Hong Myung -bo, “I wish I had a good heart in Korea and Japan”… ‘Captain’ Cho Hyun -woo “This time I’ll finish with ‘0’” (SS site)

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(Sports Seoul | Seongnam = Kim Yong -il)

Hong Myung -bo, a soccer team who competed with Japan, wanted to show the best performance of the players rather than the burden of winning and losing in the past.

Hong met with the reporters at the Seongnam Stadium, the 14-day training field, a day before the final three games of the E-1 E-1 Championship (East Asian Cup) and 2025 East Asian Football Federation (East Asian Cup). I hope that it will not be more important because of the burden of victory.

Korea and Japan have two wins side by side with China and Hong Kong. Japan is two goals in the goal room. Japan can win the East Asian Cup with just a bit. Korea must win six years after the 2019 tournament and will be the sixth champion. Hong said, “I think it’s the final. I will play a game.”

The competition is absent from the A -match period designated by the FIFA. Instead, representative domestic resources are combined to compete. It is an opportunity to expand the talent pool. Both Korea and Japan have experimented with the start of the 2026 North and Central America World Cup a year ahead of the finals of the last two games. However, Korea -Japan rivals are different. The winning team can take a light step toward the finals, but the defeated team can have a negative impact on the atmosphere.

Hong hoped that the player did not have to be obsessed with the uniqueness of Korea -Japan War, but he wanted to express the prepared process well. “I can’t predict a year after a year, but I confirmed the player who could play as a representative player in the World Cup through the East Asian Cup.”

Korea is ahead of 42 wins and 23 draws and 16 losses in Japan’s A -match. However, in the recent two confrontations, all of them were defeated 0-3. Paulo Bento, who led the 2022 Catar World Cup Round of 16. The ‘claim’ goalkeeper Cho Hyun -woo has played during the 2022 East Asian Cup, which was most recently competed with Japan. “I have the conviction and faith that the director can definitely win if he plays,” he said. kyi0486@sportsseoul.com