Park Chan-yong

Park Chan-yong is the sort of footballer I quietly root for. Born in 1996 and playing for the storied Pohang Steelers, he came up the unglamorous way, through a vocational high school and Daegu University rather than an early academy spotlight. The K League is a brutally competitive environment, and simply surviving at a club with Pohang's pedigree earns my respect. I have always been drawn to dependable, structure-first players who hold a team together rather than the flashy scorers who grab headlines. Park reads to me as exactly that kind of grafter, and I find that quietly admirable.

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Name (English)

Park Chan-yong

Name (Japanese)

朴璨鎔

Reading

ぱく・ちゃにょん

Born

January 27, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

South Korea

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

High school

Daedong Taxation High School

University

Daegu University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chanyongpaku/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Chan-yong%20(footballer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%B4%E7%92%A8%E9%8E%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24087830

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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