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My Take
Choi Jin-cheul appeals to the part of me that values defenders over flashy attackers. At 187 cm, coming off the island of Jindo in South Jeolla, he built a career on the unglamorous work of stopping goals rather than scoring them, and that kind of steadiness rarely gets the headlines it deserves. What I respect most is the pivot into coaching. Players who become managers are passing on a philosophy forged through their own bodies, and a defender's discipline is exactly the sort of hard-won wisdom worth handing down. There is something deeply grounded about a man who spent his life holding the back line.
Overview
Choi Jin-cheul (born 26 March 1971) is a South Korean football manager and former player.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Choi Jin-cheul
- Name (Japanese)
- 崔眞喆
- Reading
- ちぇ・じんちょる
- Born
- March 26, 1971 (age 55)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Boar
- Origin
- Jindo, South Jeolla, South Korea
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 187 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Ohyun High School
- University
- Soongsil University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E7%9C%9E%E5%96%86
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.