Ki Sung-yueng

Ki Sung-yueng () is a Korean national soccer player, and Premier League player.

Early life
His soccer career cannot be explained without his father. His father was always with Ki. He said he found Ki's talent in elementary school and wanted to continue soccer career. Therefore, his father started to train Ki and he can now use both feet. His father also wanted to develop more to study about soccer. Therefore, Ki moved to Australia at twelve years old to study English and started to playing soccer. Because of this experience in Australia, he could speak in English fluently and it is easy to communicate with other soccer players.

Club career

He joined Premier League club Swansea City A.F.C in August 2012. In terms of attacking, he appeared 29 matches, shots 27 times but no goals. However, he succeeded in assisting 2 times and 17 times crosses. Among 29 matches which he played, Swansea City A.F.C won 7 games, drew 12 games and lost 10 games. In 13-14 season, he was loaned to Sunderland A.F.C and he did pretty well in Sunderland A.F.C. He appeared 27 games among 38 games and he got scored 3 times among 30 shots and succeeded in one assists and 21 crosses.  He did well in 29 games he played but the results of games were not good. Just 6 wins and 6 draw matches and 15 times lost among 29 matches.

 South Korea National Team career 
Ki also did well in Korean National Team. He joined Korean National football Team from 2007. Also, he joined 2012 London Olympics, and he and his teammates did well so they finally got bronze medal in Olympics and got benefit from Korean Government to pass military service.

Career statistics
Club

+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competitionClubSeasonLeagueNational cupLeague cupContinentalTotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsFC Seoul2006K League000000—002007K League1603060—2502008K League2141060—2842009K League273104181405Total6475016181939Celtic2009–10Scottish Premier League1000000001002010–11Scottish Premier League2634130203542011–12Scottish Premier League306203071427Total6696160918711Swansea City2012–13Premier League2902070—3802013–14Premier League10000020302014–15Premier League3380010—3482015–16Premier League2820020—3022016–17Premier League2301010—2502017–18Premier League2526010—322Total13912901202016212Sunderland (loan)2013–14Premier League2731061—344Newcastle United2018–19Premier League1800010—1902019–20Premier League301000—40Total210101000230Mallorca2019–20La Liga1000——10FC Seoul2020K League 15000—00502021K League 135300——3532022K League 135041——3912023K League 135200——352Total11054100001146Career total4283626241219251442

International
+Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsSouth Korea200862200911220101302011141201250201360201411020151432016912017812018120201910Career total11010

Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ki goal.
+ List of international goals scored by Ki Sung-yuengNo.DateVenueCapsOpponentScoreResultCompetition 1  10 September 2008  Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai, China 2    1–1  1–1  2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 2  11 October 2008  Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea 3    1–0  3–0  Friendly 3  6 June 2009  Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 11    2–0  2–0  2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 4  14 October 2009  Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea 16    1–0  2–0  Friendly 5  25 January 2011  Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha, Qatar 35    1–0  2–2   2011 AFC Asian Cup 6  13 October 2015  Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea 78    2–0  3–0  Friendly 7  17 November 2015  New Laos National Stadium, Vientiane, Laos 80    1–0  5–0  2018 FIFA World Cup qualification 8  2–0 9  6 October 2016  Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea 87    1–0  3–2  2018 FIFA World Cup qualification 10  13 June 2017 Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar 93    1–2  2–3  2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours
Celtic
Scottish Premier League: 2011–12
Scottish Cup: 2010–11
Scottish League Cup runner-up: 2011–12

Swansea City
Football League Cup: 2012–13

Sunderland
Football League Cup runner-up: 2013–14

FC Seoul
Korean FA Cup runner-up: 2022

South Korea U20
AFC Youth Championship third place: 2006

South Korea U23
Summer Olympics bronze medal: 2012

South Korea
AFC Asian Cup runner-up: 2015

Individual
K League 1 Best XI: 2008, 2009
K League Players' Player of the Year: 2009
AFC Youth Player of the Year: 2009
Scottish Premier League Young Player of the Month: October 2010
Korean FA Player of the Year: 2011, 2012, 2016
Korean FA Fans' Player of the Year: 2011, 2012
AFC Asian Cup Team of the Tournament: 2015
Swansea City Player of the Season: 2014–15
K League Player of the Month: March 2021

References

Category:1989 births
Category:Living people
Category:South Korean footballers
Category:Association football midfielders
Category:Premier League players
Category:Newcastle United F.C. players
Category:Sunderland A.F.C. players
Category:Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic bronze medalists
Category:Olympic medalists in football
Category:South Korea at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Category:South Korea at the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Category:South Korea at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Category:2010 FIFA World Cup players
Category:2014 FIFA World Cup players
Category:2018 FIFA World Cup players
Category:2019 AFC Asian Cup players