Sung Hyang-sim

Sung Hyang-sim
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-12-02) 2 December 1999 (age 24)
Place of birth Anju City, North Korea
Height 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Pyongyang City Sports Club
Number 2
International career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017– North Korea 24 (10)

Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl
승향심
Hancha
承香心[1]
Revised RomanizationSeung Hyangsim
McCune–ReischauerSŭng Hyangsim
IPA/sɯŋ hja̠ŋɕim/

Sung Hyang-sim (Korean: 승향심; born 2 December 1999) is a North Korean footballer from Anju City, South Pyongan Province. She plays for Pyongyang City Sports Club and the North Korea women's national football team as a forward.[2][3]

At the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship, Sung was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player and earned the Golden Ball for most goals scored. The same year, she was nominated for the Asian Player of the Year and Asian Young Footballer of the Year awards by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and won the latter. The previous year, she earned the Silver Ball at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

  1. ^ 友谊赛-承香心反越位破门 中国女足0–1朝鲜女足 [Friendly match: Sung Hyang-sim breaks offside trap, China women's football loses 0–1 to North Korean women's football]. Sina News (in Chinese). 8 June 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Korea DPR – Sung Hyang-Sim". Soccerway. 2 December 1999. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Start list: Korea DPR vs Papua New Guinea" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.

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