22.10.2007, 11:16
Yoon returns to South Korea

Kyung-Shin Yoon leaves Hamburg at the end of the season to return to his home country after 12 years in the Bundesliga.

Yoon returns to South Korea

After 12 years in the Bundesliga, the South Korean sportsman of the century will return to his home country: Kyung-Shin Yoon will leave his current club, HSV Hamburg, and go back to Korea at the end of the season.

The 34-year old world class backcourt player will play at home for another three years and he will also start studies of sports management there. Afterwards, he will take an important position in the handball federation of South Korea.

“He wanted to stay at our club, but the Korean offer was so good that he could not say no,” said HSV director, Peter Krebs. “But he wants to help us to another successful season.”

Yoon arrived in 1996 from South Korea to Germany and signed a contract with the former record champion, VfL Gummersbach. where he played until 2006 when he joined HSV.

In the last 12 years Yoon was seven times top scorer in the Bundesliga. Yoon is the best scorer ever in the German league with 2751 goals scored so far.

Yoon was also top scorer of the 2001 World Championship and World Player of the Year in 2001.He is a typical “shooter” who was celebrated in Hamburg especially for one goal: just 20 seconds before the final whistle of the return match of the Cup Winners’ Cup in Leon he scored the decisive goal. So it is “normal” that Yoon scored the first ever Champions League goal of the HSV in the first match against Viborg. So far he scored 16 goals in three matches.

TEXT: Björn Pazen