An Yong-hak

At Young- hak ( born October 25, 1978 in Kurashiki ) is a born football player of Korean descent in Japan with North Korean nationality.

Club career

Already Ans parents were born in Japan as members of the Korean minority. At grew up in Japan, where he attended an ideologically North Korea facing the school. He is a North Korean citizen and does not have a Japanese passport.

His professional career began in 2002 at the Japanese second division club Albirex Niigata, in 2003 he managed the club to promotion to the J. League. For the 2005 season he moved to league rivals Nagoya Grampus Eight before in the South Korean K -League a contract signed with Busan I'Park 2006. From 2008 to 2009 he played for Suwon Samsung Bluewings, with whom he won the 2008 Korean Championships and the 2009 Korean FA Cup competition. In 2010 he returned to Japan and continued his career in the first division club Omiya Ardija.

National

For levy of the North Korean national team is one of the midfielder since 2002. 's Qualification for the 2006 World Cup to come to five appearances and was in the final round of the East Asian Cup 2008 squad, takes but otherwise rare in games outside of the official FIFA calendar part.

In the successful qualification for the 2010 World Cup, he was a playmaker with 13 inserts of the mainstays of the team.