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In the FIFA U-20 World Cup, Kim Eun-joong reached the semi-finals for the second consecutive year and even won the championship.
South Korea, led by coach Kim Eun-joong, won 1-0 after extra time against Nigeria in the quarter-finals of the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup held at the Santiago del Estero Stadium in Argentina on the 5th ( Korean time).
After 90 minutes of the first half and the second half were tied without scoring, Choi Seok-hyun (Dankook University) scored the winning goal with a header in the 5th minute of the first half of extra time.
With this, Korea reached the semi-finals for the second time in a row following the second place in the Polish 2019 tournament, the previous tournament.
This is the fifth time Korean men’s football has reached the semi-finals of a FIFA-sponsored competition, following the 1983 and 2019 tournaments, the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, and the 2012 London Olympics.
Among them, the best result was coming second in the 2019 Under 20 World Cup.
Korea, who reached the semi-finals this time, will compete with Italy for the final. It is also interesting to see if there will be a reward in the future for such achievements.
An official from the Korea Football Association said, “Nothing has been discussed about the award yet.”
In the 2019 competition, which was previously runner-up, the Football Association paid a prize with a special contribution of 1 billion won as a gift from Chairman Mong-gyu Chung.
A special prize of 600 million was given to the athletes and coaches, and 400 million was provided in nursery encouragement to 38 domestic middle and high schools that produced U-20 national team players.
The 21 under 20 runners-up received prize money of around 20 million won each.
If Kim Eun-joong goes beyond Italy and reaches the final, there is a high possibility that the prize will be similar to the one four years ago.
The fact that the prize was distributed in an ‘equal payment’ method rather than a ‘differential payment’ method based on participation time and contribution is based on the precedents that players were paid uniformly in the 2009 Egyptian tournament, which reached quarter finals. The U-20 World Cup, and the Turkey 2013 tournament. because it was referred to.
In the case of the adult national team, the players were paid the same amount of 100 million won during the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, which reached the semi-finals.
Unlike the adult World Cup, there is no separate prize money for the age-specific World Cup, as FIFA does not include commerce.
