Costa Rica vs Cameroon… Hat-trick Son Heung-min, ‘return’ Lee Kang-in, etc.
(Paju = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = The national soccer team gathered for the final test stage two months before the start of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
The national soccer team, led by coach Paulo Bento, convened on the followingnoon of the 19th at the Paju National Team Training Center (NFC).
Twenty of the 26 people included in this call list arrived at the scheduled entry time (2:30 pm), and captain Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur), who was on his way home following finishing the team’s match schedule, moved directly to NFC from Incheon International Airport. joined
Kang-in Lee (Mallorca) is also scheduled to arrive late this followingnoon, and Min-jae Kim (Naples), Ui-jo Hwang, In-beom Hwang (above Olympiacos) and Woo-young Jung (Freiburg) will join on the 20th.
Striker Na Sang-ho (Seoul) injured his ankle during the K League 1 match once morest Daegu FC the day before, raising concerns, but no major abnormalities were found in subsequent examinations, so he enlisted without any problems.
The national team gathered on this day will face Costa Rica at the Goyang Sports Complex at 8 pm on the 23rd, and then prepare for a match once morest Cameroon at the Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8 pm on the 27th.
These two matches are meaningful as the last test stage to be played by mobilizing all overseas players before finalizing the 26 players in the World Cup finals.
The national team is scheduled to leave for Qatar, the host city of the World Cup, following an evaluation match that will also be held in November.
Accordingly, for Bento, this two-game match is the final opportunity to virtually complete the final entry with the most elite members and to devise the optimal combination and tactics for the World Cup group H competition with Uruguay, Ghana and Portugal.
“I’m trying to play in a slightly different way in these two games,” Bento said.
The most eye-catching players in this call are ‘Captain’ Heung-Min Son and Kang-In Lee, who returned to the A team following a year and six months.
Son Heung-min, the top scorer in the English Premier League (EPL) last season and the core of the Bentuho attack, exploded a hat-trick in the 8th round of the EPL once morest Leicester City on the 18th (Korean time) following not seeing a goal in eight official matches since the start of this season. He happily joined the team.
Kang-in Lee, who plays in the Spanish La Liga (La Liga), was chosen by coach Bento following the evaluation match (0-3 loss) once morest Japan in March last year.
While playing in the big European leagues, as his shortcomings such as speed, defense, and physical strength were highlighted, he moved away from Bento’s idea, but this season he showed improved skills and seized the opportunity in the last evaluation match before the World Cup.
Most of the players, including them, have been selected by Bento, and Yang Hyun-joon (Gangwon) is the only ‘new face’ to receive.
Yang Hyun-joon contributed 8 goals and 4 assists in K-League 1 this season and took the lead in Gangwon’s final A, and in the friendly match between Tottenham Hotspur and the K-League starting team (Team K-League) in Korea in July, he made a big breakthrough with a bold breakthrough once morest the Tottenham defense. drew attention
Yang Hyun-joon, who expressed his impressions of the first call, “half anticipation, half worry,” expressed his ambition, “I want to show coach Bento that I have a competitive edge.”
The national team, who entered NFC with a welcome from fans at the entrance, spent the first day concentrating on recovery training, etc. amid the support of 300 fans, which was held as an ‘open training’.
◇ List of players for the September evaluation match of the national soccer team
▲ Goalkeeper = Seung-gyu Kim (Al-Shabaab) Beom-geun Song (Jeonbuk) Dong-jun Kim (Jeju)
▲ DF = Kim Min-jae (Naples) Kim Young-kwon Kim Tae-hwan (Ulsan) Kwon Kyeong-won (Gamba Osaka) Jo Yu-min (Daejeon Hana Citizen) Kim Moon-hwan Kim Jin-soo (Jeonbuk) Jong-gyu Yoon (Seoul) Hong Chul (Daegu)
▲ MF = Woo-Young Jung (Al Sad) Seung-Ho Baek (Jeonbuk) Jun-Ho Son (Taishan Shandong) In-Beom Hwang (Olympiacos) Jae-Sung Lee (Mainz) Chang-Hoon Kwon (Chun) Jung Woo-Young (Freiburg) Kang-In Lee (Mallorca) Heung-Min Son (Tottenham) Hee-Chan Hwang (Wolverhampton) Sang-Ho Na (Seoul) Yang Hyun-jun (Gangwon)
▲ FW = Hwang Ui-Jo (Olympiacos) Jo Gyu-Sung (Jeonbuk)
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