Women\s Soccer Team Returns Home After Being Eliminated From the
Women"s soccer team returns home after being eliminated from the World Cup group stage... Hangzhou AG Commitment
The women"s national soccer team, which was eliminated after finishing the group stage of the 2023 FIFA World Cup in Australia and New Zealand with 1 draw and 2 losses, returned home.
The women"s soccer team, led by coach Colin Bell (England), completed the World Cup group stage schedule and arrived at Incheon International Airport on the 5th.
All the players came in except for Casey Eugene Fair (PDA), a 16-year-old biracial player who went straight back to her hometown of the United States.
In this tournament, Korea competed against Germany, Colombia, and Morocco in Group H of the group stage, finishing at the bottom of the group (1 point) with 1 draw and 2 losses and was eliminated.
After losing 0-2 to Colombia on the 25th of last month and 0-1 to Morocco on the 30th, advancing to the round of 16 became difficult. I had to.
Korean women"s soccer, which reached the round of 16 for the first time in history at the 2015 Canadian tournament and was eliminated in the French tournament in 2019 with three consecutive losses in the group stage, worked with coach Bell, the first foreign coach in history, for nearly four years to prepare for this tournament. I realized the wall of the world.
In the final game, it was evaluated as "the beauty of the end" to win the World Cup finals in 8 years by preventing Germany, 2nd in the FIFA rankings, from advancing to the round of 16, but it was cold-hearted, such as being caught by Morocco, 72nd in the FIFA rankings. Reality was confirmed at the same time.
Coach Bell said, "We showed what we can do in the match against Germany, but it"s unfortunate that it didn"t come out in the first and second games." "he said.
The national team, which has returned with many tasks including the need for a generational change, promises the Hangzhou Asian Games, which will open next month.
In the Hangzhou Asian Games women"s soccer, which will be held from September 25th, Korea will play the group stage in Group E with Hong Kong, the Philippines and Myanmar.
The five top-ranked countries in each group and the three best-performing countries in each group advance to the quarterfinals to compete for medals.
South Korea"s best performance in women"s soccer at the Asian Games was to win bronze medals in the last three competitions (Guangzhou 2010, Incheon 2014, Jakarta/Palembang 2018).
After the Asian Games, the second round of Asian qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics will follow in October.
Veteran midfielder Cho So-hyun (independent), who remained as Korea"s only scorer in this World Cup, also said, "If we had shown a little more of what we had in the first and second games, it would have been regrettable if we could have advanced to the round of 16."
I will prepare well for the Asian Games this year.” Garam Cheon (Hwacheon KSPO), a striker born in 2002 who played as a starter in the match against Germany , said, “I was happy to face a strong opponent with the support of Korean fans in a crowd of 40,000.
I could feel it," he said, "I want to continue learning with a low attitude and participate in future competitions."
The domestic women"s unemployment soccer WK League, which had been suspended since June 16, is scheduled to resume on the 22nd.