Korea has no strong candidate to win the title. The semifinal match of the 2024 Asian Cup in Qatar, which is also underway to serve as the final qualifying match for the Asian region for the 2024 Paris Olympics, has been decided. Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Japan and Iraq will have a showdown. Korea was not included in the semifinal match. Indonesia and Uzbekistan will play in the semifinal match on Wednesday (Korean time). Indonesia advanced to the semifinal with the most powerful performance. It beat Australia, the favorite team, to rank second in Group A. In the quarterfinal match, it beat Korea ..read more

There has been a tragedy of Korean soccer that will go down in history. This is because Korea’s Olympic soccer team, led by Hwang Sun-hong, failed to advance to the finals of the Paris Summer Olympics in July after losing in a penalty shootout after drawing 2-2 against Indonesia led by Shin Tae-yong in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup. The third place in this competition has to go straight to the Paris Olympics and the fourth place has to go through the playoffs with Guinea in Africa, but everything fell in vain in the decisive quarter-final. It i ..read more

Myung Jae-yong, the senior coach of the South Korean U-23 national soccer team, who attended the press conference instead of Hwang Sun-hong, who was sent off, cited the failure to recruit players from Europe as the reason for the failure to advance to the Olympic finals. Coach Myung said he did not have luck with South Korea in the penalty shootout, but he wanted to make it significant that the players tied the game and dragged the game to the penalty shootout even when the game was played with 10 players. In the meantime, he admitted that the failure to call up players playing in Europe ahead ..read more

It’s a cheeky fate. Coach Shin Tae-yong blocked Korea from advancing to the 10th consecutive Olympics. Indonesia, which played in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Asian Cup at Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on the 26th (Korea time), failed to compete with South Korea until extra time, winning 11-10 after a penalty shootout to advance to the semifinals. On the day, Indonesia overwhelmed Korea tactically. Trapped in a simple three-back strategy, Korea mainly played long-pass soccer with low probability of success due to wide gap between offense a ..read more

American League MVP-turned slugger Jose Abreu (37) of the Houston Astros has been struggling from a severe slump this season. As he failed to overcome his shocking batting average below 100%, he has been excluded from the starting lineup. At an away game against the Chicago Cubs on Saturday, Abreu played in the bottom of the eighth inning when his team was losing 2-4. He couldn’t even stand at bat, and had to watch his team lose 3-4. Abreu had just four hits in 68 at-bats (62 times at bat) in 20 games in the league this season. He has a batting average of 65 percent, an RBI without a home run ..read more

Has his credibility dropped? San Francisco Giants’ Lee Jung-hoo has been excluded from the starting lineup again. In the final three consecutive home games against the New York Mets held at Oracle Park on Saturday, Lee replaced center fielder in the sixth inning when he was defending, and took the batter’s box twice with a fly ball and a walk. After playing a poor game at pitching and hitting, San Francisco fell to its knees 2-8. Lee Jung-hoo replaced center fielder No. 7 when he was defending in the top of the sixth inning when his team was losing 0-6. It was right after Mets left-hander Sean ..read more

Pohang Steelers winger Jung Jae-hee (30) has made a splendid comeback in the 2024 season after recovering from his chronic hamstring injury. Since the opening of the “Hana Bank K League 1 2024,” he played in six matches, scoring the most goals in his team. Equipped with the league’s fastest speed, Jung mainly played as a joker in the second half, and scored all four goals in the extra time of the second half. His concentration is remarkable, with an average of one goal scored every 36.8 minutes. One of the secrets to Jung’s great rebound is “flour-free.” “I had a hard time watching the Pohang ..read more

Jurgen Klinsmann’s behavior is also unusual for the Japanese media. Japanese media “Sacker Digest” noted that director Jürgen Klinsmann appeared on the Austrian broadcast and brought up the story of Korea. Soccer Digest said, “Coach Jurgen Klinsmann started the Austrian program. Revealing that his dismissal was unfair, he recalled the ‘table tennis incident’ that occurred during the 2023 Asian Cup in Qatar, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).” “It would have been better if I had been quiet, but once again, I burst into a comment that provoked Korea. I caused a stir with my rash remarks,” h ..read more

Coach Xavi Hernandez, a former “World Class” midfielder, is connected to the South Korean national team. One year under Jurgen Klinsmann was literally a “failure.” He has been under intense criticism from soccer fans for causing controversies such as “tactics,” “working from home” and “losing one’s home league,” which had been feared even before he took office. Klinsman’s team, which lacked substance, completely collapsed on the Asian Cup stage. The team was fully prepared by including “captain” Son Heung-min, Kim Min-jae, Lee Kang-in, and Hwang Hee-chan, who are playing at the center of Europ ..read more

Jurgen Klinsmann touched the wounds of Korean football again, which was hard sealed. Klinsmann appeared with Andreas Herzog (former head coach) on the Austrian Serbus TV sports talk show on the 22nd (local time) and mentioned once again the fight between Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur) and Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain) during the Asian Cup. Klinsmann said, “A young player (Lee Kang-in) who plays in Paris said rude things to the old player (Son Heung-min), the captain of Tottenham. The two got into a physical fight, and due to Lee Kang-in, Son’s fingers were dislocated. It ended with a fe ..read more