The South Koreans who "stepped on the Panda Cup" are going to play against the Chinese team again

At noon Beijing time yesterday, South Korea's Asian Games team coach Hwang Sun-hong announced a new 28-man training list. Since the team is about to play two warm-up matches with the Chinese Asian Games team on June 15 and 19, this list has also attracted the attention of many Chinese fans. Unlike the Chinese Asian Games team, which mainly formed players in the 1999-2000 age group, because it was tasked with training for the National Olympic Team, the South Korean Asian Games team recruited 12 players from the 2001-02 age group, including Park Guixian, who "stepped on the Panda Cup" four years ago.

Before the Panda Cup turmoil, Park Gyeong-hyun attracted the attention of the South Korean media for stripping and dancing after the K-League U18 Championship final.

Although most Chinese fans are not familiar with the name Park Guixian, the mention of the "foot trophy" incident 4 years ago is believed to be remembered by many people to this day. In the 2019 Panda Cup International Tournament in Chengdu, South Korea's U18 national youth team won the championship with 3-3 wins against teams of the same age from Thailand, New Zealand and China. However, surprisingly, after the award ceremony, the smugly Park Guixian stepped on the trophy under his feet and made a disdainful pose for his teammates to take pictures. The insulting and provocative gesture happened to be captured by a photojournalist and posted online, causing an uproar. Under the wave of denunciations from Chinese fans and event organizers, the Korean National Youth Team had to publicly apologize in the presence of the media, and the Korean Football Association also sent a letter of apology to the Chengdu City Football Association, the organizer of the event, and said that it would consider punishing the players involved. The team manager and leader also brought a number of involved players to bow to the organizing committee to apologize, and the trophy was also recovered by the event organizers, and the matter was closed.

Shortly after the Panda Cup, Park was loaned to Bremen's Under-19 team, where he now plays for Dresden Dynamo in the Bundesliga and has been bought out.

However, shortly after the trophy incident, Ulsan Hyundai, where Park is now located, loaned it to Bremen's U19 team. For this, Bremen also spent 75,000 euros on loan. In the 2019/20 season, the second and U19 teams of Te Bremen participated in the German Northern League and the Regional League respectively. After only three appearances in the second team, he won more appearances in the regional league. Although he suffered from injuries in the middle of the season, he will continue to be a regular in most Under-19 games and has shown strong positional adaptability in various positions such as left-back, central defender and right-back. The following 2020/21 season, Park was officially promoted to Bremen's second team. Although he only made 8 appearances for the team that season, he started all 8 games and played all 6 games. Until the end of the season, Bremen completed his official transfer for 250,000 euros.

Park Guixian has a career resume in recent years

In the 2021/22 season, although he was included in the team's first-team squad 12 times, Park has never been given the opportunity to play in the Bundesliga, and more often he still starts for the second team. After a tepid year, Bremen loaned him to Dresden Dynamo last summer. At Dynamo Dresden this season, Park has been named in the league squad 27 times, 14 of which have been started, mainly as a left-back and left-back, and also contributed one assist early in the season. Despite injuries, he has not made many appearances at the club, but this does not prevent Dynamo Dresden from activating his €150,000 buyout clause and will now be officially part of the team from next season.

In addition to recruiting Park Gyeong-hyun, Hwang Sun-hong selected Jung Youying and Song Min-kyu, two players who had participated in the Qatar World Cup, after negotiations with national team coach Jurkinsmann. As the main player of Freiburg im Breisgau in the Bundesliga, Zheng Youying has a starting record in the 2022 World Cup; Although Song Min Kui traveled to Qatar with the team, he did not get a chance to play, but he did have a record in last year's East Asian Cup match with China. Meanwhile, the South Korean Asian Games team also includes six runners-up at the 2019 U20 World Cup in Poland, and is also named to this year's K-League forward Chion Sung-hyun. This means that although the average age of this Korean team is younger than that of the Chinese Asian Games team, its strength cannot be underestimated.

These two warm-up matches also received the title of "Jinhua Ham"

Park Guixian's selection gives the two upcoming warm-up matches a taste of "revenge", after all, there are still national youth players like Tao Qianglong who participated in the Panda Cup in this Asian Games team. Of course, compared with "revenge", this warm-up can also give all walks of life a general judgment on the prospects of this Asian Games team. Although the number of teams registered for the Asian Games has not yet been determined, and the group draw has not been carried out, because the men's football competition of the Asian Games is scheduled to be played during non-international breaks, it is difficult for most participating countries to form a pure U24 Asian Games team, and more participating teams will use players of 2001 age group, that is, players of the appropriate age for the Paris Olympic Games, and even the recruitment of Olympic age players has certain difficulties, and can only send younger teams to participate. From the information available so far, only China and South Korea have set up Asian Games teams, in other words, this South Korean Asian Games team is likely to become the strongest opponent of the Chinese Asian Games team in the future.