Moon Soon-ho
 Moon Soon-Ho in action for Woodlands Wellington in a S.League during the 2012 season. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 March 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Seongnam, South Korea | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Woodlands Wellington FC | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2007 | Incheon Korail | 28 | (8) |
| 2008 | Super Reds | 9 | (6) |
| 2009–2010 | Cheonan City | 16 | (5) |
| 2011–2014 | Woodlands Wellington | 95 | (42) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2020 | |||
| Moon Soon-ho | |
| Hangul | 문순호 |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Mun Sunho |
| McCune–Reischauer | Mun Sunho |
Moon Soon-Ho (born 15 March 1981) is a South Korean former football player who last plays for Woodlands Wellington in the S-League.
Club career
[edit]Super Reds
[edit]Having finished last in the 2007 S-League season, Super Reds made several changes to their squad and Moon, along with his Incheon Korail team-mate Choi Young-Min, were signed up from the Korea National League side for the 2008 S-League season.
Moon scored a total of seven goals during that season, netting crucial match winning goals against Gombak United[1] and Courts Young Lions.[2]
In 2009, Moon decided to move back to his native South Korea to join Korea National League side Cheonan City.
Cheonan City
[edit]With a knee injury hampering him during his time back in the Korea National League, Moon had little playing time at Cheonan. However, he managed to score 2 goals during his maiden season in 2009 despite spending most of his time on the sidelines. He was deployed mostly as a substitute. He finish his season with 2 goals in 6 appearances for the club. In his second season with Cheonan, Moon did make an impact by coming off the bench to score a stunner for Cheonan against Yongin City on 30 April 2010. His knack for scoring goals when coming on as a substitute earned him the title "super-sub".[3]
At the end of the 2010 Korea National League season, despite scoring 3 goals in 10 appearances, Moon was released by the club as he struggled to recover from his injury.
Woodlands Wellington
[edit]Moon would soon return to the S.League when he was snapped up by Woodlands Wellington during the 2011 mid-season transfer window as a free agent. Joining him at the club was fellow Korean Hyun Jong-Woon, whom switched to the Rams from Tanjong Pagar United.
Moon proved to be a shrewd signing for Woodlands, as he scored 8 goals in the latter half of the season and finished the 2011 season as Woodlands' top scorer.
Moon kick-started the 2012 S-League season in great fashion, earning a penalty against the favoured Courts Young Lions and calmly slotting it home in the 48th minute, putting the Rams into the lead and ultimately winning the game for them.[4]
Moon's telepathic understanding with Lebanese Australian attacking midfielder Hussein Akil has also been praised by football pundits, despite the pair only playing together at the start of the 2012 season.[5]
Moon finished as Woodlands Wellington's top scorer for the Rams' 2012 S.League season with 9 goals in the S-League and 1 goal in the Singapore Cup, which he scored against Kanbawza FC.
In the 2013 S.League season, Moon finished as joint-top scorer in the S.League with 15 league goals and built up a telepathic relationship with fellow Korean striker Jang Jo-Yoon as the Rams stormed to a top-six finish. Moon's fantastic performances also earned him a spot in the inaugural Goal.com Singapore Football Awards' Team of the Year.[6]
Club career statistics
[edit]- As of 30 October 2014
| Club Performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | S.League | Singapore Cup | League Cup | |||||||||
| Club | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | 
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Apps | Goals |
| Woodlands Wellington | 2011 | 15 (3) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 (3) | 8 |
| 2012 | 23 (1) | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 (0) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 (1) | 10 | |
| 2013 | 25 (1) | 15 | 1 | 0 | 4 (1) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 30 (2) | 16 | |
| 2014 | 24 (3) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27 (3) | 4 | |
- All numbers encased in brackets signify substitute appearances.
References
[edit]- ^ "Gombak United vs Super Reds".
- ^ "Young Lions vs Super Reds".
- ^ "Cheonan City's super sub, Moon Soon Ho". 3 May 2010.
- ^ "Rams shock Young Lions". Archived from the original on 5 March 2012.
- ^ "Woodlands kick off their season with morale boosting win". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013.
- ^ "Goal Singapore Football Awards: Team of the Year".
- 1981 births
- Living people
- South Korean men's footballers
- South Korean expatriate men's footballers
- South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Singapore
- Expatriate men's footballers in Singapore
- Daejeon Korail FC players
- Woodlands Wellington FC players
- Korea National League players
- Singapore Premier League players
- Men's association football forwards
- Sportspeople from Seongnam
- Footballers from Gyeonggi Province
- 21st-century South Korean sportsmen