Full body training at Paju NFC on 21 … Interested in following in the footsteps of Park Ji-sung, who led the round of 16
At the Qatar World Cup in November, the Korean national football team, aiming to pass the third group stage in history, finally conducted a comprehensive training session.
The football team, led by coach Paulo Bento, trained at the Paju National Team Training Center in the province of Gyeonggi for about two hours on the morning of the 21st. The Bentuho, called up on the 19th, joined Kim Min- jae (Naples), Hwang Ui-jo and Hwang In-beom (Olympiacos) in the afternoon of the 20th and became a complete group. It will be the first time in six months since the last qualifying round for the World Cup in March that the best players of the national team will gather. In June, when there were four matches in A Match, key European players such as Kim Min-jae and Lee Jae-seong (Mainz) were unable to participate due to injuries.
The match between Costa Rica and Cameroon, which will take place on 23 and 27, is in fact the launching ceremony of the World Cup. An evaluation match is scheduled for November before the World Cup starts, but it is difficult for foreign players to join.
In fact, being the last evaluation match before the World Cup, the determination of the national team captain Son Heung-min (30, Tottenham) is also extraordinary. Son Heung-min said on the 20th: “I think the atmosphere of match A did not go very well ahead of the World Cup ahead of the World Cup. I want to show the fans that we are truly united.”
This World Cup is the third World Cup for Son Heung-min. At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he scored a goal as the youngest member of the national team and scored two goals in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where he played as leaders in the English Premier League (EPL). Together with Ahn Jung-hwan (MBC football commentator) and Ji-seong Park (technical director of Jeonbuk Hyundai), he holds the record for the most goals scored by a Korean player in the World Cup finals, but unlike them not has ever made it through the group stage.
Son Heung-min, who is aiming for the round of 16 for the first time, emphasized his mentality. He said: “I’m afraid of the World Cup, but I think it’s a festival all over the world, including Korea. It’s important to enjoy it together,” he said.
There is a lot of interest that Son Heung-min, who has become a world-class striker who commands the EPL, can follow in the footsteps of Park Ji-sung, the “eternal captain” who led the first away match of 16 Korea 12 years ago. Son Heung-min has a lot in common with Park Ji-sung during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. At the time, Ji-Sung Park was also the captain of the Premier League and the national team. Heung-min Son also took over Park Ji-sung’s number 7 shirt.
This evaluation game is very important to Son Heung-min, who must now write a new story. Son Heung-min said: “These two evaluation matches have a special meaning for me. We will definitely have good results.”
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