Goals are at 73 and 86 mins. Our celebrations after the goals are incredibly subdued. It's like they didn't want to score.
Congratulations to Korea Republic’s Soyun Ji for taking out both the #CupOfNations Player of the Tournament and Golden Boot awards! pic.twitter.com/wstTLiPO12— CommBank Matildas (@TheMatildas) March 7, 2019
Korea will host Iceland for friendlies on Apr 6 and 9th. Then they'll go into camp on May 7th and have one final warm up match at Sweden on June 1. Not much of a preparation, to be honest, but hopefully they'll be ready.
Call-up list for the Iceland friendly. 2019 여자월드컵 향해!✨대한민국 여자 축구대표팀 #국내친선전!🇰🇷여자 축구대표팀 명단을 공개합니다!🇰🇷v🇮🇸 #아이슬란드✔04.06(토) 14:00 🏟 용인시민체육공원 주경기장✔04.09(화) 16:45 🏟 춘천송암스포츠타운 주경기장 pic.twitter.com/VRH16Lhgum— theKFA (@theKFA) March 21, 2019
There's still time, but these things are on the FA not on Nike. This isn't something the Korean FA has thought about or done in the past. The women's team just wears whatever the most recently launched jersey for the men's team was.
Here comes @Cho8Sohyun...SHE SCORES!REA: ✅❌❌✅✅❌WHU: ✅❌✅❌✅#REAWHU— West Ham United Women (@westhamwomen) April 14, 2019 😀 Smile like you're about to send @westhamwomen to Wembley!👏 The Korean midfielder Cho So-hyun slots home to send the Hammers into dreamland!#ssewomensfacup pic.twitter.com/Yr36hkmTMC— Adobe Women's FA Cup (@AdobeWFACup) April 14, 2019
Chelsea's Ji So-yun nominated for PFA Players' Player of the Year!#PFAawards | @jsy0341 | @ChelseaFCW pic.twitter.com/yBVEF7orDB— Professional Footballers’ Association (@PFA) April 20, 2019
Up, over and in! 💫Ji's goal has got us back in this semi-final! 💪 #CFCOL pic.twitter.com/Jaw9JULBP9— Chelsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) April 28, 2019
The 23 announced. Big omissions are Jeon Ga-eul and Kim Jung-mi (who ruptured an Achilles in camp and will miss the tournament). Park Se-ra, who has played RB in most of the recent friendlies does not make the cut. Han Chae-rin, who has been a regular since she scored on her debut against the USA in 2017, wasn't even brought into the 28 player camp.
I was surprised she was left out (though not as surprised as I was that Han Chae-rin wasn't even brought into camp). Figured Yoon would want the experience. He definitely seems to have gone that way at right back with Park Se-ra left out despite starting almost every game lately. I'd assume Kim Hye-ri will start there just like in 2015. More generally, I'm not sure I understand what Yoon has done the past year plus. Most squads have been highly experimental, a lot of rotation. That's fine at the start of a cycle, it is a bit weird at the end of a cycle. Take the warm up matches, for example. They only have 3, 2 of them were last month against Iceland. 5 of the players called up for those matches (excluding the injuries) weren't even included in the 28 that were taken into pre-WWC camp in Paju. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. It is bizarre.
Ah, I didn't see they were playing -- Sweden beat Korea 1-0 in a Women's World Cup warm-up friendly. https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/match/3000772/sweden-women-vs-korea-republic-women Less than a week until the opening match, France-Korea... It's OK - the World Cup's gonna have a "VAR", which will eliminate all fan complaints, and bring world peace. (It stands for "Very Accurate Robot")
Lee Mina also had a legit complaint for a pen when she got yanked down from behind towards the end of the game.