Kim Ji-sung (

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The le ...

: 김지성,

Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, ...

: 金智星; 7 November 1924 - 12 November 1982) was a South Korean football

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who played for the South Korean national team in the

1954 FIFA World Cup The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzer ...

Honours

Player

ROK Army CIC * Korean National Championship: 1957, 1959 *

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 ...

: 1956, 1957, 1959 South Korea * AFC Asian Cup:

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...

* Asian Games silver medal: 1954,

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

Individual * KASA Best Korean Footballer: 1958

Manager

Yonsei University * Korean National Championship runner-up: 1974 *

runner-up: 1961, 1969 South Korea U20 * AFC Youth Championship runner-up:

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 wor ...

References

External links

FIFA profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Ji-Sung 1924 births South Korean men's footballers South Korea men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders 1954 FIFA World Cup players 1982 deaths Asian Games medalists in football Footballers at the 1954 Asian Games Footballers at the 1958 Asian Games AFC Asian Cup-winning players 1956 AFC Asian Cup players Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea