The national soccer team, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, has completed all of this year's A-match schedules.
Amid the storm surrounding the coach's appointment process, the national team returned to the World Cup qualifying round with six undefeated matches and a group lead.buy
Reporter Cho Eun-ji summarized the past four months.
[Reporter]
The head coach of the national soccer team, who was selected for more than five months after two temporary coaches, was Hong Myung-bo.
Contrary to the promise, the feeling of betrayal that suddenly left Ulsan coincided with mistakes and misunderstandings in the appointment process,
[Park Joo-ho / Commentator / Former Power Reinforcement Committee member] (YouTube 'Captain Pachuho') : Nothing has been done within the process.]
Coach Hong, who took the helm again for the first time in 10 years, had to bow his head several times from the start.
[Hong Myung-bo / Head coach of the national soccer team] (Inaugural press conference, July): I will take a bigger responsibility with a sense of debt.]
In his debut match, the home game was overshadowed by strong boos, and Hong Myung-bo was twisted from the first step by drawing with Palestine.
[Hong Myung-bo / Coach of the national soccer team] [(Debut match, September): I think I'll have to endure it in the future]
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducted a high-intensity specific audit aimed at the appointment of the coach, and Hong was the first head coach of the national soccer team to be called to the National Assembly and shouted "break through the front."
[Hong Myung-bo / Coach of the Korean national soccer team] (National Assembly Style Committee, September): I don't think it's unfair or that there's preferential treatment.]
Despite the chaotic atmosphere outside the soccer field, Hong Myung-bo returned to the half with six undefeated matches in the third round of the World Cup qualifying round as new faces of young blood were added to the main players of the World Cup Round of 16.
He shook off the team's so-called "table tennis gate" and is on the verge of going to the World Cup finals for the 11th consecutive time.
[Hong Myung-bo / National soccer team coach: We focused on the qualification for the World Cup and didn't think about anything else.]
Coach Hong described the dense four months as a "tough journey," and attention is also being paid to whether he can still turn his half-hearted angry fan sentiment.
I'm Jo Eun Ji of YTN.
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