Good run by Korea this tourney. The story is imbalance between good fluid MF and attack and wretched def. U may share your thoughts, frustrations and hopes for future.
We need a new coach who knows what he's doing and uses his substitutes. Huh brings in guys like Ahn and LSR and does not even use them once? ********ing useless coach. Ahn or even LSR i knew would of buried that chance.
We have a lot of attacking talent... But our defense let us down. 8 goals conceded is 6 more than what we had conceded at this stage of 2002. I really hope we get a foreign coach for 2014. Huh doesn't know enough about foreign tactics and lacks balls.
Please PLEASE PLEASE, NO Kim Jung Woo, Yeom Ki Hun, Jung Sung Ryung, Cho Hyung Yong ,Oh Beom Suk, and No Yeom Ki Hun in the next world cup. Please find some better talent by then Please!
I always felt like 2010 was going to be a warm-up exercise to 2014. Making it to the 2nd round was crucial in order to get that monkey off our back, but anything more would've been a bonus. We technically have some of our key players in European leagues, but LCY has only played one year in the EPL. Ki Sung Yong is on the Celtic bench. PJY is just realizing his potential in a third-tier league. Give them four years to develop, and they just might become world-class players. I love Park Ji Sung, but he is a great utility player and nothing more. He is not skilled or brash enough to be a central playmaker, and he's not a dangerous scorer. He runs like hell, but he lacks the final quality to turn those runs into good chances either for himself or others. When he's the most famous and pivotal player on your national team, that's a team that can be improved. Our back five (defence + goalkeeper) simply has to be better. I hate to say it, but Jung Sung Ryong was barely adequate. The fact that Huh stuck with Lee Woon Jae in the qualifying phase but surprisingly dropped him right before the World Cup tells me that there was something very shaky about LWJ as well. There was no clear solution in goal, and JSR was the best we had. The first Suarez goal shouldn't have happened: he either should've reached the cross with his hands, or let the cross go and try to save Suarez's shot. He did neither, and gifted Uruguay a free goal. I hope we can launch a few Korean defenders into European leagues, because I don't think a J-League/K-League defence is going to cut it any more. They just lack experience. And I'm sure that Kim Jung Woo played as best as he could, but dear god, the fact that he was irreplaceable just showed that Korea still has a long way to go. Too many slide tackles that took himself out of position. Way too many giveaways. Too many wild shots. He was just an unsettling presence. With our U-20 showing promise, I'm so looking forward to 2014. By then, our current Euro-based players will hopefully have become legit stars, and the U-20 guys will take their place as the young guns. We'll have a more established and confident defence + gk, and a better coach. Great run in 2010. All the commentators had nothing but praise for the Koreans. Steve McManaman even said that we outplayed the Uruguayans. I think Asian football won a newfound respect in South Africa, so let's build on it.
I think most people would agree we need a better finisher. I have my hopes up for a new-improved Lee Keun Ho and also Shin Young Rok to show some prominence (I heard he's VERY reliable when it comes to finishing). We need better defenders but I don't see how we can produce any other than by relying on pure individual skill and hope somebody reliable shows up (e.g. Lee Young Pyo, Choi Jin Cheul, Hong Myung Bo, etc) Very good run. Bittersweet. Achieved our goal, had our expectations up but got bitterly taken down in the end. It was very much a winnable game rather than a completely dominant Uruguayan side. I was personally hoping we'd somehow beat Uruguay, take on the US, and make it to the semis, guess my prediction was wrong :/ Hope LCY/PCY gets scouted to better teams. LCY had a wonderful performance (though I couldn't bear to watch his pass to the goalkeeper today) and PCY was arguable as well.
At this stage I'm actually very worried about our future. Park Ji Sung, Lee Young Pyo, and Cha Du Ri will be gone with no one to replace them. They have so much experience playing with the big guns while our other players have to compete with scrawny Koreans.
I completely agree. What's the point of bringing strikers you won't use? There was no reason for Yeom and LDG to be the only strikers used other than PCY. Not bringing in an experienced goalscorer like Ahn or a pacy forward like LSR near the end of a close game, which is a perfect situation for a supersub, makes me think there was no conceivable situation where they would be used. And as it stands, the abysmal performance of this WC's strikers other than PCY have outdone 2006's strikers. 2010 Yeom was worse than 2006 JJJ, IMO.
We need to develop our back and keeper.. do we really have no one better than JSR back there?? Hes by far the worst keeper I ever seen..
Kim Yong Dae... Kwon Sun Tae... keepers who would of saved that and SHOULD of been on the team. Huh jung moo = retard
I am tired of hearing cho yong hyung is 2nd hong myung bo I was watching espn with korean radio on and every time cho yong hyung touched the ball they say 2nd hong 2nd hong 2nd hong.....I really wish we could of tried kim hyung il lee jung soo combo
no Cho is fine. what screwed us from the get go was losing Kwak. we hadnt conceded until we lost him.
exactly, 2010 is just a new beginning and now we just need to start from there so that we can be the next world powerhouse in the future.
Give it about decade. We have our first batch of kids professionally trained by position. The K-League's youth system will start churning them out slowly and surely. Currently, defense is played by forwards who couldn't make it after middle school. It's no suprirse that a good number of our current starting defenders were forwards up until highschool. It's actually a production miracle for us to consitently produce talent like Lee Young-pyo.
Consistantly produce 'Lee Youngpyo's'? What have you been watching? He's our best defender in the last two decades. Lee Youngpyo > Hong Myungbo, Kim Taeyoung, Choi Jinchul, and etc. Come Lee Youngpyo's retirement, KFA needs to sign him to an un-termit-able contract for twenty years.
Desperately need a coach that can make quick and smart tactical decisions during the game. Kim Jung-Woo and Kang Min-Soo = never be called to 23,26,30 man roster ever again. maybe Lee Dong-Gook should be called up to the 2011 Asian Nations Cup?^^;
It is a great thing that Korea and Japan has so many players that plays "at home" but it would be even better if many of them go to Europe. I don't like Jung-woo but I have a feeling he will go to Europe. Biggest dissapointment in this tournament was keeper Jung. Shaky guy. And Yeom, and Huh.