World Cup One-Hit Wonders: Ahn, the Korean Killer of Italy

Until June 18, 2002, the most infamously known (North) Korean in Italy was football striker Pak Doo-Ik, whose goal at the 1966 World Cup in England propitiated the Azzurri’s shocking elimination. But during the 2002 World Cup, the Italian squad experienced an equally painful setback, this time at the hands of the Southern part of the peninsula.