Cha Kyung-bok

Cha Kyung-bok (10 January 1938 – 31 October 2006) was a South Korean football manager whose 37-year career, lasting from 1967 to 2004, made him one of his country's best-known and most-respected members of the sport world.

Cha Kyung-bok

Schadarapa(Kim Keun-seok)'s tribute.
Personal information
Date of birth	(1938-01-10)10 January 1938
Place of birth	Jeongeup, Jeonbuk, South Korea
Date of death	31 October 2006(2006-10-31) (aged 69)
Youth career
	Joongdong High School
	Kyunghee University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Industrial Bank of Korea FC
National team
1959	South Korea U-20
1964	South Korea
Teams managed
1967–1968	Kyunghee University (Coach)
1969–1972	Industrial Bank of Korea FC (Coach)
1973–1983	Industrial Bank of Korea FC
1984	University of Incheon
1985–1993	Kyunghee University
1995–1997	Jeonbuk Dinos
1998–1999	Cheonan Ilhwa
2000–2004	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Honours Asian Games 1962 Jakarta Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Cha Kyung-bok
Hangul	차경복
Hanja	車敬福
Revised Romanization	Cha Gyeongbok
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'a Kyŏngbok

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

Early years

A native of the city of Jeongeup in Jeollabuk-do province, Cha Kyung-bok graduated from Joongdong High School and took a bachelor's degree from Kyunghee University, where, during his student days, he played on the national team. He joined Korea Republic national under-20 football team for the first AFC U-19 Championship in 1959 and won the championship.[1] His primary sport, before he attended middle school, was volleyball, but subsequent to participating in and winning a football tournament in the intramural athletic meeting of his school, he started a new career as a football player, during which he played for the Industrial Bank of Korea FC for five years and then returned to Kyunghee University in 1967 as a coach.[2]

Career highlights

During his long career, Cha acted as a referee and, in his position as referee assistant, was in charge of the final match in Los Angeles' 1984 Summer Olympics. He also worked for Korea Football Association as a President of Technical Committee, Disciplinary Committee.[2]

As part of his career as an executive at the Industrial Bank of Korea FC, University of Incheon, and Kyunghee University, he became a manager of Jeonbuk Dinos in 1994. He was awarded Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Coach of the Year in 2003[3] and, during 1998–2004, while coaching Cheonan Ilhwa and after team moved to Seongnam and became Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, make the team to win K-League three times in a row and qualify to AFC Champions League final in 2004, which gained him great affection from almost every fan of Seongnam FC even by now.[2]

His good fortune, however, was not in evidence during his last year with Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. Although he won the AFC Champions League final 1st leg beating Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) by a score of 3-1 in Jeddah, the opposing team ultimately inflicted a 5-0 rout. He resigned from the club shortly thereafter and died less than two years later of Lou Gehrig's disease, ten weeks before his 70th birthday, having spent the last five months in the hospital.[4]

Honors

Manager

Club

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

• K League 1 (3) : 2001, 2002, 2003
• FA Cup (1) : 1999
• League Cup (2) : 2002, 2004
• Korean Super Cup (1) : 2002
• A3 Champions Cup (1) : 2004

See also

• List of South Korean footballers
• List of Koreans
• List of football (soccer) players
• List of Korea-related topics

References

1. "[U-19 챔피언십] 되돌아본 한국 축구의 빛나는 순간들" (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2017-02-21. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
2. "한국역대인물 종합정보 시스템 - 한국학중앙연구원". people.aks.ac.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2017-02-20.
3. "Mahdavikia scoops Asian best player award". FIFA. 11 December 2003. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
4. 차경복 전 성남 감독 별세 (in Korean). Sportal Korea. 2006-10-31.

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