Choi Sung-yong (born 25 December 1975) is a former South Korean football wing-back and

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 ...

. Known for his good stamina and concentration, Choi was noted for his ability for

man-to-man defense Man-to-man defense, or man defense, is a type of defensive technique used in team sports such as American football, association football, basketball, and netball, in which each player is assigned to defend and follow the movements of a single pla ...

. He performed a role to concentrate on marking

Hidetoshi Nakata is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest Asian players of all time. Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player ...

, considered the best Asian player at the time, when South Korea played against Japan in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He played for South Korean national team as a right-back in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He was also selected for the national team for the

2002 FIFA World Cup The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea an ...

, but didn't appear on the field at that time. After the 2002 World Cup, he joined Suwon Samsung Bluewings and helped his club to win the K League title.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Choi goal.''

Honours

Suwon Samsung Bluewings * K League: 2004 *

Korean FA Cup The Korean FA Cup is a national football cup knockout competition of South Korea, held annually by the Korea Football Association (KFA). Before the FA Cup was established in 1996, two predecessor competitions named All Joseon Football Tournament ...

: 2002 *

Korean League Cup The Korean League Cup was a professional football competition in South Korean football. It was held by the K League Federation from 1986 to 2012. Sponsorship Champions List of finals Titles by club K League's principle of official statis ...

: 2005 *

Korean Super Cup The Korean Super Cup was the annual curtain-raiser to the South Korean football season from 1999 to 2006, and was contested between the champions of K League and Korean FA Cup. It was dropped from the South Korean football calendar in 2007. Afte ...

: 2005 *

Asian Club Championship The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competitio ...

: 2001–02 *

Asian Super Cup The Asian Super Cup was an annual football competition between the winners of the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The competition started in 1995, but came to an end in 2002 after both major AFC tournaments were merged int ...

: 2002 *

A3 Champions Cup A3 Champions Cup (also known as East Asian Champions Cup) was an annual football (soccer) tournament jointly organized by the China PR, Japan and Korea Republic football Association. It began in 2003, involving the league champions of China, Japan ...

: 2005 Yokohama FC * J2 League: 2006 Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i *

: 2007 South Korea *

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...

fourth place: 2002 * AFC Asian Cup third place:

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Choi Sung-yong
at KFA * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Choi, Sung-Yong 1975 births Living people Sportspeople from South Gyeongsang Province South Korean footballers Association football midfielders Korea University alumni Gimcheon Sangmu FC players Vissel Kobe players LASK players Suwon Samsung Bluewings players Yokohama FC players Ulsan Hyundai FC players Thespakusatsu Gunma players J1 League players Austrian Football Bundesliga players 2. Liga (Austria) players J2 League players K League 1 players South Korea under-17 international footballers South Korea under-20 international footballers South Korea under-23 international footballers Olympic footballers of South Korea South Korea international footballers Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games 1998 FIFA World Cup players 2000 AFC Asian Cup players 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup players 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2002 FIFA World Cup players Asian Games competitors for South Korea South Korean expatriate footballers South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Japan South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate footballers in Japan Expatriate footballers in Austria