The South Korean team participated in the World Cup for the 11th time, and the national football team only participated once! Tangled up in The 02 World Cup in South Korea is not necessary
News on Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Beijing time. Last night and this morning, China beat Vietnam 1-3, Japan beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 and South Korea beat Syria 2-0! The Japanese team is almost certain to reach the World Cup, while the South Korean team still scored the World Cup without Son Heung-min. And this is the 11th time that the South Korean men's football team has participated in the World Cup! The Chinese men's football team has only participated in 1 time so far!
Does Korean football have a black history? There are, for example, the 2002 local World Cup, all kinds of means, which are also disdained by fans. However, it should be noted that in addition to the South Korean team playing with the help of local advantages in 2002, the rest of the World Cup 10 times, all rely on their skills to play in! And the Chinese men's soccer team?
South Korea competed in the World Cup in 1954. Then the 1986 World Cup, that is, The Beginning of the World Cup in which Heo Dingmao swept Maradona, to the 2022 Qatar World Cup, a total of 10 times, the South Korean team has never been absent! This is a total of 11 World Cups. From Cha Fangen to Park Ji-sung to Son Heung-min, South Korean football has been emerging as first-class stars who can stand on world football, and in the World Cup, in addition to the fourth place in the 2002 World Cup, he also reached the round of 16 in 2010.
Japanese football, which started at the same time as Chinese football, underwent professional reforms almost at the same time, and suffered defeat in 1993. The national football team fell to Yemen, and Japan lost to Iraq. But then the 1998 World Cup began, and Japanese football shined, competing in the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 World Cups. It's also a matter of time before the 2022 World Cup qualifies!
Sun Jihai once said: Chinese may not be suitable for playing football, compared to Europeans and Americans we have a disadvantage. But at least, Chinese football should be on a par with neighboring Japan and South Korea. China's football population is much larger than theirs, almost all sports are doing very well, can surpass Japan, South Korea, but in the men's football team, it is worse and farther!
In 2023, that is, next year, the Chinese men's football team will debut in the local Asian Cup, fighting at the doorstep, Chinese football is not a question of whether it can drop the chain, but a problem of no more ugly!