Song Ju-hun (; born 13 January 1994) is 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 who currently plays as a defender for

Gimcheon Sangmu 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. ...

K League 1 The K League 1 (Hangul: K리그1) is the men's top professional football division of the South Korean football league system. The league is contested by twelve clubs. History The South Korean professional football league was founded in 1 ...

Club career

Song Ju-hun would play College football for

Konkuk University Konkuk University () is a South Korean private university founded in 1946. The university was founded based on three virtues: sincerity, fidelity, and righteousness. Konkuk University gives comprehensive education in agricultural and life scien ...

in South Korea before joining Japanese football club Albirex Niigata on 16 January 2014. Song would make his debut on 30 August 2014 in a league game against Gamba Osaka that ended in a 5–0 defeat. After that game he was used sparingly and was sent on loan to second-tier club

Mito HollyHock is a Japanese professional football (soccer) club, currently playing in the J2 League. The team's hometown is located in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. Its nickname "HollyHock" derives from the family crest of the Tokugawa clan who governed from Mit ...

. Upon his return he would establish himself as a regular within the team, however he was part of the squad that was relegated to the second tier at the end of the

2017 J1 League The 2017 J1 League (known as the 2017 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (2017 明治安田生命J1リーグ) for sponsorship reasons) was the 25th season of the J1 League, the top Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its esta ...

season. On 10 January 2019, Song returned to South Korea to join top-tier club Gyeongnam on a free transfer after his contract finished with Albirex Niigata. On 9 July 2019 he joined Chinese top-tier club Tianjin Tianhai. In July 2020, Song signed with Shenzhen FC on a six-month contract.

International career

Song Ju-hun would represent the South Korean U-20 team in the

2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the nineteenth edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. It ran from 21 June to 13 July 2013. At the FIFA Executive Meeting in Zürich on 3 March 2011, ...

where he played in five games and scored one goal as his team were knocked out in the quarter-finals to

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

in a penalty shoot-out. He would go on to make his senior international debut on 10 October 2017 in a friendly match against

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

that ended in a 3–1 defeat.

Career statistics

Club statistics

''Updated to 31 November 2021''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社
"2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑"
10 February 2016, Japan, (p. 223 out of 289)

International statistics

Honours

International

South Korea U-23 *

King's Cup __NOTOC__ King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to: Sports Football * Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football * King Cup (sometimes named King's Cup), Saudi Arabian men's football nati ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

References

External links

* * * *
Profile at Albirex Niigata
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Ju-hun 1994 births Living people South Korean footballers South Korea under-17 international footballers South Korea under-20 international footballers South Korea under-23 international footballers South Korea international footballers South Korean expatriate footballers J1 League players J2 League players Albirex Niigata players Mito HollyHock players South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Japan South Korean expatriate sportspeople in China Chinese Super League players Tianjin Tianhai F.C. players Shenzhen F.C. players Jeju United FC players Expatriate footballers in China Konkuk University alumni Association football defenders People from Gumi, North Gyeongsang Sportspeople from North Gyeongsang Province