Lee Jang-soo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lee Jang-soo

South Korean footballer

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1956

Place of Birth: Haman County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Lee Jang-soo (Korean: ???; born October 15, 1956) is a South Korean association football manager and a former player.
As a player, he had the distinction of being one of the first fully professional footballers to play in the newly formed Korean Super League in the inaugural 1983 league season, however it has been as a manager where he has distinguished himself particularly within China where he has gone on to twice win the Chinese FA Cup with Chongqing Lifan and Qingdao Beilaite.
He has also achieved a successful spell back home within South Korea with FC Seoul when he won the K-League Cup, however he has continued to return to China where he was the manager of Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande whose appointment also makes him the longest serving foreign coach within China.