Son Woong-jung (; born 10 June 1962) is a South Korean former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

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. He is the father of current South Korea national team captain

Son Heung-min Son Heung-min ( ko, 손흥민; ; born 8 July 1992) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and captains the South Korea national team. Considered one of the best forwards in ...

Playing career

Son joined

Myongji University Myongji University () is a private, Christian university founded in 1948 in South Korea. It provides higher education in the fields of engineering, sciences and humanities. It has two campuses: the Social Science Campus is located in Seoul and th ...

in 1984 after graduating from high school. He scored the winning goal four minutes before the end of the

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 Sou ...

final, contributing to Myongji's first national title. Son spent his senior career in

Sangmu FC Gimcheon Sangmu FC (Hangul: 김천 상무 프로축구단; Hanja: 金泉尚武 프로蹴球團) is a South Korean professional association football club based in Gimcheon that competes in the K League 2, the second tier of South Korean football. ...

, Hyundai Horang-i, and Ilhwa Chunma. He was also selected for the

South Korea national football B team The South Korea national football B team ( ko, 대한민국 축구 국가대표 B팀) was the selection of South Korean semi-professional footballers and college footballers. Most of the members were playing in the Korean Semi-professional Fo ...

in 1987.

Honours

Myongji University *

: 1984

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슈퍼루키 獨함부르크 손흥민 키운 ‘사커 대디’ 손웅정의 눈물과 웃음
* 1962 births Living people South Korean men's footballers South Korea men's B international footballers Ulsan HD FC players Gimcheon Sangmu FC players K League 1 players Men's association football forwards People from Seosan Sportspeople from South Chungcheong Province {{SouthKorea-footy-bio-stub