The under-23 (U-23) soccer team, which has switched to Hwang Seon-hong (53) coaching system, will gather at the NFC (National Football Team Training Center) in Paju on the 27th and start training for the first time.
On the 24th, the Korea Football Association announced the 35-person training call list for the 2022 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup qualifier.
The list includes K League 1 players including Lee Kwang-yeon (Gangwon), Park Ji-min, Kim Joo-seong (Kim Cheon-sang-mu), Kim Se-yoon (Daejeon Hana), Lee Kyu-hyuk (Chungnam Asan), etc. , 2 players and college team players were equally included.
This convening is to prepare for the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualifiers to be held in Singapore from the 23rd of next month. The Asian Cup qualifiers, which are divided into East and West Asia regions, will consist of 11 first-placed teams from 11 groups and 2nd place in each group. The top 4 teams will qualify for the finals. Uzbekistan automatically advances to the final stage as the host country of the finals. Korea is in Group H in the Asian Cup qualifier along with the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Singapore.
Coach Hwang will observe the four-day training for 35 players and then select the players to join on the flight to Singapore.
The Republic of Korea U-23 national team won the championship 1-0 against Saudi Arabia in the final of the ‘2020 Asian Football Federation (AFC) U-23 Championship’ held at Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on the afternoon of the 26th (local time). is lifting 2020.1.27/News1 © News1 Korea is expected to pass the preliminary round without difficulty as Korea is the ‘defending champion’ who won the AFC U-23 Championship in Thailand last year.
What is worth noting in this convening is the meeting between Hwang, who returned to the field after a year since he stepped down from Daejeon Hana Citizen’s command tower in September last year, and young players with a lot of potential.
Hwang is famous for nurturing and discovering players with great potential after taking the baton of the Pohang Steelers in 2010. Shin Jin-ho, Lee Myung-joo, Kim Seung-dae, and Kom-yeol boldly entered the squad with potential rookies as the main players.
In particular, in 2013, with no foreign players, only Korean players such as Kim Seung-dae and Lee Myeong-ju won the K-League, earning the nickname ‘Hwang Seon-Daewon-Gun (Hwang Seon-Hong + Heung-Seon Dae-Won-Gun)’.
That year, Gom Yeol received the K-League Young Player Award for his 8 goals and 5 assists, and many young players emerged as star players under Hwang’s guidance.
The fact that Hwang was able to take charge of the U-23 national team this time was a big deal. At a press conference related to the appointment of Hwang on the 16th, Kim Pan-gon, chairman of the Korea Football Association’s National Team Strengthening Committee, said, “He showed good performance by nurturing young players well even when he led Pohang. He is a well-prepared coach to develop players.”
The U-23 national team is being replaced by generations of players in their early twenties who have the potential to grow further, with the players who have recently made the final eight of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to step down and their talents are not yet in full bloom. The soccer world is very interested in what kind of synergy the meeting between young players and coach Hwang will create in this process.
Kim Jung-su, former coach of the U-19 national team, joined Hwang Seon-hong-ho as a coach. 2020.6.15/News1 © News1 At the same time, I am also looking forward to the chemistry with former U-19 national team coach Kim Jung-soo, whom Hwang appointed as his assistant coach.
Hwang excluded former coach Cheol Cheol, who had accompanied him from the time he took over as the manager of Busan I’Park in 2008 until recently, and appointed former coach Kim as his coach, which is interpreted to be for communication with young players at eye level.
In the past, Hwang has been evaluated for lack of communication compared to the charisma that dominates the team. Whether he was conscious of this, he also emphasized communication on the day of his inauguration. In such a situation, the joining of former coach Kim, who has experience training young players, can be a great help to Hwang Seon-Hong-Ho.
Former coach Kim applied for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a member of the Technology Research Group (TSG) and has a lot of information about the pool of athletes born in 1999. Those born in 1999 are eligible for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
In particular, former coach Kim Sang-bin (Suwon), Uhm Ji-seong (Gwangju), Lee Tae-seok (Seoul), etc., who were recently active in the K-League, were born in 2002-2003, and played a big role in the formation of the squad as they made the quarterfinals in the 2019 U-17 World Cup. is expected to do
(Seoul = News 1)
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