You have to figure that China is the favorite to win this one. They will want to avenge their loss to North Korea in the Asian Championships. South Korea, Japan, and Chinese Taipei will likely fight for the bronze.
ah, but given the refing the male Koreans got in their homeland, I wonder what a few kindly calls will do for their women. and how many broken legs will the north koreans inflict??
I'm fairly certain that North Korea is not participating in women's soccer in the Asian Games. Teams are China, S Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam.
Zhang Ou-ying Thing that surprised me the most is Zhang Ou-ying failed to make it to the Chinese national team. She used to be the fastest amount them. Wonder what Spirit would think about that.
What is your source for the PRK Woman's team not playing? It is pretty big if it is true. As for Taiwan, there is no team under the name of Taiwan as it is not a country. Due to pressure from Mainland China, they are not allowed to compete under their own name "the Republic of China" but instead compete as Chinese Taipei and are required to use a flag of Olympic designation and not the flag of the Republic of China.
There are six teams, including North Korea. They are the Republic of Korea, Viet Nam, Chinese Taipei, China, Japan, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. http://www.busanasiangames.org/Eng/
Change of name? Did Busan used to be called Pusan? Like the `Pusan perimeter'? Or is it a wholly different city?
A) The official AFC website - check out http://www.asian-football.com/scripts/runisa.dll?s7:gp::39913+ag/02/w/results+1114+2002 . Was N Korea a late entry/late withdrawl? B) I know the deal with Taiwan/Chinese Taipei and I still call them Taiwan.
Re: Change of name? Same city. Korea, like China in the last 20 years has redone its Romanization system to make it more accurate than those created initially by westerners.
North Korea was indeed a late entry into the whole Asian games. There was some diplomatic manouvering involved, but they were convinced to join in. They were also a late add to the men's soccer tournament as well. Actually, Taiwan would not be accurate as there are parts of Fujian that are controlled by the Republic of China and the government here uses that term.
Here is the Chinese roster: http://www.womensoccer.com/refs/afc-refs/fc-nation_17sept02.html Goalkeepers Zhao Yan Xiao Zhen Defenders Sun Rui Gao Hongxia Li Jie Zhou Xiaoxia, Liu Yali Fan Yunjie Midfielders Pan Lina Xie Caixia Pu Wei Zhao Lihong Bi Yan Forwards Bai Jie Sun Wen Meng Juan Ren Liping Bai Lili ----------------------------------------- Anyone know the reason why Gao Hong is not playing in this tourney? Is her wrist still bothering her?
Gao's wrist still bothers her and the Chinese would like to try out a younger keeper. The generation of the great players like Sun, Gao, and Liu won't be around forever. China is also showing signs of paying for overrelying on them with their loss to North Korea last year. I think the Chinese are looking at this tournament as a chance to look at some younger players in preparation for next year's World Cup.