Colin Bell heads to the Land of the Rising Sun in search of a first-ever World Cup quarterfinal. Bell, Park Eun-sun and Cho So-hyun are determined to win at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Australia-New Zealand.
The Korea Women’s National Team, led by head coach Colleen Bell, will depart for Australia on Tuesday at 8 p.m. via Incheon International Airport Terminal 1. After arriving at the airport at 4:50 p.m., the team took commemorative photos and interviews, and then entered the departure hall to cheers from fans.
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‘3rd World Cup’ Park Eun-sun “The World Cup is more exciting than nervous… We will give it our all to win.”
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“I feel more excited than nervous… I’m going to give it my all,” said ‘veteran’ Park Eun-sun in front of the press. “Every time I go to the World Cup, I’m more excited than nervous, and I still am,” said Park, who is playing in her third World Cup after competing in the United States in 2003 and Canada in 2015. My goal is to do my best and perform well without getting injured.”
Park Eun-sun, who is actually playing in her last World Cup, said, “I played in Canada in 2015 with the idea that it would be my last, but now I have the opportunity to play again. I will give it my all and aim to win.”
The team pulled off a thrilling 2-1 victory over Haiti at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Aug. 8 in their final official pre-World Cup trial and send-off match. After conceding an early goal to Haiti’s fierce offense, Korea came back to win the match with a penalty kick (PK) equalizer by Ji So-yeon and a fantastic mid-range goal by Jang Seul-ki. Belo Horizonte will depart for Australia on a high note with a victory over Haiti, the ‘virtual Colombia’.
Park Eun-sun said, “The mood has improved a lot (with the win against Haiti), and the fans have come to see us, so our morale is high. We will prepare well and reward them with good results when we arrive in Australia,” Park said.
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Cho So-hyun “Goals are important in the World Cup… I want to score goals and provide assists.”
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“I’m leaving the country for the first time in a long time in front of a lot of cameras and fans, so the World Cup feels real. I’m looking forward to it and excited.” “The most important thing is to win the first game against Colombia. We want to beat Colombia and go through the group stage.”
The national team is known as the Golden Generation, including standout Ji So-yeon and Europeans Cho So-hyun (Tottenham) and Lee Keum-min (Brighton). “We have European players in the national team, but we also have domestic players who have played a lot of A matches and have a lot of experience,” says Cho. I’m confident that if we prepare well together, we will have a good result.”
Cho wore the captain’s armband at the 2015 Canada and 2019 France tournaments. While Kim Hye-ri will be the captain of the team, Cho will also lead the juniors by example. “I’m not the captain this time, but I have experience and I’m older, so it’s important to lead the players well. 메이저사이트 With or without the armband, I will show and lead them well as a senior.”
When asked about her goals for the tournament, she said, “I hope we can go as high as we can go. These days, the national team is called the ‘golden generation,’ and I hope to get results that match that.” Cho scored a goal against Spain in the group stage of the 2015 World Cup in Canada to help South Korea women’s soccer reach the round of 16 for the first time ever.