Seoul - Korea Republic''s injured striker Park Chu-young will miss the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011, the Korean Football Association (KFA) announced. Park was injured while celebrating his injury-time winner for his French team Monaco against FC Sochaux on December 23. After Park scored the winner, his ecstatic teammates mobbed and dived on him in celebrating the goal, not knowing that he had injured himself. "Park Chu-yong will miss the Asian Cup because of a knee injury," the KFA said. Striker Park Chu-young''s pullout due to injury dents Korea Republic''s frontline striking capabilities in the Asian Cup. National coach Cho Kwang-rae has drafted in Hong Jung-ho as a replacement for Park, who is expected to be out for four weeks. Park has represented Korea Republic 48 times, scoring 15 goals. The Koreans now go into the tournament with a severe dearth of experience on the goal-scoring front. Incheon’s Yoo Byung-soo has only one appearance for the senior team while 19-year-old Ji Dong-won, of Chunnam Dragons, has played twice, both players having failed to score. The other striker, Kim Shin-wook, of Ulsan, has yet to play for the first team. Korea Republic are in Group ''C'' with Australia, India and Bahrain for the Asian Cup finals starting in Qatar January 7. (QNA)
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