The U-23 national soccer team, led by head coach Hwang Sun-hong, will convene and train mainly on domestic players at Icheon Stadium in Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of the 1st. 토토사이트
On the 29th of last month, the Korea Football Association announced 23 members of the U-23 national team to compete in the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup in Doha, Qatar, from the 15th of next month.
Key overseas players, including Stoke City midfielder Bae Joon-ho of the English Championship (part 2), Brentford defender Kim Ji-soo of the Premier League (EPL), Scottish Celtic striker Yang Hyun-joon and German Bundesliga second-division Düsseldorf midfielder Kim Min-woo, were named.
The top striker of Minnesota United in the U.S., who did not participate in the recently won West Asian Football Confederation (WAFF) U-23 Championship, was also included.
Among the 18 players in Korea, Kang Sung-jin, Lee Tae-seok (Seoul), Ahn Jae-joon (Bucheon), Um Ji-sung (Gwangju), and Hwang Jae-won (Daegu) were chosen by Hwang.
While the timing of overseas players joining Hwang Sun-hong has yet to be determined, 18 of the 23 players from the K League will join the team first in the convocation training in Icheon from today to the 3rd.
The U-23 national team will leave for Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the 5th to continue its adaptation there and enter Doha, Qatar, on the 10th.
The U-23 Asian Cup will also serve as the final Asian qualifying round for the Paris Olympics.
If you are in the top three of the tournament, you will get a direct ticket to Paris, and if you are in the fourth place, you will have to play a playoff against the fourth-place team in the African qualifying round to aim for the finals.
South Korea, which is seeking its 10th consecutive Olympic finals, will face UAE (16th), China (19th) and Japan (22nd) in Group B.