Korean Women's National Teams Thread [R]

Yes. along with Incheon Hyundai Steel, though Incheon has been very dominant as of late.

 

Our u16 beat Japan in the AFC championship by penalties. Now we will play Bukan in the finals.

 

Not that i expected any differently but that was...difficult to watch.

 

But you've qualified for the U-17 WWC next year, so congratulations.

 

lost to Bukan 2-0

 

we are playing USA in a two match series. The first game is right now at 5:30pm. the second match is on Oct 22

 

Jeon Ga-eul joins the Australian club, Melbourne Victory.

https://www.melbournevictory.com.au/news/south-korean-international-joins-w-league

 

maybe ill have to check out a womens match some day

 

I like her

 

yup. Mizz Mina... got skillz too.

 

She's moving to INAC Kobe next season. Would have preferred to see her in Europe or the US, but at least Japan will be a bit more of a challenge. She's outgrown WK-League.

This video shows why she needs a greater challenge. In like 85-90% of the touches in this video, she's coughing up possession. Needs to see this kind of pace and physicality every week to speed up her decision making and reactions. She'll never fare well against big players as she's so tiny, but she needs to solve pressure at a higher level now. Same thing happened against the USA, speed of the US overwhelmed her. She adjuted a bit in match two, but it will take longer.

 

Also, in case anyone missed it, Korea got an awful draw for the Asian Cup. Ended up with Australia, Japan and Vietnam. The other group is a cupcake: China, Jordan, Thailand and Philippines. Worst case, Korea should still qualify for the World Cup if they finish 3rd as the other group 3rd place finisher should be an easy win for Korea, but should have been a lot easier.

 

The squad for the 2018 Algarve Cup.

2018알가르베 국제여자축구대회에 참가하는
대한민국 여자국가대표팀 선수들의 명단을 공개합니다!#대한민국국가대표팀 #여자A팀 #윤덕여호 #명단발표 #포르투갈 #알가르베 #WC2018 #KOREA #KOR #대한민국 pic.twitter.com/qB7okVFZqe

— theKFA (@theKFA) February 8, 2018

 

Can someone catch me up? Isn't the Algarve Cup reserved for the top womens teams in the world? We had been participating in the inferior Cyprus Cup to this point, if i am recalling correctly.

 

Cho So-hyun has joined the Norwegian club, Avaldsnes IL.

https://www.h-avis.no/sport/fotball...slagskaptein-klar-for-avaldsnes/s/5-62-560162
https://hnytt.no/2018/02/07/sor-koreanske-landslagskapteinen-spille-avaldsnes/

 

Correct, although there were no specific details regarding the participation other than that our Women's NT were invited to the Algarve Cup for the first time.

1994년 이후 매년 개최되는 알가르베컵은 여자축구 국제친선대회 가운데 가장 권위있는 대회다. 우리 대표팀은 같은 기간 열리는 키프로스컵에 2011년부터 6회 참가했으나, 올해 처음으로 알가르베컵 초청을 받았다고 축구협회는 설명했다.

 

interesting....the attendee list is almost exactly the same as 2017 -- us replacing Spain is the only difference. Spain is playing in the Cyprus Cup instead. I can't seem to find the reason for the swap.

 

My only guess is that Spain did poorly in the last edition of the Women's World Cup in Canada 2015 (Group stage exit), whilst our Women's NT made the first ever Round of 16 finish.

 

Algarve Cup is not quite the same stature of tournament that it was since the US left it two years ago and started their own tournament with France, England and Germany. That took the top teams in the world out of it.

 

She could have been playing in the US but she let a really sleazy afena give her bad advice.

 

That should be "sleazy agent" don't know where "afena" came from.

 

Ah, the SheBelieves Cup or whatever? I was wondering what that was supposed to be.

 

Exactly. Money making opportunity for USSF, so it's now an annual thing.

 

So essentially, the 4 cool kids went out and formed their own exclusive club and so now there are 3 tiers of these annual women's friendly tournaments happening at roughly the same time. I guess it's very relieving to know Korea got into the second tier. Can't help but feel they are going to be outclassed at the Algarve Cup, though. While they performed well at Cyprus last year, I feel like they've had their hands full in past editions.