South Korea women's soccer team
Target World Cup Round of 4
After the Chinese women's football team regained the Asian Cup after 16 years, with the loss of time, the women's football team seems to be fading out of people's sight. The South Korean women's football team, which lost to the Chinese women's football team in the final of the Asian Cup, has planned the next development plan and goals after painful thinking, and coach Bale even clearly put forward the grand goal of "reaching the top four in the 2023 Women's World Cup" on International Women's Day on March 8!
On March 8, the AFC organized various women's football activities organized by its member associations to celebrate the holiday, and the Korean Football Association (KFA) and the Korea Women's Football Professional League (WK-League) jointly organized a women's football work seminar at the Sinmun-ro Football Center in Seoul, which was attended by the head coaches of the Korean women's professional football team. At the meeting, the women's football revival project working group under the Korean Football Association first reviewed the performance of the Korean women's football team at the 2022 Asian Cup in India, and then conducted a comprehensive discussion on the development direction of the Korean women's professional football league in 2022.
As the first foreign coach of the law enforcement national team in the history of South Korean women's football, Bell has made obvious progress in leading the Korean women's national team since taking office in October 2019, and has just completed the renewal of his contract with the Korean Football Association until the end of the 2023 Women's World Cup. Bale is the first foreign coach in the history of the Korean national team (both men and women) to renew his contract with the FA after the expiration of his contract, which also confirms the recognition of Bale by the Korean Football Association and women's football. The Korean Football Association organizes women's football seminars, and Bale is of course one of the protagonists who cannot be absent. At the seminar, Bell and the Korean women's football coaches reviewed the whole process, training and competition of the Korean women's football team to prepare for the Asian Cup, especially for the quarter-final against Australia and the two games lost to the Chinese team in the final, conducted a comprehensive analysis and evaluation, and elaborated on the success factors, what aspects to improve, and the vision and perspective required for the next development of the Korean women's football team.
Bell stressed: "The runner-up of the Asian Cup and the entry into the World Cup are the common achievements of everyone here. When he talked to the coach of the Korean women's professional football team about his football philosophy, he said that he hoped that the head coaches of the Korean women's professional football team could adopt a more positive playing style, strive to control the game, and shape the belief in victory with a more passionate attitude and a more positive attitude. For the next Korean women's football team's playing style, Bell emphasized high-intensity, more active and more aggressive playing style, more high pressure, and hoped to play football based on basic principles rather than formations.
With less than 500 days to go before the Women's World Cup, Bell said in an interview with South Korean media reporters after the seminar that the goal of the South Korean women's football team to compete in the 2023 World Cup is to enter the semi-finals. Historically, the best result of the South Korean women's football team in the World Cup was to reach the round of 16 at the 2015 World Cup in Canada, and next year is also the third consecutive world cup for the South Korean women's football team. As for how to achieve such a goal, Bell said, "In the coming time, we will try to improve our ability, especially in the face of crisis situations to try to adapt and regain control of the game." ”
In the face of the aggressive momentum of the South Korean women's football team, how will the Chinese women's football team respond next? We can only wait and see.
