19 Facts About Yoo Sang-chul

Yoo Sang-chul was a South Korean football player and manager.

Yoo Sang-chul was selected as a midfielder of the 2002 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team and K League 30th Anniversary Best XI.

In 1994, Yoo Sang-chul joined a K League club Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i, and was selected as a defender of the K League Best XI right after his first season.

Yoo Sang-chul was offered a trial from Barcelona after the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Yoo Sang-chul briefly joined Kashiwa Reysol in 2001, where he played 33 games and scored 14 goals.

Yoo Sang-chul was one of only two players in K League history to have been included in all three outfield positions of the Best XI.

Yoo Sang-chul scored two goals for South Korea in FIFA World Cup, one in 1998 against Belgium, and another in 2002 against Poland.

Yoo Sang-chul played a key part of the South Korea national team when they reached the semi-finals in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and was named to the World Cup all-star team.

Yoo Sang-chul was part of the South Korea under-23 team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, who finished second in Group A, making it through to the next round, before being defeated by Paraguay, the eventual silver medalists.

Yoo Sang-chul was one of South Korea's most versatile players in the 1990s and 2000s.

Yoo Sang-chul was originally a defensive player, who could perform roles of stopper and right back with excellent physical strength, but he had the ability to spark attacks with his incisive distribution after getting great positioning and wide vision in his experiences.

Yoo Sang-chul's versatility allowed him to shine in almost any area of the field from defence to attack, and his presence allowed coach Guus Hiddink to alter tactics easily during World Cup matches.

Yoo Sang-chul began managing in 2009 as a high school football manager, at Chuncheon Machinery Technical High School.

In January 2014, Yoo Sang-chul became the manager of the Ulsan University football team, the affiliate university team of the Ulsan Hyundai football club where he had spent his entire K-League career.

Yoo Sang-chul remained with Ulsan University until December 2017, when he was appointed manager of the Jeonnam Dragons.

On May 14,2019, Yoo Sang-chul was appointed manager of Incheon United.

In June 2020, when Incheon United had another managerial vacancy, Yoo Sang-chul approached the team and asked to be appointed the manager again, but he was turned down on account of his poor health.

On 21 November 2019, Yoo Sang-chul announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which caused him to be hospitalised.

Yoo Sang-chul died on 7 June 2021 in Seoul at the age of 49.