DISCLAIMER: I know Seol usually does this but the game is in 12 hours so I figured I'd give it a go. If mods are unhappy that I did this, apologies, I looked in a few places to see if it was Seol's official duty to do this or whatever, but could not find anything. Skinny: Friendly vs. Mali October 15, 2013 Television: .. don't live in Korea, someone help Venue: Cheonan Baekseok Stadium, Cheonan, Republic of Korea Cheonan Stadium, home to Cheonan City FC, competing in the National League, third tier of Korean football pyramid (underneath K-League Classic and K-League Challenge) What time does the game start here? October 15th, 8:00 PM - Korea Time October 15th, 11:00 AM - Mali Time October 15th, 7:00 AM - Eastern Time (New York, Toronto) October 15th, 4:00 AM - Pacific Time October 15th, Noon - UK Time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html First meeting between these two sides. FIFA crappy Rankings As of October 2013 38th in the world 58th (crappy rankings, I tell ya!) I'm sure someone will post a streaming link. I have a few resources as well.
FIFA ranking won't matter because Asia is the lowest ranking continent and will be the lower seed bracket along with North America. FIFA ranking will matter when 2018 World Cup qualifying comes around and will come into play during the seeding of that competition. Until then, ignore it. Let us focus on getting better and prepare for 2014 brazil and the Asian cup the yr after. Edit: prediction on mail game? 2-1 Korea with son and chungyong scoring
I do hope we do better than 2-1. I'm going with 3-1 or hopefully 3-0. Goals from Kimbo, Son and Mr. Sangju Sangmu. JSR won't start between the sticks.
Thanks 12th and I would rep that comment if the rep button would show up (do people have this issue too? Where the rep button refuses to appear?) And derp, the rankings are based on September. The October rankings are released on Thursday. Not that anyone cares.
For the clueless non-Hangeul reading Kyopos that's: Jung Sung Ryong (wha...) Kim-Jin Su, Hong Jeong Ho, Kim Young Gwon, Lee Yong Ki Sung Yueng, Han Kook Young Koo Ja Cheol, Son Heung Min. Lee Chung Young Lee Keun Ho
I need to hug this guy, however this cpak04 dude is. Here's the stream to the game. http://www.justin.tv/cpak04#/w/7162400784
My thoughts on the lineup so far - Koo again? Ugh. No Kimbo? He was like, our only threat in the Brazil. Is HMB fiddling around? Lee Keun Ho the lone striker? No confirmation of that yet but it looks like it. Jung again? I really hope HMB does not have THAT much belief in him to start him in practically every game. Other than that the defence and HKY KSY pairing are all good. It's clear our struggles are in the midfield/attack.
Mali call-ups: Goalkeepers: Germain Berthé (Onze-Créateurs), Abdoulaye Samaké (COB) Defenders: Ousmane Coulibaly (Brest, France), Adama Tamboura ( FC Randers, Denmark) Idrissa Coulibaly ( Raja de Casablanca, Morocco), Mahamadou N’Diaye (Troyes, France), Boubacar Sylla ( RC Lens, France) Midfield: Seydou Keita (Dalian Aerbin FC, China), Tongo Hamed Doumbia (Valenciennes FC, France), Ismael Keita (SCO Angers, France) Samba Sow (Karabükspor, Turkey), Abdou Traoré (Bordeaux, France), Yacouba Sylla (Aston Villa, England), Sambou Yatabaré (Olympiakos, Greece) Forwards: Kalifa Coulibaly (PSG, France), Mana Dembélé (Clermont Foot, France), Mahamadou Samassa (Chievo Verona, Italy), Modibo Maiga (West Ham United FC, England) Captain Thanks to Tavern of the Taegeuk Warriors. Hope you don't mind.
Didn't know we had so many Aussie fans. The game is on shortly. If I ever do another match thread, I'll be sure to put you in there. G'day from Canada!