Lee Young-jin () is a

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

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 ...

manager and former player who was most recently the serves as an assistant coach of the Vietnam national team.

Club career

He mostly played for Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso, which then changed their name to LG Cheetahs, Anyang LG Cheetahs and finally

FC Seoul FC Seoul ( ko, FC 서울) is a South Korean professional football club based in Seoul that competes in the K League 1, the top flight of South Korean football. The club is owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group. They play their home game ...

. *1986–1995, 1997: Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso/LG Cheetahs *1990: Sangmu FC (military service) *1996: Oita Trinita

International career

Lee Young-jin made his first appearance for the South Korean national team on 23 May 1989, in a 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

. He represented South Korea at the

1990 FIFA World Cup The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event for a second time (the first being ...

, the

1994 FIFA World Cup The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...

, the

1990 Asian Games ) , Nations participating = 36 , Athletes participating = 6,122 , Events = 308 in 27 sports , Opening ceremony = 22 September 1990 , Closing ceremony = 7 October 1990 , Officially opened by = Yang Shangkun , O ...

, the

1990 Dynasty Cup The 1990 Dynasty Cup was a football competition for the top four teams of East Asia. The first edition of the Dynasty Cup was held from 27 July 1990 to 3 August 1990 in China. The competition was won by South Korea. Participating teams * * * * S ...

, the 1992 Dynasty Cup and the 1994 Asian Games.

International goals

:''Results list South Korea's goal tally first.''

Managerial career

On 22 December 2009,

Daegu FC Daegu FC ( Korean: 대구 FC) is a South Korean professional football club based in Daegu. The club was founded as a community club at the end of 2002, and made their K League 1 debut in 2003. Daegu has played mostly in the K League 1 but was rel ...

appointed Lee as manager. In the 2011 season, the club improved on previous season by finishing in 12th place, but the board decided that they terminated his contract. In 2017, Lee became

Park Hang-seo Park Hang-seo ( Hangul: 박항서; born 1 October 1957) is a South Korean football manager and former player who currently serves as the head coach of the Vietnam national team. He is credited for the rise of Vietnam national team's perform ...

's assistant and brought success to Vietnamese football. Ironically, Park was his former teammate. *1997:

Anyang LG Cheetahs FC Seoul ( ko, FC 서울) is a South Korean professional football club based in Seoul that competes in the K League 1, the top flight of South Korean football. The club is owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group. They play their home games ...

(

Player-manager A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the s ...

) *1998–2004:

(Manager) *2005:

(Assistant manager) *2007–2009:

(Assistant manager) *2010–2011:

(Manager) *2013–2014:

Cheongju University Cheongju University is a private university located in Cheongju City, the capital of North Chungcheong province, South Korea. Academics Undergraduate studies at the university are divided among eight colleges: Economics & Business Administrati ...

(Manager) *2015–2016:

(Manager) *2017–:

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...

& Vietnam U23 (Assistant manager)

Honours

Player

Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso/LG Cheetahs *

K League K League (Hangul: K리그) is South Korea's professional football league. It includes first division K League 1 and second division K League 2. History Until the 1970s, South Korean football operated two major football leagues, the National ...

Winners (1) :

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Runners-up (2) :

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal en ...

, 1993 *

League Cup In several sports, most prominently association football, a league cup or secondary cup generally signifies a cup competition for which entry is restricted only to teams in a particular league. The first national association football tournament t ...

Runners-up (2) :

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Manager

Vietnam (as an assistant) *

AFF Championship The ASEAN Football Federation Championship (less formally the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup for sponsorship reason, is the primary association football tournament organized by the ASEAN Football ...

Winners:

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AFC U-23 Championship The AFC U-23 Asian Cup, previously the AFC U-22 Championship (in 2013) and AFC U-23 Championship (between 2016 and 2020), is a biennial international football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-23 n ...

Runners-up:

Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, also known as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with sup ...

Gold medal:

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Gold medal:

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Individual

* K League Best XI (1) : 1991

References

External links

*
Lee Young-jin – National Team Stats
at KFA * * Daegu FC managers 1994 FIFA World Cup players 1990 FIFA World Cup players K League 1 players FC Seoul players FC Seoul non-playing staff Men's association football midfielders South Korea men's international footballers South Korean footballers Footballers from Seoul 1963 births Living people Asian Games medalists in football Footballers at the 1990 Asian Games Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games South Korean football managers {{SouthKorea-footy-midfielder-stub