The Korean national soccer team, aiming to conquer the top spot in Asia for the first time in 64 years, entered Qatar, the final match site of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup.The national soccer team, led by coach Jurgen Klinsmann, arrived in Qatar through Hamad International Airport in Doha on the afternoon of the 10th (local time).Klinsmann will participate in the 2023 Asian Cup, which begins on the 12th and runs until the 10th of next month in 9 stadiums in 5 cities in Qatar.
In this Asian Cup, Korean soccer will challenge for its first championship in 64 years.Korea won two consecutive Asian Cup titles in the first tournament held in Hong Kong in 1956 and the second tournament held in Korea in 1960, but only finished as runners-up four times (1972, 1980, 1988, and 2015).This tournament will be held with key players such as Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain), Kim Min-jae (Bayern Munich), and Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton) playing an active role in the European ‘big league’, so it opens with high expectations for the championship. ahead.
The national team, with domestic and some overseas players, gathered in Seoul on the 26th of last month to prepare their bodies mainly through indoor training, and left on the 2nd of this month to continue their final strengthening in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).European players such as Son Heung-min and Lee Kang-in gradually joined to form a ‘complete team’, and in the final evaluation match against Iraq held in Abu Dhabi on the 6th, they won 1-0 and completed the actual review.Korea, belonging to Group E of the group stage, will play its first match against Bahrain on the 15th of this month, followed by Jordan on the 20th and Malaysia on the 25th.The national team is scheduled to begin training for the first time since arriving in Qatar on the 무료슬롯게임 morning of the 11th local time.
