Seol Ki-hyeon
Seol Ki- hyeon ( born January 8, 1979 in Jeongseon, South Korea) is a South Korean football player. The striker is currently at the Pohang Steelers under contract and is on the national team of his homeland.
Club career
Although he was advised to begin his career as a professional either in the Korean K- League but in the Japanese J-League, Seol Ki- hyeon decided to go in 2000 the supposedly more difficult path and direct from the team at his University of Kwangwoon University, Seoul, switch to a European professional league. His first club was Royal Antwerp FC, in his first season he was able to achieve ten goals in 25 missions in the First Division, so that the major Belgian clubs were aware of him and courted him. He went to the largest, RSC Anderlecht. His first assignment for Anderlecht in the Belgian Super Cup was better for him not to run, he scored a hat-trick in twelve minutes throughout the rest of the season but get him only three more league goals, but also the first Champions League goal of a Korean.
His second season was better with twelve league goals, but the third season in 2003/ 04 was overshadowed by many injury-related breaks, so that he only came to 19 inserts and Anderlecht Seol Ki- hyeon tried to leave. Shortly after the start of the 2004 /05 it was agreed with the Wolverhampton Wanderers from England who stayed just in the Football League Championship English League second called. Since then he has played quite successful in the Wolves; in 69 league games get him eight goals. Until the summer of 2007 he played for the Premier League club Reading FC and joined the 2007/08 season for Fulham FC. During the winter break of the 2008/09 season he was loaned to the Saudi Arabian club Al -Hilal until season's end. In January 2010, Seol Ki- hyeon agreed with the club's management of FC Fulham a premature termination of the contract and hired in his home in the South Korean Pohang Steelers.
National
His first try for the national team of South Korea, he had, just as he was playing 21 -year-old in January 2000 for its university, since he is mostly regulars; He completed all the games of choice for both the Confederations Cup 2001 and the 2002 World Cup in Japan and his homeland. There he also scored the most important goal of his career, when he was in the 88th minute scored the 1:1 compensation in 1/8-Finalspiel against Italy and thus his home enabled the next round. He was also in the selection of Korea for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but was only two-time substitute, so that he comes to a total of nine World Cup finals inserts.
Achievements
- 4th place at the FIFA World Cup 2002
- Belgian Champion 2004 ( RSC Anderlecht)
- Belgian Super Cup 2001 (RSC Anderlecht)