A de facto amateur club with 50,000 people associated with small town Crosby
Director Mourinho “I will do my best to win… How to respect that”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ahn Hong-seok = Marine FC, the English football division 8 league team, is ready to welcome Tottenham Hotspur in the English professional football Premier League (EPL), which is filled with world-class soccer stars.
Home to Crosby, a small city with a population of 50,000 on the northwest coast of England, Marine FC competes in the England’s eighth division.
Marine FC, founded in 1894 and with a history of 127 years, switched from amateur to professional team in 1974, but it is still very small.
It is a team with a strong’early football’ character, in which players whose main job is nurses, teachers, and environmental cleansers play league games every weekend to promote friendship.
Marine FC in the first round of the English Football Association (FA Cup) caused a blue light to defeat Colchester United in the fourth division at the end of a penalty shootout. I got to the round.
The team that meets at home in the third round (round of 64) is Tottenham fighting to win the EPL.
According to a BBC report on the 9th, Marine FC clubs and fans are busy moving to greet stars such as Son Heung-min and Harry Kane, the King of England.
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Paul Leary, who took the position of Marine FC as an accountant, said, “We cannot operate the buffet due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), but we prepared a ‘5-star lunch box’ for Daniel Levy Tottenham.” I will also clean it.”
The team’s name, Marine, is taken from the largest hotel in Crosby.
Tottenham players familiar with Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and state-of-the-art training grounds should use the hotel’s bar as a locker room. It’s a bar that is sometimes used for wedding receptions and birthday parties, the BBC reported.
Head coach Morinho will give a tactical briefing to the players in the hotel’s’Aria Suite’.
Volunteers were responsible for the preparation work.
Chairman Leary said, “Our club rolls into volunteer work and love for the team.”
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The expectations of the fans are also skyrocketing. Due to Corona 19, the game had to be played without spectators, but the club sold out all’virtual tickets’.
All it takes was to write the name of the ticket buyer on one wall of the stadium, and 6,400 people bought it.
Marine FC and Tottenham match the match between David and Goliath at 2 am on the 11th at Rosset Park, the Marine home stadium.
It is unclear whether Tottenham’s star players will play at Rosset Park as the Marine FC club and fans wish.
Tottenham’s coach Jose Mourinho, who has to play the EPL and FA Cups as well as the League Cup and the UEFA Europa League, has the potential to give key players such as Son Heung-min and Kane a break against Marine FC.
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However, it is expected that the away squad will not be formed only with players or youth team players that were previously classified as non-electric.
According to the Tottenham club’s homepage, coach Mourinho decided to confirm the away roster, with only one player under the age of 18.
In addition, Gareth Bale, a star player who has been soothing, goes on an expedition.
“I always believe that the best way to respect the opposing team is to beat the team,” said Morinyu. “I will do my best to prepare for the match against Marine FC. That’s the attitude of the big club to the FA Cup.”
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2021/01/09 10:34 sent