The Korea Football Association (KFA) is nearing the end of its process of appointing the next A national team coach. KFA is expected to hold a power reinforcement committee on the 30th to compress the candidates for the head coach of the A team. Jeong Hae-sung, chairman of the Power Enhancement Committee, said earlier this month that there are 11 leaders (4 Koreans and 7 foreigners) in the candidate group for the next A national team coach. The candidates were selected again through video-face-to-face interviews, and on the same day, the Power Enhancement Committee is expected to outline more distinct candidates for the coach. Hwang Sun-hong, the coach of the…

The Japanese media reported the possibility of Japanese players entering the European big leagues while the Japanese U-23 national soccer team beat Iraq to confirm men’s soccer tickets for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Japan advanced to the final after defeating Iraq 2-0 in the semifinal match of the U-23 Asian Cup held in Alayyan, Qatar, on Thursday. Japan has secured its eighth consecutive Olympic berth. Japan will seek to regain the top spot in the tournament for the first time in eight years since its 2016 victory over Uzbekistan, which beat Indonesia 2-0 in the final. Japan lost to Uzbekistan 0-2 in the semifinals of the 2022 tournament and missed…

Anthony Rizzo (35, New York Yankees), a veteran infielder with 14 years of experience in the Major League, has reached the 300th home run mark in his career. The New York Yankees held an away game against the Milwaukee Brewers at America Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 29th (Korean time). Rizzo, who started as the sixth and first baseman of the New York Yankees, hit Jansen Junk with two outs and a third base in the eighth inning when his team was leading 13-5. He is the fifth player to hit 300 home runs in the season. He is the 12th active hitter and 161st in the Major…

Lee Jung-hoo (26) of the San Francisco Giants continued his hit streak for three consecutive games. However, he still showed weaknesses in fastballs with speeds of 95 mph (152.9 kph), which left him regretful.Lee Jung-hoo started as the first hitter and center fielder in the 2024 Major League Baseball (ML) regular season home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, on the 29th (Korea time) and recorded one hit in four times at bat. As a result, Lee successfully had a hit in three consecutive games and got on base in four consecutive games. His batting average for this season fell from 0.270 to 0.269,…

Anton played a big role, with Daejeon Hana Citizen winning its second league victory. As a member of the three backs, he showed off his solidity in the back, blocking FC Seoul’s offense with his persistent defense. Anton, who was very active, was happy with the team’s victory with a good performance. Anton started the ninth round home game of Hana Bank’s K League 1 2024 against Seoul at Daejeon World Cup Stadium at 2 p.m. on the 27th, helping his team win 3-1. Daejeon, which added three points in four games after winning the Ulsan HD match in the fifth round of the league, moved to 10th place after…

May is here. The fate of Korean soccer is in May. In May, Korea’s next A team coach will be decided.  After Jurgen Klinsmann’s scandal, a new national team’s power elite committee was set up. Chairman Chung Hae-sung and 10 committee members. Chung announced his plan to appoint a new A-team coach by mid-May and take the helm of the second qualifying round for the World Cup in June.  The plan has to stop. First, let’s say Chung will select a new national team coach. Who can trust the coach? Who can support him? Chung and his team members are accomplices of Korea’s failure to advance to the Olympics for…

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, which ranks first in Group B, after a penalty…

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 is not an exaggeration to say…

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 of the tournament…

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 and defense. Indonesia, on the other hand, appropriately mixed fast and ground balls to advance the…