Japanese and Korean football, who is the "top flow" in Asia?

[Global Times Special Correspondent Madexing] This year is the 20th anniversary of the World Cup in Asia. It happens that the World Cup has returned to Asia again. South Korea and Japan's two national teams who co -host the World Cup will go to Qatar at the same time, and the "intervals of the air" between the Korean and Japanese teams are also being fully launched. On the 15th, in the U23 Asian Cup in Uzbekistan, the host Uzbekistan will face the Japanese team. As the defending champion, the South Korean team missed the semi -finals. It was the Japanese team that eliminated the South Korean team in the 1/4 final.

Three 3: 0

The U23 Asian Cup is different from that of the Korean team to participate in the 1999 age group. The Japanese side is composed of the 2001 age group. After the South Korean team lost to the Japanese team with 0: 3, South Korean domestic public opinion called this game as "the battle of shame" -Thien is the first time since its founding in the U23 Asian Cup. Can enter the semi -finals. South Korean coach Huang Shanhong apologized to South Korean fans after the game and expressed its responsibility.

A few days before the 1/4 final of the U23 Asian Cup, the Japanese Young Team in Japan in 2006 defeated the South Korean team of the same age in a friendly match on the 8th in a friendly match. In a national team in March last year, the Japanese team also defeated the South Korean team 3: 0. In addition, from May 30th to June 14th this year is the window period designated by FIFA. The national teams of South Korea and Japan are located in the town and arranged four warm -up competitions to practice in the Qatar World Cup. Coincidentally, the two teams invited almost the same opponent to confront each other: when the South Korean team led by Sun Xingzheng was defeated by Brazil 1: 5, the Japanese team defeated Paraguay 4: 1 at home; when the Japanese team 0: 0: 0: When 1 small negative Brazil, the South Korean team shook hands with the Paraguay team 2: 2. The South Korean team defeated the Chile 2: 0 since then, and the Chilean team then went to Japan to participate in the Kirin Cup and lost to Tunisia with 0: 2, and failed to enter the finals. After the Japanese team defeated Gana 4: 1, they fought with Tunisia on the 14th and finally lost their opponents at 0: 3. The South Korean team defeated the Egyptian team 4: 1 in the warm -up on the evening of the 14th.

World Cup goal: the top 8 and the top 16

Four years ago in the World Cup in Russia, the Japanese team was only 14 seconds from the quarterfinals, and was eventually reversed by the Belgian team 3: 2; the Qatar World Cup four years later, the Japanese team once again aimed at the Eight Spokekeeper. In contrast, the goal of the South Korean team is to strive to qualify for the group and enter the top 16. In order to achieve a breakthrough, the South Korean Football Association also issued a reward: players who were selected into the Qatar World Cup in the end can receive 20 million won (1,000 won, about 6 yuan) for selection awards; Han Yu; if you can enter the top 16, except for the group stage bonuses, each person can receive a bonus of 100 million won; if you enter the quarterfinals, each person can receive a bonus of 200 million won.

The reason why Japan proposed the top eight of the World Cup is due to the huge lineup of the "foreign" lineup in the team. Among the Japanese teams participating in the Top 12 of the World Championship, 167 overseas players who played in Europe have returned to the team to help out. The Japanese national team can even form a "European lineup" -the all 23 played in Europe. club. There are more than 30 Japanese players who have played in the first team of European Club. In this year's UEFA Champions League final, there are Japanese players such as Nangong Takashi in the Premier League Liverpool team; in the Frankfurt team who won the UEFA Cup championship, there are two Japanese players in Hasega and Kamita.

In contrast, seven or eight players in the South Korean team played in European clubs. Of course, "Asian Brother" Sun Xingzhang, as the first Asian player in the five major European league events in history, is also the pride of Korean football.

AFC Champions League

In the Qatar World Cup, the Japanese team will be in the same group with the two popular teams of the Spanish team and the German team. It will also make the outside world think that the Japanese team is difficult to qualify for the team. The South Korean team is in the same group with Uruguay, Ghana and Portugal.

In August of this year, the AFC Champions League East Asia will launch the knockout stage competition. The Japanese Football Association has proposed to apply for the purpose of making three Japanese clubs that break into the finals of the AFC Champions League, Yokohama Jourder, Puhe Red Diamonds and Kobe victory ships. In the competition between the two major clubs of South Korea, the Northern Modern and Daegu FC competition, it has the upper hand. It is worth mentioning that one of the reasons proposed in Japan is that when the 20th anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the opportunity has the opportunity to "relive history" again.

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