The midfielder of Majorca Kang-in Lee is the main novelty in the list of 26 summoned by the South Korean coach, Paul Bentofor friendly matches against the Asian team Costa Rica Y Cameroon on September 23 and 27 in preparation for world which starts in November.
read21 years old and played six times with his national team, was not called up by bento since March 2021, and many eyes are watching after the South Korean’s good start to this new season in the Spanish league.
After five games, the Majorcan player is the leading assister in the championship with three assists tied with the Portuguese joao felix of Atlético de Madrid and also added two goals.
Due to his absence in the final calls, the Portuguese coach argued that he had a plot of the field that was crowded and that he had more versatile players than readwho he considers a player who still needs to work more on the defensive aspects of the game.
Beside read there is only one more novelty in the call; the midfielder Yang Hyun Joon of Gangwon FCwho, at the age of 20, is not yet called a full South Korean.
Along with them, came the hard core of the “Taeguk warriors”, starting with the captain and team leader, Son Heung Minof Tottenham Hotspurthe central Kim Min Jae just moved to Naples, the midfielder Jung Woo-young of Qatari Al-Sadd or the attackers Hwang Hee-chang (Wolverhampton) and Hwang Ui-jo, who arrived at Olympiakos this season.
South Korea it plays on September 23 against Costa Rica in Goyang (northeast of Seoul) and against Cameroon on September 27 at the World Cup Stadium in the South Korean capital.
Naa Qatar World Cup, which starts on November 20, South Korea is in group H with Portugal, Ghana and Uruguay, while Costa Rica plays in group E with Spain, Germany and Japan and Cameroon in group G with Brazil, Serbia and Switzerland.
Here is the list of 26 summonses released today by the Korea Football Association (KFA):
Goalkeepers: Kim Seung-gyu (Al-Shabab), Jo Hyun-woo (Ulsan), and Song Bum-keun (Jeonbuk).
Defenses: Kim Min-jae (Naples), Kim Young-gwon and Kim Tae-hwan (Ulsan), Kwon Kyung-won (Gamba Osaka), Cho Yu-min (Daejeon Hana Citizen), Kim Moon-hwan and Kim Jin-su ( Jeonbuk), Yoon Jong-gyu (FC Seoul) and Hong Chul (Daegu).
Midfielders: Jung Woo-young (Al Sadd), Paik Seung-ho (Jeonbuk), Son Jun-ho (Shandong Taishan), Hwang In-Beom (Olympiakos), Lee Jae-Sung (Mainz), Kwon Chang-hoon (Gimcheon Sangmu) Jeong Woo-Yeong (Freiburg), Lee Kang-in (Mallorca), Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), Na Sang-ho (FC Seoul) and Yang Hyun-jun (Gangwon FC).
Forward: Hwang Ui-jo (Olympiakos) and Cho Gue-sung (Jeonbuk).
Source: La Verdad
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