Cho Yoon-ok (25 February 1940 – 22 June 2002) was a South Korean
football
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player and manager. Considered one of Asia's greatest
inside forward
Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...
s in the 1960s, Cho led South Korea to an
AFC Asian Cup
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title. He also participated at the
1964 Summer Olympics
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Honours
ROK Army CIC
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Korean President's Cup
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: 1961
Korea Tungsten
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Korean Semi-professional League (Spring): 1968
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Korean Semi-professional League (Autumn): 1966
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Korean National Championship runner-up: 1968
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Korean President's Cup
The President's Cup National Football Tournament is a football competition, held by Korea Football Association, for South Korean semi-professional and amateur football clubs. This competition was originally one of major club competitions of So ...
: 1966
South Korea U20
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AFC Youth Championship
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1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
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1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
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South Korea
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AFC Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...
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1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
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Asian Games
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silver medal:
1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
Individual
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AFC Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...
top goalscorer:
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
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AFC Asian All Stars: 1965, 1966, 1967
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Korean FA Player of the Year: 1965
References
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1940 births
Association football forwards
South Korean footballers
1960 AFC Asian Cup players
Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
AFC Asian Cup-winning players
Olympic footballers of South Korea
South Korean football managers
Busan IPark managers
2002 deaths
Asian Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 1962 Asian Games
Kyung Hee University alumni
Footballers from Seoul
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Association football midfielders
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
South Korea international footballers
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