Cha Bum-kun
Cha Bum -kun ( Korean spelling of the surname precedes the given name; May 22nd, 1953 in Hwaseong, South Korea ) is a former South Korean football player.
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Career as a player
In the club
Cha began 15 years ago with the game of football and joined the Air Force Sports Club Seoul. Already at the age of 19 he was South Korean national team. In 1978 he moved to Germany in the Bundesliga for SV Darmstadt 98 However, for the Darmstadt he completed just a game, as he had in the meantime returned to South Korea to complete his military service.
Back in Germany Eintracht Frankfurt took him to the 1979/80 season under contract. There he quickly convinced and was the first Round of ordinary player with Eintracht won the UEFA Cup at the end of the season. A year later he was able to celebrate with the Frankfurt DFB Cup victory. After four seasons in which he came to 122 Bundesliga appearances and 46 goals for the Frankfurt, he moved to the 1983/84 season at Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
With the move to Leverkusen, he was team-mate of Jürgen Gelsdorf who had seriously injured him on 23 August 1980, a much-discussed challenge. While saw then exposed serious allegations Gelsdorf him the deeply religious Christian Cha took into custody because he asked him not intentional. His time in Leverkusen was as successful as in Frankfurt. From the beginning, he was a regular and crowned his time in Leverkusen with the new UEFA Cup victory in 1988. This was the first title in football for Bayer 04, at the same time Cha was the first Bundesliga player to achieve this success with two different clubs. In 1989, he finally ended his career after 185 games ( 52 goals) for Leverkusen and returned to South Korea.
During his playing days at Eintracht Frankfurt tabloid journalists had covered him with the nickname " Cha -Bum ", which should be a reference to his scoring prowess lautmalerischere.
With the national
For South Korea, Cha Bum -kun played 127 international matches in which he scored 55 goals. The greatest success in his four -year-old national team career with South Korea and their conclusion was to participate in the Football World Cup 1986 in Mexico. In the 1-1 draw against Bulgaria South Korea could win the first World Championship point in its history. He is the first non-European soccer players and to date the youngest player who achieved the 100th. 15 December 1978 to 10 February 1989 and June 22, 1990 he was the world record holder with 116-121 games, he was of Hussain Saeed ( if its nine games at the Olympic Games in 1980, 1984 and 1988, the 21 qualifiers to be considered, and the two games against the Danish league team ) or Peter Shilton replaced.
From the Asian Football Confederation, he was awarded as Asia's player of the 20th century.
Career as a coach
Following his playing career, he earned the coaching license at the Cologne Sports University. In 1990 he opened in South Korea own football school. In the K-League, the top division of South Korea, he coached from 1991 to 1994, the Ulsan Hyundai Tigers.
Later he took over the training of the South Korean national football team, with him after qualifying for the 1998 World Cup in France. He promised the first victory of South Korea at the World Cup and reaching the second round. However, after the second defeat, a 0-5 against the Netherlands, Cha has been released during the tournament. Shortly thereafter, in the largest monthly political magazine South Korea appeared an older interview in which Cha was very outspoken about corruption and bribery in the South Korean football. Subsequently, he was charged with a five-year ban on working.
Cha then went to China and trained the Chinese first division Pingan from Shenzhen. He went back to South Korea in early 2004 and trained since the K -League Suwon Samsung Bluewings. With these, he won in 2004 and 2008, the South Korean Championships, the 2005 A3 Champions Cup in 2009 and the Pan - Pacific Championship. After a weak 2009 season, which ended on place 10, Cha announced in May 2010 when the Bluewings were in last place, offered to resign.
Achievements
As a player
- Second place in the Asian Cup 1972
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1980 with Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen 1988
- DFB Cup winner: 1981 with Eintracht Frankfurt
As a coach
- K- League champions: 2004 and 2008 with the Suwon Samsung Bluewings
- A3 Champions Cup: 2005 with the Suwon Samsung Bluewings
- Pan - Pacific Championship: 2009 with the Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Cha Bum -kun in poetry
Cha Bum-Kun is the subject of a poem by the writer Eckhard Henscheid, the "Hymn to Bum Kun Cha " ( in parodic spirit of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's ode " The Zürchersee " ), published in " A Scharmanter Bauer". Excerpts here the first verse (of ten):
It is nice, Mother Nature, your invention splendor, The big idea could, the Dreaming boy to think - and then to Forming on the fast, animated, exulting Feet of the young man: Flink, flitting, Shimmering and flickering - not long fackelnd, But firing and celebrating; the sentient heart Frankfurt to rejoice. Bum Kun Cha! Friend from the East! 're stranger You no longer - not bitt'res lot is exile You! Home, the second, did you think of them.
Family
His son Du- ri played in Germany also for Eintracht Frankfurt as well as for FSV Mainz 05, TuS Koblenz, SC Freiburg and last Fortuna Dusseldorf.
Trivia
The German band Bum Khun Cha Youth, in addition to other Jens Friebe played, named after Cha.