Cho Young-cheol
Cho Young- cheol (also Young- cheol Cho, born May 31, 1989 in Ulsan ) is a South Korean football player at the position of a striker who can be, however, used as a Attacking Allrounder in the midfield. He currently plays for Albirex Niigata in the J. League, the top division in Japanese football.
Career
Career start in Ulsan
After he attended the Haksung High School in his hometown of Ulsan, Cho came in 2007 for the first time to his first professional station, when he signed a contract with the Japanese first division side Yokohama FC. There he came in his first season in nine league games for use and ranked with the team in the final table with just 16 points in last place and so had to descend into the J. League Division 2, the second division in the J. League, compete. In J. League Cup in the 2007 season, it was no better and Cho difference in a few brief appearances with the team early in the group stage of the competition out. In the 2008 it ran a little better for the team, but it was still far from a recent rise in the Japanese excellence. In 24 league inserts it brought the South Koreans with the shirt number 14 this season to only one goal is scored and ranked with the team in the final table in 10th place due to the lack of success with the team is the only one at this time South Koreans decided in the squad for a change of club.
It went back to Japan excellence, where he signed a contract with Albirex Niigata shortly before the 2009 season for him again. Back in the first division achieved Cho on 5 May 2009 in the 3-3 home draw over Jubilo Iwata in the eleventh minute of the 1-0 goal for his team and at the same time the first hit in Japan's highest football league in his career. By the end of the season it was also on his only goal in 25 league games completed with some inserts in the Cup competition, where he, however, one more time with the team already eliminated in the group stage. With the start of the 2010 season, a higher scoring prowess of really skilled attacker was palpable. Up to two -month break from the sporting events before the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa of 1.81 m large South Koreans completed all twelve league games in which he hit five times into the opposing goal. Since only the league operation, the operation was not but by the interruption affected in the Cup competition, Cho came to 9 June 2010 in four games of the J. League Cup in 2010 for use in which the team for the first time has a chance of progressing in the competition.
Internationally
His international career started for Cho in 2007, when he was first appointed to the South Korean U-20 national team. In November 2009, the young striker went down in the South Korean association history when he netted ten goals in a top-class 28:0 drubbing of the U-20 national team against the U -20 of Guam, a never before achieved by a single national player of goals in South Korea. The game, which was part of the qualification for the U-19 Asian Cup 2008 Saudi Arabia was decisive for the South Korean group win at the end of the group stage. In this case, South Korea qualified with the Australian U-20 national team for the tournament in the Middle East. In the Asia Cup, the team managed around Cho with second place in Group B the quarter-finals, in which Japan was dispatched 3-0. Only in the semi-final against the Uzbek football national team separated the team from 0-1 from the current competition. As the top four teams qualify automatically at the tournament for the U- 20 World Cup Egypt 2009, South Korea also took part in the World Cup in North Africa as a semi-finalist in the following year.
Previously, he was but convened in South Korea U-23 national team, which also serves as an Olympic team, with which he took part in the football tournament of the Summer Olympic Games in 2008. However, he retired with the team already in the group stage as third in Group D of the ongoing tournament. During the Junior World Championships the following year, however, it was far better for South Korea, where they even penetrated into the quarter- finals and almost lost there to eventual U- 20 World Cup Ghana 2:3. After the current U-20 national team coach Hong Myung -bo sat before the tournament starts more on the Team Spirit and said that a quarter or semi-finals would be a major achievement for South Korea, this hope was in the course of the tournament also. At the World Championships of the then already 20 -year-old graduated from five matches in which he scored a goal for his team. To date (July 2, 2010) Cho came in 17 U-20 internationals for use in which he scored 15 goals and was also in five games of the Olympic team in action, where he contributed a hit.