Hwang Sun-hong

Hwang Sun-hong (born 14 July 1968) is a South Korean former football player and current manager of the South Korea national under-23 football team. He was the most notable South Korean striker in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Hwang Sun-hong
Hwang in 2016
Personal information
Full name Hwang Sun-hong
Date of birth (1968-07-14) 14 July 1968
Place of birth Yesan, Chungnam, South Korea
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Seoul Yongmoon Middle School
Seoul Yongmoon High School
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1990 Konkuk University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1992 Bayer Leverkusen II 24 (16)
1992–1993 Wuppertaler SV 9 (3)
1993–1998 Pohang Steelers 52 (26)
1998–1999 Cerezo Osaka 36 (30)
2000 Suwon Samsung Bluewings 0 (0)
2000 → Kashiwa Reysol (loan) 0 (0)
2000–2002 Kashiwa Reysol 34 (12)
2002 Jeonnam Dragons 0 (0)
Total 155 (87)
International career
1996 South Korea U23 4[lower-greek 1] (0)
1988–2002 South Korea 103 (50)
Managerial career
2008–2010 Busan IPark
2011–2015 Pohang Steelers
2016–2018 FC Seoul
2019 Yanbian Funde
2020 Daejeon Hana Citizen
2021– South Korea U23
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  South Korea (as player)
AFC Asian Cup
Silver medal – second place 1988 Qatar Team
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Beijing Team
Representing  South Korea (as manager)
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2022 HangzhouTeam
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Hwang Sun-hong
Hangul
황선홍
Hanja
黃善洪
Revised RomanizationHwang Seon-hong
McCune–ReischauerHwang Sŏn-hong
In this Korean name, the family name is Hwang.

Club career

After graduating from Konkuk University, Hwang decided not to enter the K League and left for Germany to begin his professional career.[1] During a season, he played for the reserve team of Bayer Leverkusen, scoring 16 goals in the Oberliga Nordrhein, Germany's third division at the time.[2]

Next season, Hwang joined 2. Bundesliga side Wuppertaler SV, but he appeared only nine games due to a cruciate ligament injury.[3]

Hwang joined POSCO Atoms (currently Pohang Steelers) after returning to South Korea in June 1993.[4] He won two Asian Club Championships with Pohang, although he failed to win the K League title.[5] He also scored in eight consecutive matches in 1995, setting a record in the K League.[6]

Hwang spent much of his career in the J1 League and enjoyed his most prolific season with Cerezo Osaka. In the 1999 J1 League, he scored 24 goals during 25 appearances, becoming the top goalscorer. He is the first South Korean footballer to become the top scorer in a foreign league.[7] He was also nominated for the Asian Footballer of the Year award in that year.[8] In late 2003, having finally retired, Hwang has now turned his attention to coaching.

International career

1990 World Cup

An unknown college player, Hwang was suddenly selected for the South Korea national football team for the 1988 AFC Asian Cup by the manager Lee Hoe-taik.[9] He scored his first and second goal against Japan and Iran respectively in the tournament.

Hwang was included in the national team for the 1990 FIFA World Cup after his outstanding performances including seven goals in qualifying campaign. In the competition, however, he had difficulty in showing teamwork, and couldn't prevent South Korea's three defeats.[10]

1994 World Cup

Hwang showed poor performance by scoring only one goal in qualifiers of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, but his form was regained in the friendly matches just before the World Cup.[11] However, his left knee was injured in the last friendly against Honduras before the tournament, worrying his manager Kim Ho.[12] In the first game against Spain, he had two chances to score, but missed both.[13] He apologized to his teammates after the first game,[14] but his poor performance was continued by missing several opportunities against Bolivia.[15] He scored a goal in the last group game against the defending champions Germany, but the game ended in a 3–2 defeat. He was severely blamed for his inexact shots against Bolivia by South Korean fans, and suffered from social anxiety disorder after South Korea was eliminated in the group stage.[3]

1996 Summer Olympics

In contrast with fans' criticism, Hwang was consistently chosen as a striker of the national team by managers. In the 1994 Asian Games, he scored eleven goals in five games, becoming the top goalscorer of the tournament.[16]

Hwang also played for the South Korean under-23 team as an over-aged player in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He contributed to a victory by winning a crucial penalty in the first game against Ghana,[17] but he quit the tournament due to his injury during the first half of the second game.[18]

Hwang looked forward to the 1998 FIFA World Cup to make up for his failure in the 1994 World Cup, but he was injured by a Chinese goalkeeper Jiang Jin in a friendly just before the World Cup.[19] He was disappointed to be excluded from the line-up during the tournament.[3]

2002 World Cup

In the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup, Hwang won the Bronze Shoe award after scoring in two victories against Mexico and Australia.[20]

Hwang was still an important part of South Korea even at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, although he approached his mid-30s. He scored the winning goal in the first match against Poland, helping South Korea to achieve their first-ever victory in the FIFA World Cup.[21] In the second match against the United States, his head was injured, but he won a penalty after wrapping a bandage around his head. In the penalty shoot-out of the quarter-final match against Spain, he came forward as South Korea's first kicker, and succeeded in scoring.

Hwang made 103 appearances and 50 goals for South Korea alongside six operations due to injuries.[22][3] He ended his international career after the 2002 World Cup.

Managerial career

In 2005, Hwang was appointed as assistant coach of Jeonnam Dragons and started his coaching career. He received Best Coach Award from the 2006 Korean FA Cup.[23] On 4 December 2007, he signed a three-year contract with Busan IPark and became manager of Busan.

