The Korean national soccer team led by coach Jurgen Klinsmann will advance to the top of Asia. They will join forces to win the Asian Cup, their long-cherished dream. They have confirmed 26 players who will participate in the 2023 AFC (Asian Football Confederation) Qatar Asian Cup, which will kick off on January 13 (Korea time), and are aiming to win the title.
Korea was in Group E of this year’s event. It will have group matches against Bahrain on Saturday, Jordan on Sunday, and Malaysia on Sunday. If it ranks second in the group, it can advance to the round of 16. If it ranks third, it will compare its performance with the third-ranked teams in other groups and seek to acquire a wild card. The round of 16 best teams to the final will be held in tournaments. It will earn seven matches to win the championship.
Until now, the Asian Cup jinx has struggled so hard that even the term “Asian Cup jinx” could be coined. Since winning the title in consecutive events in Hong Kong in 1956 and the Korean in 1960, the Asian Cup has never won the title. Until the 1992 Japanese competition, the Asian Cup status was not very high. There were times when Korea lost its power to the Asian Cup. Anyway, after winning the first and second competitions, the Korean team was the runner-up on four occasions.
Since the 1996 UAE competition, elite athletes have competed. However, their dream to win the title was not achieved. In the 1996 quarterfinal match, the team suffered 2-6 crushing defeat to Iran. It was third place at the Lebanon event in 200, and again lost to Iran 3-4 in the quarterfinal match at the China event in 2004. The team also ranked third in the 2007 four-nation Southeast Asian Games and the 2011 Qatar event. 스포츠토토
She had a chance to win the title at the 2015 World Cup in Australia. She advanced to the final stage with good performance from the group league. She grabbed a ticket to the final match for the first time in 28 years since the 1988 Qatar competition. However, she lost to Australia, her home team, in the final. Son Heung-min’s dramatic equalizer pushed the score to extra time, but the score was 1-2 and she had to settle for the runner-up. She then met Qatar 0-1 in the quarterfinals at the 2019 UAE competition.
Two wins, four runner-ups, and four third-place finishes. That doesn’t seem like a bad record. However, it is a different story for Korea, which is proud of being the strongest in Asia. In particular, the fact that Korea has not won the title for as long as 64 years remains the “han” of soccer fans. While Korea was unable to reach the top, Japan showed rapid growth and lifted many Asian Cups. After recording its first win in its own competition in 1992, it conquered the top in 2000, 2004, and 2007. It has established itself as the most winning team (four times). After Japan, Iran and Saudi Arabia won three times, with Korea moving to Kuwait, Iraq, Australia, Qatar, and Israel, which moved to the UEFA, recording one win.