Pak Nam-chol (footballer born 1988)

Pak Nam- chol (born 3 October 1988) is a North Korean football player.

Career

Pak has performed internationally as a player of the sports group Amrokgang in appearance, the club of the Ministry of State Security.

The defender was at the 2005 U- 17 World Cup in Peru to the root array and failed with the team in the quarter-finals after extra time in Brazil. In 2006 he won the U -20 team captained by Kim Kum- il, the U-19 Asia Cup. Based on this success in 2007 joined to participate in the U -20 World Cup in Canada. He formed during the tournament with Ri Kwang- Hyok the central defender couple, in a group with the eventual finalists the Czech Republic and Argentina submitted two points but not to progress.

As a result, operations in the North Korean Olympic team (U -23) joined, he came at the East Asia Games in 2009 for use where one 3rd place a medal rank fell just short by two lost a penalty shootout in the semi-finals and the game.

At its debut in the North Korean national team came in 2007 Pak in the two first-round games of the World Cup qualifiers against Mongolia. 2008, he served as captain of the national team in the AFC Challenge Cup 2008, failed with the "B - choice " but by a 0-1 defeat in the semifinals. Two years later he was one of the AFC Challenge Cup 2010 again in the squad and realized with the team by a final against Turkmenistan the related qualification for the Asian Cup 2011. Pak came in all five tournament games used.

At the World Cup finals in South Africa in 2010 Pak belonged to the North Korean squad, remained at Vorrundenaus but no use.