asian Games, he contributed to team's gold medal by recording two goals and two assists,[36][37] but received criticism due to his diffident play.[38] After the 1978 Asian Games, he left for the Bundesliga and didn't play for South Korea. His last international tournament was the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals in Mexico, South Korea's first appearance since 1954. He showed exemplary performance in intensive containment but didn't prevent team's elimination in the tournament.[39][40]

Managerial career

Cha moved into management with K League side Hyundai Horang-i, coaching them from 1991–94. His next appointment in January 1997 was Korean national team coach and he led the nation to the 1998 FIFA World Cup; however, a disastrous 5–0 defeat at the hands of the Netherlands in Korea's second group game got Cha fired. He later blamed the KFA for the bad performance, citing lack of bonuses and alleging pro soccer games in Korea were fixed. The association promptly slapped a five-year ban on him and he soon left the country with his wife.

After an 18-month spell coaching Shenzhen Ping'an in China, Cha took up a commentator position with MBC in Korea. He returned to coaching in late 2003 when offered the Suwon Samsung Bluewings position. Cha achieved immediate success with Suwon by lifting the 2004 K League championship, an achievement he ranked as even better than the UEFA Cup he won as a player in 1988. He later resigned in June 2010 as Suwon manager.

Personal life

Cha is a devout Christian and said the three most important things in his life are "family, religion and football".[41] Bum-Kun's second child, Cha Du-ri, followed in his father's footsteps. Du-ri played in Germany and switched positions from forward to defender. He retired in 2015 after three seasons with FC Seoul.

Career statistics

Club

Source:[10]

Club	Season	League			Cup[lower-alpha 1]		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Korea Trust Bank	1976	Semi-pro League					—
ROK Air Force (draft)	1976	Semi-pro League					—
	1977	Semi-pro League					—
	1978	Semi-pro League					—
	1979	Semi-pro League					—
	Total						—
Darmstadt 98	1978–79	Bundesliga	1	0	—		—		1	0
Eintracht Frankfurt	1979–80	Bundesliga	31	12	4	0	11[lower-alpha 2]	3	46	15
	1980–81	Bundesliga	27	8	6	6	5[lower-alpha 2]	2	38	16
	1981–82	Bundesliga	31	11	1	0	6[lower-alpha 3]	1	38	12
	1982–83	Bundesliga	33	15	1	0	—		34	15
	Total		122	46	12	6	22	6	156	58
Bayer Leverkusen	1983–84	Bundesliga	34	12	1	0	—		35	12
	1984–85	Bundesliga	29	10	3	4	—		32	14
	1985–86	Bundesliga	34	17	4	2	—		38	19
	1986–87	Bundesliga	33	6	2	1	3[lower-alpha 2]	2	38	9
	1987–88	Bundesliga	25	4	0	0	10[lower-alpha 2]	2	35	6
	1988–89	Bundesliga	30	3	5	0	2[lower-alpha 2]	0	37	3
	Total		185	52	15	7	15	4	215	63
Career total			308	98	27	13	37	10	372	121

1. Includes Korean National Championship, Korean President's Cup and DFB-Pokal
2. Appearance(s) in UEFA Cup
3. Appearance(s) in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

International

As of 8 July 2020

The KFA is showing the list of Cha's 136 international appearances in its official website.[1]
The RSSSF is also claiming 136 appearances about Cha's international career, but its details have some discrepancies.[42]
FIFA registered him with 130 appearances in the FIFA Century Club by excluding six matches of the Summer Olympics qualification.[43]

National team Year Apps Goals South Korea 1972 23 6 1973 17 8 1974 13 2 1975 18 9 1976 20 13 1977 26 15 1978 16 5 1979 0 0 1980 0 0 1981 0 0 1982 0 0 1983 0 0 1984 0 0 1985 0 0 1986 3 0 Career total 136 58

Competition Apps Goals Friendlies 11 3 Korea Cup 20 15 King's Cup 21 7 Pestabola Merdeka 34 21 AFC Asian Cup qualification 4 0 AFC Asian Cup 5 1 Asian Games 12 2 Summer Olympics qualification 6 2 FIFA World Cup qualification 20 7 FIFA World Cup 3 0 Total 136 58

