Choe Myong-ho (

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: 최명호, born 3 July 1988) is a

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

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er who currently plays for

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in the

Cambodian Premier League The Cambodian Premier League ( km, លីគកំពូលកម្ពុជា, ) is the highest professional football division in Cambodia and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Cambodian League 2. Starting with the 2022 ...

Career

Born in

Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populatio ...

, Choe was one of the first native North Koreans to join a club abroad,

Krylia Sovetov Samara PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara (russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб «Крылья Советов» Самара) is a football club from Russia based in Samara. It returned to the Russian Premier League for the 20 ...

of the

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

and the first to play in Russia. He was selected as the 2005 AFC Youth Player of the Year. Before moving to

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, Choe Myong-ho had played for the Ministry of Light Industry team ( Kyonggongop) in the

DPR Korea League The DPR Korea Football League (Chosŏn'gŭl: 조선민주주의인민공화국 축구 리그) is North Korea's association football league. It has a first division DPR Korea Premier Football League, a second division DPR Korea Football League 2, ...

of his native country. Due to his remarkable skills and talent the player has been called the "North Korean

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". Despite moving to the Russian club in 2006, Choe only made his full debut for the first team on 27 June 2007, in the Russian Cup, as Krylia Sovetov lost to KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny, by a single goal. Choe wasn't registered by Krylia to play in the 2009 season.

International career

He was a member of his country's U-17 national team and took part in the

2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship The 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the eleventh edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Lima, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Piura and Iquitos in Peru between 16 September and 2 October 2005. Players born after 1 January 1988 could participa ...

(scoring three times in four games), as well as the

2006 AFC U-17 Championship The 2006 AFC U-17 Championship was the 12th competition of the AFC U-17 Championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which was held between 3 and 19 September 2006 in Singapore. Japan won their second title with a 4–2 win a ...

International goals

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* * 1988 births Living people Expatriate footballers in Russia PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players North Korean footballers North Korean expatriate footballers North Korean expatriate sportspeople in Russia Sportspeople from Pyongyang Pyongyang Sports Club players 2011 AFC Asian Cup players Kyonggongopsong Sports Club players Russian Premier League players Asian Young Footballer of the Year winners Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games Expatriate footballers in Cambodia Association football midfielders Asian Games competitors for North Korea North Korea international footballers {{NorthKorea-footy-bio-stub