For developing reasons, I always track the youth development in Asia and North America for those new comers. Can you give us a review of Korean U-19 teams? How many of them in PRO ranks and how many of them are starters in their first team? Also in US case, many of the members are actually U-18 due to their envolvement of U-17 two years ago. That happens in last US U-20 too. What is the situation in Korea?
I dont know about them much but I'll just list players I know. Players on abroad (I think they are all on youth team) Kwon, Jip (MF 18) FC Koeln(Germany) Youth 19. Lee, San (MF 17) Westham (England) Kim, Keun-Chul (MF 19) Jubilo Iwata (Japan) Lee, Ho (MF 18) Berona (Italy) Lee, Jin-Ho (FW 18) Berona Kim, Sung-Gil (MF 19) Oitta Trinata (Japan) Players on K-league pro team Kim, Young-Kwang (GK) ChunNam Kim, Yoo-Jin (DF 19) Suwon Samsung Lee, Jong-Min (MF 19) Suwon Samsung Choi, Sung-Guk (FW 19) Ulsan Hyundai Jung, Jo-Guk (FW 18) Anyang LG Kim, Chi-Gon (DF 19) Anyang LG I am not sure if they are in first squad or just youth team.
I still don't get why Keun-chul Kim(high school MVP last year playing at Jubilo of J-League) and San Lee(West Ham Utd) didn't get picked by the U-19 team. I don't get it.
At the youth level Korea is historically unmatched as this is their 10th Asian Victory. We've seen many Korean star players from this teenage championships but the problem would be that they dont go abroad to sharpen their skills. In that respect it is satisfying to see some of these teen players playing in Europe at an early age. However only a few of these players ever start for their respective clubs and some arent even professional yet. Compared to Japan, I believe most of these players play in the J.League and some who plays in the second division could possibly start. I cant give u details. This should be answersd by a Japanese poster. As with age, You have to consider that there are differences in how Americans call their age and how Koreans do it. If a Korean is 19, they are actaully 18 in U.S age so most of these players are 18 with some 17 year olds and the occasional 16 year olds.
That true by just calling age. But what I mean is that U-20 World Cup will be in 2003. So most of them may have players were born at year of 1983. In US case, Donovan and Beasley participated at U-17 at 1999 so they were 17 years old because they were born at 1982. But since they had a good team, so many of them made U-20 at 2001 when they were actually 19 instead of 20. Samething on this U-20 team. So if they are most of them 18 or 19 years old to compete with 20 years, that will improve their development. If you add some of conturies who sent faked overage players, that will make those youngsters even better in long run--because they may not win anything due to they are young. Anyway, I don't think that is a good idea to send young talented players to Europe. They should stay in the home and break into K-league. When they are matured enough to get a regular playing time then move to Europe.
hell no. If they even set a foot in college or pro team in Korea, most of em wont have a chance to play in europe. They should go abroad at any cost if they can. Only reason those young players could play abroad is that they were dropped out of school and didnt graduate high school. (If a male Korean graduate high school, he should fulfil military duty till he turns 30)
Kwon Jip and Kim Keun-Chul dont get along much. They were rivals since young and they both play same position. so coach had to pick 1 of em.