Starting with Kuwait’s away game, Hong Myung-bo, who will play two straight A matches in November, will finally gather in one place.
Led by coach Hong Myung-bo, 55, the Korean national soccer team will face Kuwait in the fifth Group B match of the third Asian qualifying round for the 2026 North-China World Cup, which will take place at Jabeur Al Ahmed International Stadium in Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait on Sunday. Korea, which is leading Group B with three wins and one draw, must win if it wants to overcome the seventh-level ridge of its advance to the World Cup finals.
To that end, the national team arrived in Kuwait, a battleground, on the 11th to improve its condition. What is unfortunate is that the players have yet to start their first training sessions as a whole.
In the first training session, only 21 players, including 10 players (Cho Hyun-woo, Kim Kyung-min, Lee Chang-geun, Lee Myung-jae, Lee Ki-hyuk, Kim Moon-hwan, Lee Tae-seok, Kim Bong-soo, Joo Min-kyu, Oh Se-hoon), players active in the Middle East (Jeong Seung-hyun, Park Yong-woo, Kwon Kyung-won, Cho Yoo-min), and some European players (Kim Min-jae, Hong Hyun-seok, Lee Jae-sung, Jung Woo-young, Baek Seung-ho, Bae Joon-ho, and Hwang In-beom), who joined the team first from Europe.
While the training began, Lee Hyun-joo (Hanover) and Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain), who were selected for the first time for the national team, arrived in Kuwait. Finally, if Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Seol Young-woo (Zvezda), and Oh Hyun-kyu (Henk) join in the afternoon of the 12th, 26 players will be complete. 스포츠토토
Team Korea is set to play in the match against Kuwait after coordinating their hands and feet in the last training session on Monday, when they can virtually step on the Jabeur Al-Hamed International Stadium. For Hong, it has become more important than ever to draw players’ abilities within the framework of the national team’s basic tactics that have been strengthened since September.
After facing Kuwait, the national team will move to Jordan for Game 6 against Palestine.