# Kim Kyong-il

> A North Korean footballer whose name appears in the records of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa — the tournament where his national team arrived with just one player from a European club, making them an outlier in a competition newly defined by continental reach.

*North Korean footballer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/kim-kyong-il

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Football / Soccer Player ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857))
- **Category:** Footballers
- **Born:** 1988-12-11
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Kim Kyong-il was part of North Korea's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held from 11 June to 11 July in South Africa. The tournament required each nation to submit a preliminary list of 30 players by 11 May, then trim to a final roster by 1 June. His team stood alone: North Korea was the only squad with just a single player from a European club, Hong Yong-jo, in a World Cup where every participating nation for the first time had at least one Europe-based name. The contrast was stark — Nigeria fielded no domestic players, England fielded none from abroad — but North Korea's near-total isolation from the European game marked them as the tournament's geographic extreme.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 51.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 17.6 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 19.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 93.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 45.0 / 100

## Topics
#Footballers, #Football / Soccer Player, #Soccer, #21st Century

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554061)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Kim%20Kyong-il)
- [کیم کیونق ایل](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D9%82_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84)
- [Kim Kjong-il](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kjong-il)
- [Kim Kyong-il (Fußballspieler)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il_(Fu%C3%9Fballspieler))
- [Kim Kyong-il (footballer, born 1988)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il_(footballer%2C_born_1988))
- [Kim Kyong-il](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [کیم کیونگ ایل](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84)
- [Kim Kyong-il](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [Kim Gjongil](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Gjongil)
- [Kim Kyong-il](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [金京一](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E4%BA%AC%E4%B8%80)
- [김경일 (1988년)](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EA%B2%BD%EC%9D%BC_(1988%EB%85%84))
- [क्योंग-इल किम](https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97-%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE)
- [Kim Kyong-il](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [Kim Kyong-il](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [Kim Kyong-il](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [Ким Кён Иль](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D1%91%D0%BD_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C)
- [Kim Kyong-il](https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-il)
- [Кім Кьонг Іл](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%86%D0%BB)
- [金京一](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E4%BA%AC%E4%B8%80)
- [كم كيونغ إل](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%A5%D9%84)
- [كم كيونج ال](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%84)

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