In terms of objective power, Korea is absolutely inferior to Japan.
Japan is seventh in FIFA women’s rankings. It is the highest in Asia.
South Korea is 19th, ranking fifth among the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) countries following Japan, North Korea (9th), Australia (15th) and China (18th).
Japan advanced to the quarterfinals at both the FIFA Women’s World Cup last year and the Paris Olympics this year, and finished second at the U-20 Women’s World Cup last month.
Korea, on the other hand, received poor result report that it was eliminated in the group stage at the Women’s World Cup, and failed to make it to the finals at the Paris Olympics. The U-20 Women’s World Cup also packed its bags in the round of 16.
South Korea has won only four of its 33 matches against Japan.
In the recent seven matches between Korea and Japan, the team had no win, with three draws and four losses. The first task for the Korean women’s soccer team, which has been reorganized under the “Shin Sang-woo system,” is a match between Korea and Japan.
The women’s national team, led by head coach Shin Sang-woo, will play a friendly match against the Japanese women’s national soccer team at the Tokyo National Stadium at 2:20 p.m. on the 26th.
Coach Shin Sang-woo, who was appointed as the new captain on the 10th after Colin Bell, who led the national team for the past four years and eight months, terminated his contract with the Korea Football Association early and left, will face Japan, a women’s soccer powerhouse, from his debut as the head coach of the national team.
He was playing a match between Korea and Japan in the enemy camp, and he was faced with bad injury even before he left the port.
First of all, the failure of “Ace” Ji So-yeon (Seattle Lane) to be dispatched is the most noticeable.
Ji So-yeon scored 71 goals in 160 A matches, making it a key resource to write the history of the most games played and most scored by any Korean male and female player.
Ji So-yeon, who was called by head coach Shin Sang-woo, was excluded from the call-up list due to a knee injury, and Yeo Min-ji (Gyeongju KHNP) filled the position instead.
Lee Geum-min (Birmingham City) was also replaced by Kang Chae-rim (Suwon FC) due to injury.
In the first round of Shin Sang-woo, overseas players such as Cho So-hyun, Choi Yu-ri (Birmingham City), and Casey Eugene Fair (Angel City), who have been the main players of the national team, were excluded, and most of the WK League members made up the list. 토토사이트
In the end, as Ji So-yeon and Lee Geum-min’s transfer failed, Shin Sang-woo went on an expedition to Japan with only Lee Young-joo (Levante Badalona) and Lee Soo-bin (Einak Kobe) joining.
Coach Shin, who is familiar with the WK League, has set up a stage to test the possibility of a “Shin Sang-woo system” including six “new faces” against Japan, a women’s soccer powerhouse.