Corona 19 confirmed Ju Se-jong, knee injury, umwonsang also absent… Jae-Wan Cho, Jin-Hyun Lee, In-Sung Kim’Substitute Selection’
▲ Son Heung-min is warming up ahead of the match against Arsenal in the 2020-2021 England Professional Football Premier League (EPL) round 28 held at the Emirates Stadium in London on the 14th (local time). On this day, Son Heung-min was replaced in the 19th minute due to a thigh muscle injury during the game. (London = AP/Newsis)
Sohn Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur), an ace of the Korean national football team, finished the match between Korea and Japan.
The Korea Football Association (KFA) said on the 21st, “Son Heung-min was excluded from the convocation due to a hamstring injury. Through the talks with the Tottenham club and staff, he was informed that Son Heung-min was unable to select the national team due to injury.
The Korean soccer team, led by coach Paulo Bento, is set to have a friendly match for the Korea-Japan national team on March 25 at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan.
To make matters worse, midfielder Ju Se-jong (Gamba Osaka) was confirmed to have a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), and flank striker Um Won-sang (Gwangju) was also unable to join the national team due to a knee injury, resulting in a weakening of Bento’s power.
As a result, Paulo Bento’s national team coach has selected Cho Jae-wan (Gangwon), Lee Jin-hyun (Daejeon Hana Citizen), and Kim In-seong (Ulsan) as substitutes.
Son Heung-min complained of pain in the left thigh in the match against Arsenal on the 15th (Korean time) and was replaced in 19 minutes in the first half.
On the same day, when announcing the list of 24 people to be launched one day ago, Bento decided to include Son Heung-min on the list and then watch the injured condition and decide whether to call.
Tottenham reported to the Football Association on the 21st that Son Heung-min, who was injured in a hamstring, refused to select.
Kim Min-jae (Beijing Guoan), Kim Jin-soo (Al Nasr), Kwon Gyeong-won (Kim Cheon), Hwang In-beom (Rubin Kazan), Hwang Ui-jo (Bordeaux), Lee Jae-seong (Holstein Kill), Hwang Hee-chan ( Leipzig) and others were left for reasons such as corona 19 quarantine measures and injury, and the national team’s power weakened inevitably. In addition, as Son Heung-min, Ju Se-jong, and Um Won-sang were dropped, the Bento was actually closer to the second group.
The Bento will be convened at Incheon Airport on the morning of the 22nd, departed for Narita Airport, Japan, and then moved to Yokohama to prepare one day before one. The national team will return to Korea on the afternoon of the 26th, move to the Paju NFC (National Team Training Center) immediately, and continue training by quarantining the same group (cohort) until the 2nd of next month.