Topping the lineup was Minnesota’s Sangbin Jeong.
Olympic Team Korea head coach Hwang Sun-hong on Monday named his final 23-man roster for the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup in Doha, Qatar, in April. The tournament will serve as the final qualifier for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The U-23 Asian Cup will feature 16 teams, with the top three qualifying directly to the Olympic Games, while the fourth-placed team will play a playoff against the fourth-placed team from the African qualifiers. South Korea is in Group B and will face the UAE (Nov. 16), China (Nov. 19), and Japan (Nov. 22). South Korean soccer will be trying to qualify for its 10th consecutive Olympic Games since the 1988 Seoul Games.
Hwang wasted no time getting back to his day job.
After returning home from Thailand on July 27, 카지노사이트 Hwang met with the Olympic team at the arrival site of the 2024 West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) U-23 Championship on July 28. With Myung Jae-yong at the helm, the Olympic team defeated Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and Australia to win the tournament. Hwang immediately traveled to Mochae with his coaching staff to work on the final roster. They held marathon meetings overnight. Hwang had already seen the team play at the WAFF U-23 Championship, but he reviewed it again with the local coaching staff and selected the players.
The majority of the roster was made up of players who had recently competed in the West Asian Federation U-23 Championship in Saudi Arabia. Among the overseas players called up were Bae Junho (Stoke City), Kim Ji-Soo (Brentford) and Yang Hyun-Joon (Celtic). As the U-23 Asian Cup is not an official FIFA A-match window, teams cannot be forced to withdraw players. They were joined by Kim Min-woo (Düsseldorf), who made the final roster with the cooperation of his club. The most notable addition to the roster was K Mbappe. He has been the ace of the Olympic team lately, scoring a goal against France. However, he was a surprise addition to the roster as he was not expected to make the team. One of the Olympic team’s problems was attacking, and the addition of Jung Sang-bin, who can play up front and on the flanks, is a welcome relief.
Also on board are K-League standouts
Uhm Ji Sung (Gwangju), Kang Sung-jin (Seoul), Hwang Jae-won (Daegu), Jang Si-young (Ulsan) and Kim Jung-hoon (Jeonbuk). The roster includes five members of last year’s U-20 World Cup quarterfinals in Argentina (Kim Ji-su, Bae Jun-ho, Kang Sung-jin, Kang Sang-yoon, Lee Young-joon), three gold medalists from the Hangzhou Asian Games (Kim Jung-hoon, Hwang Jae-won, Ahn Jae-joon), and two players from the Asian Cup in January (Kim Ji-su, Yang Hyun-joon).
Hwang will once again travel around the K League this weekend to check on the players’ performance. From April, it’s full-on U-23 Asian Cup mode. On April 1, the team will be called up again in Korea, and on April 5, they will leave for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a final tune-up in Dubai. On April 9, the team will play a practice match against a Middle Eastern team before traveling to Doha for the final qualifier on April 10. 안전놀이터 The schedule for players from overseas clubs will be decided at a later date.