 Kim in 1972 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Kim Sung-gan | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1912-11-17)17 November 1912 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pyongyang,Heian'nan-dō,Korea, Empire of Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 29 May 1984(1984-05-29) (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Springfield, Illinois,United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| [1] | Kwangsung Middle School | ||||||||||||||||
| 1928–1930[2][3] | Soongsil Middle School | ||||||||||||||||
| College career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1932[4] | Soongsil College | ||||||||||||||||
| 1934–1940[5][6] | Yonhi College | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1933[7] | Pyongyang FC | ||||||||||||||||
| 1933[8] | Korean Students in Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| 1934[9] | Joseon FC | ||||||||||||||||
| 1934–1939[10][11] | Kyungsung FC | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1940 | Japan | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1956 | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Kim Sung-gan (Korean:김성간, 17 November 1912 – 19 May 1984) was a South Koreanfootball player and manager. He played forJapan national team whenKorea was ruled by Japan.
Born inPyongyang (known at the time as "Heijō"), Kim started playing football when he was in elementary school.[1] He played mostly forYonhi College andKyungsung FC after graduating from middle school. He won the1935 Emperor's Cup, while playing for Kyungsung FC.[12] He also played forJapan national team in five matches from 1939 to 1940 including one official match.[13]
Kim became a coach and an executive of the Korean FA after retiring as a player,[14][15] and led South Korea to become inaugural champions at theAFC Asian Cup when being appointed manager.
Kim playedsoft tennis andbasketball for a short while in early life. He participated in the All Joseon Soft Tennis Tournament in 1927, while playing soft tennis at Suncheon Shinsung Middle School.[16] He played for basketball team "Nongwoo" (which meant "Basketball Friends") in the Pyongyang Basketball League in 1933 before transferring to Yonhi College.[17]
Kim's sonKim Yeong-il was a Korean national basketball player, who participated in two Summer Olympics and won two major Asian titles (1969 ABC Championship and1970 Asian Games). Yeong-il was found dead with his blood and head wounds near a railway on 23 May 1976.[18]
Kim died on 29 May 1984, in a traffic collision in theUnited States.[19]
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| Japan | 1940 | 1 | 0 |
Kyungsung FC
South Korea
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