Hwang In-beom, Lee Jae-seong, Kim Jin-soo, Kim Moon-hwan, Kwon Gyeong-won, etc. also fell out of the bad news of Son Heung-min’s injury.
The national team’complete’ training is only one day on the 24th… “I will look good with the players”
“If I lose Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan, I think you will know what kind of difficulties there will be without having to tell them.
“(Paulu Bento)
Coach Paulo Bento (52, Portugal) of the soccer national team, which is about to have a’friendship evaluation match’ with the Japanese soccer team, which was successful in 10 years, made a list of 24 people to go to Korea and Japan (25th, Yokohama, Japan) at the soccer center in Seoul on the 15th. The expression wasn’t very bright when I announced.
The national team almost disappeared from the opportunity to play a real match after the visit to Austria in November last year, as the second qualifying round for the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asia region, which had to be held in March due to the worldwide epidemic of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), was delayed to June. .
After twists and turns, at the request of the Japan Football Association, the schedule for the March evaluation match was difficult, but coach Bento had to face difficulties in selecting players due to the influence of Corona 19.
In addition,’core striker’ Son Heung-min (Tottenham) complained of pain in the left thigh in 19 minutes at the Arsenal and’North London Derby’ held at the dawn of the day to make matters worse.
Bento had no choice but to include Son Heung-min on the list of 24 people from Korea and Japan, but there was a possibility that he could not convene depending on the severity of the injury.
Here, Hwang Hee-chan (Leipzig) is at a stage where his team and the state government are discussing exemption from quarantine after returning to the country after confirming the player’s destination and itinerary, so it is unclear whether or not to pick it up.
Because of this, Bento picked 24 people, one more than the original 23 list.
Although it was difficult to pick 24 people, many of the’Kaft Core’ players who have played the central role of the Bento have been missing out, and it became the shape of the’half-sized’ national team.
Defender Kim Min-jae (Beijing Guoan) and last year’s K-League 1 MVP Son Jun-ho (Shandong Luneng), as well as striker Hwang Eui-jo (Bordeaux), were selected according to Corona 19 while the convocation of Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan are virtually unclear. Conversely, I couldn’t join.
In addition, Jae-seong Lee (Holstein Kill) of the offensive line is self-isolation as a corona 19 confirmed by his team recently, and In-beom Hwang (Rubin Kazan), the core of the midfielder, and Jin Jin-soo Kim (Al Nasr), left fullback, injured Achilles side by side. In addition, defender Kwon Gyeong-won (Kim Cheon) is also in a state of’opening closure’ due to a back injury.
As the forefront offensive resource, Bento was forced to call Lee Jeong-hyup (Gyeongnam) from K League 2 (Second Division) and Cho Young-wook (Seoul), who had no experience in A match.
In addition, it is regrettable that Bento was not able to bring in many players of the’U-23 age range’ as the U-23 national team prepared for convocation training during the March A match period.
Director Bento also explained the limitations of the list call.
He said, “I had a lot of trouble making the list.
The defensive line’s Kim Min-jae, Kim Jin-su, Kim Moon-hwan (LAFC), and Kwon Gyeong-won were also players who often convened, but they fell out.” “I can’t.”
“From a more negative perspective, I think that if you lose Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan, you will know all the difficulties without having to say anything.”
“We will bring good results by researching how we can play the best game in consideration of changes in the environment and specificity,” he emphasized.
Not only is it difficult to organize players, but it is difficult to train properly even after moving to Japan on the 22nd.
There are also limited days when overseas players can directly join Japan and train as a’complete’.
Manager Bento said, “This call is very short, and it seems that there will be only one day before the game where all players can train.”
Although there were many difficulties, I made the list as best I could.
I will overcome difficulties with the players and show a good figure.”
/yunhap news