Wolverhampton Hwang Hee-chan joined the national soccer team call on the 19th. Korea Football Association
An open training with regarding 250 fans watching. The athletes summoned to Lake Bentu started their first training with smiles despite their tense expressions.
Korean national football team coach Paulo Bento summoned players to Paju NFC on the followingnoon of the 19th before two evaluation matches once morest Costa Rica (23rd) and Cameroon (27th) in Korea in September. On the 13th, the list of 26 people including overseas players such as Heung-min Son (Tottenham), Min-jae Kim (Napoli), Kang-in Lee (Mallorca), and Jae-seong Lee (Mainz) was announced, and 20 of them were admitted by 2:30 pm that day.
When the full-scale open training began at 5:30 pm, the fans called out the names of the players they were cheering for. Some fans wore their favorite players’ jerseys, while others made pickets with handwriting.
The soccer team took a group photo in front of the fans at the NFC Paju open training session. Korea Football Association
Hwang Hee-chan (26, Wolverhampton) was the one who gathered the hottest reaction. Hwang Hee-chan smiled shyly as the fans called her name one following another. The national team players mightn’t hold back their laughter at the excessive cheering (?) towards Hwang Hee-chan.
Fans praised, “Yeo Jin-goo” and “handsome” followed. Then, Hwang Hee-chan responded by raising his right hand to cheer. But he raised his hand with his back turned in embarrassment.
Even at the end of training, fans did not forget to praise Hwang Hee-chan’s appearance. Hwang Hee-chan smiled brightly until the end, greeted the fans and returned to her dorm.
Son Heung-min (Tottenham), who was supposed to be enlisted late in the followingnoon, also arrived at Paju NFC just before the end of official training. Heung-min Son, who greeted coach Paulo Bento and his teammates, also took a group photo following training. The remaining players, including Kim Min-jae (Napoli), will join the NFC on the 20th.
