POHANG STEELERS

'Pohang Steelers' are a Korean football club. They were originally called ''POSCO'', after the Pohang Iron and Steel Company that owned it, the club was founded in 1973 and is one of Korean football's most successful sides.
The club professionalized for the 1984 season and changed its name to ''POSCO Dolphins'', but by the 1985 season they had changed yet again to ''POSCO Atoms''. 1986 saw them win their first Championship, and they enjoyed a great spell of domination in the league; between 1985 and 1998 they were continually in the top four of the League.
The club achieved a Korean football 'first' at the end 1990 with the opening of their purpose-built 20,000 seater ''Steelyard Stadium'', still the only football specific stadium constructed by a Korean football club.
1995 saw yet another name change, becoming ''Pohang Atoms'' to further strengthen local ties, and in 1997 adopted the name ''Pohang Steelers'' which they still use today. The side scaled Asian football heights, winning the Asian Champions Cup in 1997 and 1998 to establish themselves as one of Asia's top teams.
Unfortunately the club suffered something of a fall from grace in the 2000s struggling near the foot of the table, but bounced back to the forefront of Korean football by winning the first stage of the 2004 K-League championship.
The club qualified for the final Championship match of the 2004 season, but lost 4-3 on penalties to Suwon Samsung Bluewings.

Contents

Club honors

Domestic

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

International

Current squad

Club official

Famous players

See also

External links

Club honors

Domestic Professional ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Amateur ★ ★

International ★ ★ ★ ★

Current squad

''As of June 10, 2007''

Club official

'Senior club staff'

★ Manager : 'Sergio Ricardo De Pavia Farias'

★ Coach : 'Park Tae-Ha'

★ Physical Coach : 'Renato Vinhas Antunes'

★ Reserve Team Coach : 'Gong Mun-Bae'

★ Goalkeeper Coach : 'Kim Sung-Su'

★ Trainer : 'Kim Tae-Soo, Ahn Seung-Hoon'

★ Interpreter : 'Na Young-Jun'
'Junior club staff'

★ U-18 Manager : 'Kim Kyung-Ho'

★ U-18 Coach : 'Baek Ki-Tae'

★ U-15 Manager : 'Choi Moon-Sik'

★ U-15 Coach : 'Kim Jung-Chan'

★ U-12 Manager : 'Kim Dong-Young'

★ U-12 Coach : 'Kim Sung-Jin'

★ Goalkeeper Coach : 'Kim Il-Jin'

★ Youth Academy Head Coach : 'Lee Young-Hwan'

★ Youth Academy Coach : 'Kwon Ki-Duk'

Famous players

★ Choi Tae-Uk

★ Paulinho Criciúma

★ Ha Seok-Ju

★ Hong Myung-Bo

★ Hwang Sun-Hong

★ Jeon Kyung-Joon

★ Kim Byung-Ji

★ Lee Dong-Gook

★ Lee Min-Sung

★ Goran Petreski

★ Abbas Obeid Jassim

See also

★ List of football clubs in South Korea

★ List of Korea-related topics

External links

★ Football Club Pohang Steelers(FCPS)

★ Pohang steelers supporters Club "Marines"