International goals

Scores list South Korea's goal tally first.[1][42][44]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	10 May 1972	National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Khmer Republic	3–0	4–1	1972 AFC Asian Cup
2	19 July 1972	Perak Stadium, Ipoh, Malaysia	Singapore	2–0	4–1	Pestabola Merdeka 1972
3	23 July 1972	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Indonesia	2–0	2–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1972
4	29 July 1972	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Malaysia	2–0	2–1	Pestabola Merdeka 1972
5	20 September 1972	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Thailand	3–0	3–0	1972 Korea Cup
6	22 November 1972	National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Indonesia	1–1	1–1	1972 King's Cup
7	19 May 1973	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Thailand	1–0	4–0	1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
8	28 May 1973	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Israel	1–0	1–0	1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
9	22 September 1973	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Khmer Republic	2–0	6–0	1973 Korea Cup
10				4–0
11	30 September 1973	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Malaysia	1–0	2–0	1973 Korea Cup
12	16 December 1973	National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Khmer Republic	4–0	5–0	1973 King's Cup
13	22 December 1973	National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Burma	2–0	2–0	1973 King's Cup
14	25 December 1973	National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Malaysia	2–0	2–1	1973 King's Cup
15	18 May 1974	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Burma	2–0	3–0	1974 Korea Cup
16	25 December 1974	Hong Kong	Indonesia		3–1	Friendly
17	29 July 1975	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Malaysia	2–0	3–1	Pestabola Merdeka 1975
18	7 August 1975	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Thailand	3–0	6–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1975
19	9 August 1975	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Japan	1–0	3–1	Pestabola Merdeka 1975
20				2–1
21				3–1
22	11 August 1975	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Indonesia	1–0	5–1	Pestabola Merdeka 1975
23	15 August 1975	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Bangladesh	4–0	4–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1975
24	21 December 1975	National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Burma	1–0	3–1	1975 King's Cup
25				2–0
26	6 March 1976	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Taiwan	1–0	3–0	1976 Summer Olympics qualification
27	27 March 1976	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Japan	2–1	2–2	1976 Summer Olympics qualification
28	10 August 1976	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	India	1–0	8–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1976
29				5–0
30				8–0
31	15 August 1976	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Burma	2–2	2–2	Pestabola Merdeka 1976
32	11 September 1976	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Malaysia	2–4	4–4	1976 Korea Cup
33				3–4
34				4–4
35	13 September 1976	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	India	4–0	4–0	1976 Korea Cup
36	17 September 1976	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Singapore	1–0	7–0	1976 Korea Cup
37				7–0
38	22 December 1976	National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Malaysia	1–1	1–1	1976 King's Cup
39	14 February 1977	Singapore	Singapore	1–0	4–0	Friendly
40	18 February 1977	Al Ahli Stadium, Manama, Bahrain	Bahrain		4–1	Friendly
41	20 March 1977	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Israel	1–0	3–1	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
42	3 April 1977	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Japan	1–0	1–0	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
43	26 June 1977	Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong	Hong Kong	1–0	1–0	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
44	17 July 1977	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Libya		4–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1977
45	22 July 1977	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Indonesia	3–1	5–1	Pestabola Merdeka 1977
46	24 July 1977	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Burma	2–0	4–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1977
47	31 July 1977	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Iraq	1–0	1–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1977
48	27 August 1977	Sydney Sports Ground, Sydney, Australia	Australia	1–0	1–2	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
49	3 September 1977	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Thailand	3–0	5–1	1977 Korea Cup
50	5 September 1977	Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu, South Korea	India	1–0	3–0	1977 Korea Cup
51				3–0
52	13 September 1977	Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Malaysia	2–0	3–0	1977 Korea Cup
53	5 November 1977	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium,[45] Kuwait City, Kuwait	Kuwait	1–0	2–2	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
54	19 July 1978	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Japan	2–0	4–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1978
55	22 July 1978	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Iraq	2–0	2–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1978
56	25 July 1978	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Indonesia	1–0	2–0	Pestabola Merdeka 1978
57	11 December 1978	Chulalongkorn University Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Bahrain	3–0	5–1	1978 Asian Games
58	17 December 1978	Bangkok, Thailand	China PR	1–0	1–0	1978 Asian Games

Honours

Player

Korea University

• Korean National Championship: 1974[11]

Korea Trust Bank

• Korean Semi-professional League: 1976 Spring[12]

ROK Air Force

• Korean National Championship runner-up: 1976[46]

Eintracht Frankfurt

• DFB-Pokal: 1980–81[47]
• UEFA Cup: 1979–80[48]

Bayer Leverkusen

• UEFA Cup: 1987–88[49]

South Korea U20

• AFC Youth Championship runner-up: 1971, 1972[2][3]

South Korea

• Asian Games: 1978[50]
• AFC Asian Cup runner-up: 1972[51]

Individual

• Korean Football Best XI: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978[31][52][53][54][55][56][57]
• Korean Footballer of the Year: 1973[31]
• Korean Semi-professional League Player of the Season: 1976 Spring[12]
• kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1979–80, 1985–86[22][26]
• Asian/Oceanian Team of the 20th Century: 1998[58]
• IFFHS Asia's Player of the Century: 1999[7]
• IFFHS World Player of the Century 60th place: 2000[59]
• Korean Football Hall of Fame: 2005[60]
• Eintracht Frankfurt All-time XI: 2013[61]
• ESPN Asian Footballer of All-time: 2015[8]
• IFFHS Legends: 2016[62]
• Korean Sports Hall of Fame: 2017[63]

Records

• Youngest player in the world to reach 100 caps: 24 years, 139 days[9]
• South Korea all-time top scorer: 58 goals[64]
• Bundesliga all-time top foreign scorer: 1988–1999, 98 goals[28]

Orders

• Giraffe of the Order of Sports Merit: 1975[63]
• White Horse of the Order of Sports Merit: 1979[63]
• Member of the Federal Cross of Merit: 2019[65]

Manager

Hyundai Horang-i

• Korean League Cup runner-up: 1993

Suwon Samsung Bluewings

• K League 1: 2004, 2008
• Korean FA Cup: 2009
• Korean League Cup: 2005, 2008
• Korean Super Cup: 2005
• A3 Champions Cup: 2005
• Pan-Pacific Championship: 2009

Individual

• Asian Coach of the Month: February 1997, May 1997, September 1997[66][67][68]
• Asian Coach of the Year: 1997[69]
• K League 1 Manager of the Year: 2004, 2008[70][71]
• Korean FA Cup Best Manager: 2009[72]

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External links

• Cha Bum-kun – FIFA competition record
• Cha Bum-kun – National team stats at KFA (in Korean)
• Cha Bum-kun at National-Football-Teams.com
• Cha Bum-kun at fussballdaten.de (in German)