# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-kyong-il
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:50:40.178Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-kyong-il"
name: "Kim Kyong-il"
slug: "kim-kyong-il"
description: "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."
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1988-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.