Cho Yoon-ok (25 February 1940 – 22 June 2002) was a South Korean

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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 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 ...

title. He also participated at the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

Honours

ROK Army CIC *

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 ...

: 1961 Korea Tungsten * Korean Semi-professional League (Spring): 1968 * Korean Semi-professional League (Autumn): 1966 * Korean National Championship runner-up: 1968 *

: 1966 South Korea U20 *

AFC Youth Championship The AFC U-20 Asian Cup, formerly known as the AFC Youth Championship and AFC U-19 Championship, is a biennial international association football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-20 national teams ...

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 ...

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 * Ja ...

South Korea *

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until t ...

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 *

top goalscorer:

* AFC Asian All Stars: 1965, 1966, 1967 * Korean FA Player of the Year: 1965

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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 {{SouthKorea-footy-midfielder-stub