Kim Yong-sik

Japanese and South Korean association football player (1910-1985)

Kim Yong-sik (1910–1985) was a Japanese footballer, association football referee and association football coach. He was born in Sinchon County on 25 July 1910. He died in Seoul on 8 March 1985, at the age of 75.

Kim competed in association football as a midfielder. The clubs and national sides on that record are Gyeongseong FC (1933–1937), Pyongyang FC (1940–1942), Gyeongseong FC (1946–1948), the Japan men's national football team (1936–1940), 3 appearances and the South Korea men's national football team (1945–1950), 3 appearances. He was attached to Korea University. He had begun working by 1927.

Kim appeared at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. He studied at Korea University.

The 1948 Summer Olympics were held in London, the United Kingdom.

Kim Yong-sik is covered in 53 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond Japan.

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