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Kim Don Jin, football player: biography and photo

Kim Dong Jin is a Korean football player, currently playing for a football club from Hong Kong called "Kitchi". Very soon he will be 35 years old, so expect that in the near future he will complete his professional career. Kim Don Jin plays the position of the left-back, but can also play in the center of defense.

Carier start

Kim Dong Jin was born on January 29, 1982 in South Korea in the city of Tonducheon. He began to get involved in football as a child, but seriously began to study seriously at the higher technical school of Anjan, where he played for the school team. As a result, he was included in the football academy of the club "Anyan Al-Chi Chitas", with whom he concluded a professional contract in 2000 when he was 18 years old. Already in the very first year he went on the field as a member of the club eleven times and even noted the debut goal. However, the young player was not easy to win a place in the starting lineup. In the second season, he played only six games, and in the third - ten. However, in 2003 he still decided to give a full chance, which Kim Dong Jin managed to use: he proved himself with the best hand and played as many as 36 matches, scoring five goals. However, once he got to the bottom - the club started reforms, it was renamed FC "Seoul", and in 2004 the defender again had to prove his worth. He spent only twenty matches, scoring three goals, but gradually began to regain confidence. Therefore, in 2005, he played 34 games already, having scored three goals. As for the next year, he was able to enter the field in 14 games and score his last goal for "Seoul". The fact is that by his speeches he drew the attention of the St. Petersburg "Zenith", which laid out 2 million euros for the 24-year-old Korean defender.

Moving to Russia

Kim Dong Jin - a footballer who gave high hopes, when he moved to Russia. And in the first season, or rather, in his second half, the Korean came out on the field 17 times. In the season of 2007, he already took a place in the starting lineup, celebrating with 28 matches and two goals, but from next year he again began to decline - he was released on the field only in 13 matches. 2009 was the last year, which was held at Zenit by Kim Dong Jin. Biography of the football player was such that he could not play in Russia - even in his last season he came on the field only 18 times, scoring one last goal. And in the winter of 2010, when his contract with Zenit came to an end, the defender returned to his homeland.

Return to Korea

In Korea, he signed a short-term contract with the club "Ulsan", for which he played only one season. However, he managed to show that he is still able to show good football - for a year he spent 23 games, which drew the attention of his native club "Seoul". That's where the 28-year-old footballer went in the winter of 2011.

Return to Seoul

However, it turned out that in "Seoul" in fact there is no place for the pupil - he was too far away from his native club for too long. During the season, Kim Dong Jin, whose photos were on the front pages of all local sports publications ten years ago, got the opportunity to play only 14 times. He scored one more goal for "Seoul", which was the last for him in this club. And in the winter of 2012, Kim Dong Jin, whose athletic career gradually faded, moved to China, where he signed the contract with the club "Hangzhou Greentown."

Going to Hangzhou

This new contract was designed for two years, and the Korean football player fulfilled his conditions completely. He spent two seasons at the heart of the Chinese club, having played in the total of 57 matches and scoring one goal in each of the two seasons. Unfortunately, all the trophies for the player left behind - he won the Korean League at the very beginning of his career, in 2000. Also right before leaving Seoul he won the League Cup, and then, together with Zenit in 2007, won the Russian Championship, and in 2008 he was able to win the UEFA Cup. That trophy was the last in his career. In China, he also could not win anything, and in the winter of 2014 he moved to the Thai club "Muantong United".

Last years

At the time when a Korean football player signed a contract with a Thai club, he was already 32 years old, so his career gradually moved to its logical conclusion. For two years in Muantong United he played 60 more matches, scoring two goals in them, and in winter 2016 decided to return to his homeland in Korea after a four-year absence. Kim Dong Jin signed a one-year contract with the new club and, despite his age, spent this year very productive. He played 34 games, scoring another goal, and in the winter of 2017, when everyone already thought he was completing his professional career, he signed another one-year contract - this time with the Kitches club from Hong Kong. He already managed to hold his first match at the club, having played 71 minutes, until he was replaced. This suggests that in the course of this year the footballer will receive a regular gaming practice, although in a couple of weeks he will turn 35 years old. It is possible that he will end his career in the winter of 2018, and maybe he will continue to play further. Everything will depend on his physical condition, as well as on his desire to continue to speak at a professional level.

National team appearances

In the South Korean team defender made his debut in 2003, when he was only 21 years old. Then he played in the East Asian Championship against the Japanese team. Since then, Kim Dong Jin has spent 62 matches in the national team's shirt, scoring two goals. The first major tournament, which went to a football player, was the World Cup in 2006, where he first stayed on the bench, and the second two played from a call to a call to the position of the left defender. When he was on the field, the Koreans tied with the French, and then lost to the Swiss. At the Asian Cup in 2007, he was in the application, but went on the field only in a match with Bahrain. In 2010, the defender was again included in the application for the World Cup, but he spent all of his time on the bench, leaving for a few seconds in the group stage match against Nigeria. It was this match and was the last for an experienced football player - since then he was not called into the national team. If we talk about full-fledged matches, the last for him was a friendly match with the Belarusian team in May 2010 - it was one of the preparatory matches before the World Cup. It is also worth noting that Kim Dong Jin for a long time played for the youth team of South Korea in the age category to 23 years. He spent 39 matches there, noting six goals.

Personal life

As for the personal life of this football player, it is not very well known about her. Footballer is a believer and professes Christianity, refers to the Korean Protestant church. He lives in a family without a mother - with his father and older sister. In matters of love relations, Kim Dong Jin, whose private life is barely illuminated, is rather secretive - it is only known that he is still unmarried.

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