Lee Woon-jae

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Lee Woon-jae
Lee Woon-Jae.jpg
Lee with Suwon Samsung Bluewings in 2009
Personal information
Full name Lee Woon-jae
Date of birth (1973-04-26) 26 April 1973 (age 48)
Place of birth Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1986–1988 Cheongju Daeseong Middle School
1989–1991 Cheongju Commercial High School
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1995 Kyung Hee University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2010 Suwon Samsung Bluewings 267 (0)
2000–2001 → Sangmu FC (draft)
2011–2012 Jeonnam Dragons 63 (0)
Total 330 (0)
National team
1994–1996 South Korea U23 16[α] (0)
2002 South Korea U23 (WC) 9 (0)
1993 South Korea B
1994–2010 South Korea 133 (0)
Honours
Representing  South Korea
Men's football
Summer Universiade
Silver medal – second place 1993 Buffalo Team[1]
AFC Asian Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Lebanon Team
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Indonesia/Malaysia
/Thailand/Vietnam		 Team
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Busan Team
EAFF Championship
Gold medal – first place 2003 Japan Team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Japan Team
East Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 1993 Shanghai Team[2]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
Lee Woon-jae
Hangul
이운재
Hanja
李雲在
Revised RomanizationI Un-jae
McCune–ReischauerI Unjae
In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.

Lee Woon-jae (Korean: 이운재; born 26 April 1973) is a South Korean former football goalkeeper. He was part of South Korea's 1994, 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup campaigns. He was the only Asian player nominated for the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper of the 21st Century (2001–2011).[3]

International career[]

Lee was a part of the South Korea squad for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He was substituted into the game against Germany for the starting goalkeeper Choi In-young and did not concede a goal during 45 minutes. After the 1994 World Cup, he suffered from tuberculosis and hepatitis which made the crisis to finish his playing career. Happily, he recovered his health and came back to the national team since 1998.[4]

Lee was selected for Guus Hiddink's squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup as the first-choice goalkeeper after the rivalry against Kim Byung-ji. He appeared all of seven matches until the third place play-off, and kept three clean sheets against Poland, Portugal and Spain in the tournament. He made the history of South Korean football in the quarter-finals against Spain. After the match was ended without a goal until extra time, Lee blocked Spain's fourth shot taken by Joaquín in the penalty shoot-out. South Korea defeated Spain 5–3 on penalties, becoming the first-ever Asian team to advance to the semi-finals in the World Cup.[5][6] South Korea finished fourth place in the tournament.

Lee captained South Korea at the 2007 AFC Asian Cup in place of injured Kim Nam-il. He kept clean sheets in all games of the knockout tournament, and saved a total of three penalties in shoot-outs. (two against Iran and one against Japan) He was selected as the goalkeeper of the All-Star XI. However, he was suspended from the national team for a year, because he sneaked out from his hotel room and went on a drinking binge in an Indonesian bar along with South Korean teammates Kim Sang-sik, Woo Sung-yong and Lee Dong-gook before the match against Bahrain.

Lee is one of two players (the other being Rigobert Song of Cameroon) to be selected for both 1994 and 2010 FIFA World Cup. He is one of seven players from Asia to play in four different World Cups. He played his last game for the national team in a friendly against Nigeria on 11 August 2010 in a 2–1 victory, subsequently retiring from international football.

Style of play[]

Nicknamed the "Spider Hand" in South Korea,[7] Lee is regarded as one of the greatest South Korean goalkeepers of all time. He didn't have height and rapid pace, but showed great judgment and the harmonies with defenders.[7] He was also noted for his predictive ability and this made him strong on the penalty shoot-out. In shoot-outs of the K League, he won 92% of matches (11 out of 12) and saved 45% of shots.[8] (26 out of 58)

Career statistics[]

Club[]

