Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8 pm on the 14th of next month… “Including Salahdo’s summoning list”
A country similar in style to Ghana was possible, but… Choose ‘performance’ rather than ‘quality of mock exam’
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hong-seok Ahn = In the English Premier League (EPL) ‘teaching top scorer’ Heung-min Son (Tottenham) and Mohammed Salah (Liverpool) will play a ‘return match’ in Korea.
The final opponent of Bentuho’s four consecutive matches in June was eventually decided to be Egypt.
The Korea Football Association announced on the 26th that the Korean national football team, led by coach Paulo Bento, will face the Egyptian national team at 8 pm on the 14th of next month.
The venue for the evaluation was confirmed as the Seoul World Cup Stadium.
With this, the big match against Brazil, which will be held on the 2nd of next month, will decorate the end of ‘Hot June’.
The best star of the Egyptian national team is ‘Pharaoh’ Salah, who has been reigning as the best goalkeeper in the EPL for many years.
Especially this season, after fierce competition for the top scorer on the EPL stage this season with Son Heung-min, they shared the title of joint top scorer with 23 goals in the season.
The Korea Football Association also said, “The Egyptian Football Association has already announced the list of players belonging to the overseas league to be convened during this match A, and Salah is also included,” he said.
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Egypt is ranked 32nd in the FIFA rankings, three places lower than Korea (29th).
The record between the two countries is good with 5 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses.
In the recent evaluation match held at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in 2005, Korea lost 0-1.
After Egypt, Bentuho’s schedule for four consecutive matches in June and the opponents were all decided.
Bentuho will face Brazil at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on June 2, Chile at the Daejeon World Cup Stadium on the 6th, and Paraguay at the Suwon World Cup Stadium on the 10th.
The last match will be played against Egypt on the 14th.
The Football Association had originally planned to play the match against Argentina on the 14th, but it was canceled due to circumstances on the Argentine side.
Since then, they have been busily looking for new opponents, and in the end they succeeded in creating a matchup that would attract a lot of fans’ attention.
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However, it is unreasonable to evaluate it as the ‘best choice’ given the nature of the four consecutive matches, which is a ‘mock test’ for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
After the Argentina match was canceled, the Football Association first looked for an opponent to prepare for the 2022 Qatar World Cup group stage match against Ghana.
We narrowed the scope to countries that succeeded in advancing to the World Cup finals as their soccer style was similar to Ghana, which puts physical and resilience at the forefront.
Cameroon and Senegal, who reached the finals, play West African football similar to that of Ghana, and have an empty schedule on June 14, were the teams that fit the conditions the Football Association had in mind.
If the Football Association showed the will, an evaluation match with one of the two teams was possible.
However, the Football Association did not make it to the World Cup finals in the end, and Ghana and the soccer style turned to Egypt, which was significantly different.
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As Son Heung-min and Salah’s competition for the top scorer drew a lot of public attention, it seems that they decided to focus on the ‘performance’ rather than improving the ‘quality of the mock test’.
The Football Association has suffered a major blow to ticket sales revenue for the past two years due to restrictions on spectators due to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).
At first glance, it seems reasonable to choose a box office card that can fill the Seoul World Cup Stadium.
However, this evaluation game, which is played with only five months left to the World Cup, is also a valuable opportunity to improve the national team’s power.
In the process of determining the opponent for the final evaluation match, it is regrettable that the Football Association communicated properly with coach Bento, who had to prepare for a tough match ahead of the Qatar World Cup.
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