On 9 November 2010, he returned to his former team Pohang Steelers as manager. In first coaching year at the Pohang, he guided the team to the second place in the regular season. A sound knowledge of coaching, player training, and club training analysis and observation - as a coach, the Pohang Steelers became the FA Cup champions in 2012. The success of the organization under the careful, meticulous, and successful guidance of Hwang continued as the Pohang defended their FA Cup title for another year in 2013 and became K League 1 champions in that year. He received the K League Manager of the Year Award.

On 21 June 2016, he was appointed as manager of FC Seoul. On 30 April 2018, he resigned as Seoul manager with responsibility for poor performance.[24][25] On 14 December 2018, Hwang was appointed as manager of Yanbian Funde. However, he left the club after Yanbian Funde was disqualified for the 2019 China League One due to owing taxes in February 2019.[26][27]

Career statistics

Club
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Total
Division AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Bayer Leverkusen II1991–92Oberliga Nordrhein 2416———2416
Wuppertaler SV1992–932. Bundesliga93??——93
Pohang Steelers1993K League00—10—10
1994K League145—00—145
1995K League2411—20—2611
1996K League13100053??1813
1997K League001010??20
1998K League100022??32
Total522610115??6431
Cerezo Osaka1998J1 League116??00—116
1999J1 League2524??23—2727
Total3630??23—3833
Suwon Samsung Bluewings2000K League00001010
Kashiwa Reysol2000J1 League61??10—71
2001J1 League2110??40—2510
2002J1 League71??00—71
Total3412??50—3912
Jeonnam Dragons2002K League000000—00
Career total 1558710198??17595

    International
    Appearances and goals by national team and year[28][22]
    National teamYearAppsGoals
    South Korea
    198852
    1989128
    1990176
    199361
    19941716
    199531
    1996108
    199883
    199950
    200020
    200172
    2002113
    Career total10350
    Results list South Korea's goal tally first.
    List of international goals scored by Hwang Sun-hong
    No. DateVenue CapOpponentScoreResultCompetition
    1 6 December 1988Doha, Qatar 1 Japan1–02–01988 AFC Asian Cup
    2 11 December 1988Doha, Qatar 3 Iran2–03–01988 AFC Asian Cup
    3 23 May 1989Seoul, South Korea 6 Singapore1–03–01990 FIFA World Cup qualification
    4 2–0
    5 27 May 1989Seoul, South Korea 7 Malaysia2–03–01990 FIFA World Cup qualification
    6 3–0
    7 5 June 1989Singapore 8 Malaysia1–03–01990 FIFA World Cup qualification
    8 14 August 1989Los Angeles, United States 11 United States2–02–11989 Marlboro Cup
    9 16 October 1989Singapore 14 North Korea1–01–01990 FIFA World Cup qualification
    10 25 October 1989Singapore 16 Saudi Arabia2–02–01990 FIFA World Cup qualification
    11 4 February 1990Ta' Qali, Malta 18 Norway1–02–3Friendly
    12 27 July 1990Beijing, China 23 Japan1–02–01990 Dynasty Cup
    13 25 September 1990Beijing, China 29 Pakistan1–07–01990 Asian Games
    14 2–0
    15 7–0
    16 23 October 1990Seoul, South Korea 34 North Korea1–01–0Friendly
    17 28 October 1993Doha, Qatar 40 North Korea2–03–01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
    18 26 February 1994Los Angeles, United States 42 Colombia2–02–2Friendly
    19 4 May 1994Changwon, South Korea 44 Cameroon2–12–1Friendly
    20 11 June 1994Duncanville, United States 46 Honduras2–03–0Friendly
    21 27 June 1994Dallas, United States 49 Germany1–32–31994 FIFA World Cup
    22 13 September 1994Seoul, South Korea 51 Ukraine2–02–0Friendly
    23 1 October 1994 Hiroshima, Japan 53    Nepal 2–0 11–0 1994 Asian Games
    243–0
    25 4–0
    26 6–0
    27 7–0
    28 9–0
    29 10–0
    30 11–0
    31 5 October 1994Hiroshima, Japan 54 Oman2–02–11994 Asian Games
    32 11 October 1994Hiroshima, Japan 56 Japan2–13–21994 Asian Games
    33 3–2
    34 31 October 1995Seoul, South Korea 60 Saudi Arabia1–01–1Friendly
    35 19 March 1996Dubai, United Arab Emirates 62 United Arab Emirates2–32–31996 Dubai Tournament
    36 30 April 1996Tel Aviv, Israel 65 Israel4–05–4Friendly
    37 5–0
    38 23 November 1996 Suwon, South Korea 66  Colombia 1–0 4–1 Friendly
    392–0
    40 4 December 1996Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 68 United Arab Emirates1–01–11996 AFC Asian Cup
    41 7 December 1996Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 69 Indonesia2–04–21996 AFC Asian Cup
    42 3–0
    43 1 April 1998Seoul, South Korea 71 Japan2–12–1Friendly
    44 22 April 1998Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia 74 FR Yugoslavia1–01–3Friendly
    45 27 May 1998Seoul, South Korea 77 Czech Republic1–22–2Friendly
    46 1 June 2001Ulsan, South Korea 88 Mexico1–02–12001 FIFA Confederations Cup
    47 3 June 2001Suwon, South Korea 89 Australia1–01–02001 FIFA Confederations Cup
    48 20 March 2002Cartagena, Spain 94 Finland1–02–0Friendly
    49 2–0
    50 4 June 2002Busan, South Korea 98 Poland1–02–02002 FIFA World Cup

    Honours

    Player

    Pohang Steelers

    South Korea

    Individual

    Manager

    Busan IPark

    Pohang Steelers

    FC Seoul

    South Korea U23

    Individual

    See also

    Notes
    1. Appearances as an overage player (two appearances in Summer Olympics, two appearances in friendlies, including one appearance against non-national team)

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