Source:[9]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 1996 K League 12 0 ?[a] ? 1 0 — — 13 0
1997 K League 7 0 ?[a] ? 10 0 — — 17 0
1998 K League 18 0 ?[a] ? 16 0 — — 34 0
1999 K League 27 0 0 0 12 0 — ?[b] 0 39 0
2002 K League 19 0 4 0 0 0 ?[c] ? — 23 0
2003 K League 41 0 1 0 — — — 42 0
2004 K League 23 0 0 0 3 0 — — 26 0
2005 K League 17 0 3 0 9 0 6 0 1[d] 0 36 0
2006 K League 13 0 1 0 1 0 — — 15 0
2007 K League 25 0 1 0 10 0 — — 36 0
2008 K League 28 0 0 0 11 0 — — 39 0
2009 K League 25 0 5 0 1 0 5 0 — 36 0
2010 K League 12 0 2 0 2 0 7 0 — 23 0
Total 267 0 17 0 76 0 18 0 1 0 379 0
Sangmu FC (draft) 2000 Semipro League ? ? ?[e] ? — — ?[f] ? ? ?
2001 Semipro League ? ? ?[e] ? — — ?[f] ? ? ?
Total ? ? ? ? — — ? ? ? ?
Jeonnam Dragons 2011 K League 30 0 2 0 4 0 — — 36 0
2012 K League 33 0 ?[a] ? — — — 33 0
Total 63 0 2 0 4 0 — — 69 0
Career total 330 0 19 0 80 0 18 0 1 0 448 0
  1. ^ a b c d Appearance(s) in Korean FA Cup
  2. ^ Could appear in Korean Super Cup
  3. ^ Appearance(s) in Asian Club Championship
  4. ^ Appearance in Korean Super Cup
  5. ^ a b Appearance(s) in Korean National Championship
  6. ^ a b Appearance(s) in Korean President's Cup

International[]

Source:[10]

  • Appearances and goals by national team and year
    National team Year Apps Goals
    South Korea 1994 3 0
    1995 1 0
    1999 2 0
    2000 8 0
    2001 12 0
    2002 15 0
    2003 14 0
    2004 15 0
    2005 15 0
    2006 16 0
    2007 8 0
    2008 2 0
    2009 13 0
    2010 9 0
    Career total 133 0
  • Appearances and goals by competition
    Competition Apps Goals
    Friendlies 55 0
    Minor competitions 12 0
    EAFF Championship 9 0
    CONCACAF Gold Cup 3 0
    AFC Asian Cup qualification 7 0
    AFC Asian Cup 15 0
    FIFA Confederations Cup 3 0
    FIFA World Cup qualification 18 0
    FIFA World Cup 11 0
    Total 133 0

    • Honours[]

    Suwon Samsung Bluewings

    Sangmu FC

    South Korea U23

    South Korea B

    South Korea

    Individual

    See also[]

    Notes[]

    1. ^ Does not include seven appearances against clubs.

    References[]

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    2. ^ 동아시아축구 대표 확정. Naver.com (in Korean). The Hankyoreh. 30 March 1993. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
    3. ^ "The World's best Goalkeeper of the 21st Century". IFFHS.de. IFFHS. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
    4. ^ 가난과 폐결핵·간염 극복…그는 불굴의 거미손이었다 (in Korean). Ilyoseoul. 27 June 2006.
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    10. ^ "Lee Woon-jae at Korea Football Association" (in Korean). KFA. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
    11. ^ Lee, Seung-soo; Schöggl, Hans; Trevena, Mark (13 May 2020). "South Korea – List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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    24. ^ 2002년 K-리그 시상식 21일 개최 (in Korean). Yonhap. 20 December 2002.
    25. ^ 나드손, 외국인 첫 MVP! (in Korean). YTN. 16 December 2004.
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    27. ^ 동아시아컵축구 이운재 최우수 골키퍼상 (in Korean). Yonhap. 7 August 2005.
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      "Official All-Star XI". BigSoccer. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
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    30. ^ "The best Asian team at the FIFA World Cup announced!". Asian Football Confederation. 7 July 2020. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

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    Hong Myung-bo
    		 South Korea captain
    2002–2008     		Succeeded by
    Park Ji-sung
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