Jung In-whan

Jung In-whan
정인환
Personal information
Full name Jung In-whan
Date of birth (1986-12-15) December 15, 1986
Place of birth South Korea
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current team
FC Seoul
Number 20
Youth career
2005 Yonsei University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 12 (0)
2008–2010 Chunnam Dragons 44 (3)
2011–2012 Incheon United 60 (6)
2013–2014 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 43 (4)
2015 Henan Jianye 29 (0)
2016– FC Seoul 7 (0)
National team
2003 South Korea U17 9 (2)
2004–2005 South Korea U20 23 (0)
2006–2007 South Korea U23 4 (0)
2012–2013 South Korea 5 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 December 2016
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 February 2016

General Profile is from Incheon United homepage.[1]

The stats are from K-League Records.[2]
Jung In-whan
Hangul 정인환
Hanja 鄭仁煥
Revised Romanization Jeong Inhwan
McCune–Reischauer Chŏng Inhwan

Jung In-whan (Hangul: 정인환 born December 15, 1986) is a National South Korean football player who plays for FC Seoul as a center defender. Per his performance, Incheon United could make 'the Best Defense Team' by the record of 40 lost goals in the season 2012, even though the team could just made 'the Second Least Scoring Team' by the record of 46 scores. (He contributed 4 goals!) Now, he is one of the best defender in K-League and could be a leadership material for Korean Soccer. Currently, he is the center defender of South Korea, which made his re-debut game at the friendly match versus Zambia and played also in the Brazil World cup Qualification game versus Iran.

Career

Youth career

He started his youth career as the football player in Baeam Highschool placed in Yongin city. From the high school time, he selected for the U-20 team and appeared in AFC U-19 Championship in 2004 versus Thailand. He went to Yonsei University and was chosen to South Korea national under-20 football team.

Henan Jianye

Jung was linked with Chinese Super League side Shandong Luneng in February 2015.[3] However, he joined another Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye on 28 February.[4]

Club career statistics

ClubYearAppsSubGoalAssist
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors200610400
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors200713211
Chunnam Dragons200821202
Chunnam Dragons20099500
Chunnam Dragons201021230
Incheon United201124221
Incheon United201238041
Total (K-League)-13617105
K-League records include K-League Cup records as of the end of Yr 2012.

Playing style

He is very competitive in air ball control based his physical and natural born sense. He is also good at man-to-man defense and pretty aggressive in the set piece situation. In 2012 in particular, he improved his passing skills.

References

  1. Incheon united Homepage
  2. K-League homepage
  3. 记者曝鲁能亚外终确定! 韩国后卫75万欧加盟 at sports.sina.com.cn 2015-02-10 Retrieved 2015-04-24
  4. 河南建业宣布签约三位新援 at sports.sohu.com 2015-02-28 Retrieved 2015-02-28
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Bae Hyo-sung
Incheon United captain
2012
Succeeded by
Kim Nam-il
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