Ri Chol-myong

Ri Chol-myong
Personal information
Full name Ri Chol-myong[1]
Date of birth (1988-02-18) 18 February 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Pyongyang, North Korea
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Pyongyang City
Number 8
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006– Pyongyang City ? (?)
International career‡
2007–2016 Korea DPR 47 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of November 17, 2015
Ri Chol-myong
Chosŏn'gŭl
리철명
Revised RomanizationI Cheolmyeong
McCune–ReischauerRi Ch'ŏlmyŏng
In this Korean name, the family name is Ri.

Ri Chol-myong (Korean: 리철명, born 18 February 1988) is a North Korean international football player. He plays for Pyongyang City in the DPR Korea League.

He has played on 44 occasions for the North Korean national team, scoring a goal in the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup against Kyrgyzstan. He has been called up to their 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Ri Chol-myong was a part of the squad in the 2010 Asian Games. Korea DRR lost 8–9 in a penalty shoot-out in the hands of UAE in the quarter-finals. Korea DPR lost because of the penalty Ri missed.

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 19 February 2010 Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka  Kyrgyzstan 4-0 4–0 2010 AFC Challenge Cup
2 10 November 2010 Aden, Yemen  Yemen 1-1 Draw Friendly
3 24 December 2010 6th of October City, Egypt  Kuwait 1-2 1–2 Friendly
4 13 March 2012 Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Kathmandu, Nepal  India 4-0 4–0 2012 AFC Challenge Cup
5 13 November 2014 Taipei Municipal Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan  Hong Kong 1–0 2–1 2015 EAFF East Asian Cup

References

  1. ^ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 5 July 2007. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013.


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