The real reason for South Korea's Asian Cup exit was exposed, Son Heung-min wanted to quit, and Lee Gang-in apologized
As a traditional powerhouse in Asian football, the South Korean men's football team has won the Asian Cup twice, but since 1960, Korean football has not been involved in the Asian Cup, and if you carefully calculate, it has been 64 years.
In fact, in the Qatar Asian Cup, the South Koreans once saw the hope of ending the championship drought, and in this competition, the South Korean team eliminated the Saudi Arabian team and the Australian team one after another, and successfully reached the semifinals. And their opponent in the semifinals is the Jordan team, the dark horse that has reached the semifinals for the first time, whether it is on paper or historical records, the South Korean team must be in an absolute advantage, so countless fans believe before the game that the South Korean team should easily pass the test and reach the final of the Asian Cup again!
However, the result of the game was a big surprise, and the South Korean team lost 0-2 to the Jordanian team, which became the backdrop for the Jordanians to celebrate. After the game, everyone attributed the reason for the defeat of the South Korean team to head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, and many fans believed that it was the problem with his arrangement that led to the defeat of the South Korean team, and he should be fully responsible for this! However, not long ago, this matter ushered in a huge reversal, and it turned out that behind the South Korean team's exit, there was another hidden secret that no one knew.
According to the British "Sun" newspaper, before the game against the Jordan team, there was infighting in the South Korean team, and the team's two core players, Son Heung-min and Lee Gang-in, even had a big fight, and Son Heung-min also caused a dislocated finger, so he had to put a bandage on his finger when playing against the Jordan team. It was precisely because of the contradiction between the two cores that the South Korean team was finally defeated at the feet of the Jordanian team and unfortunately stopped in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup.
As soon as the news came out, it quickly aroused heated discussions among fans, and seeing that the paper could no longer contain the fire, the Korean Football Association had to admit that the team did break out infighting during the Asian Cup, and the object of the conflict was Son Heung-min and Li Gangren! Later, the South Korean media followed up and broke the news that after the conflict between the two broke out, Son Xingmin had asked head coach Klinsmann to exclude Li Gangren from the starting list, but the German coach did not adopt his idea, because Klinsmann has always been very important to Li Gangren, compared to Son Xingmin, the German coach seems to prefer the young Li Gangren!
I don't know if I saw the head coach's position, after the South Korean team was eliminated by the Jordan team, Son Xingmin said in an interview that perhaps Klinsmann will never call him up again, and he will rethink his future in the national team! These words did not cause much turmoil at the time, but after the scandal of infighting came out, Sun Xingmin's remarks were really understood by everyone, and it turned out that he was alluding to Klinsmann's fact that he had chosen the latter in the game between himself and Li Gangren, so he could only become an outcast.
Seeing that the matter was getting bigger and bigger, Li Gangren, one of the parties involved, couldn't sit still, and not long ago he publicly spoke out on social media and apologized to all fans. He also said that he would listen to his brothers in the future and would not behave out of line. However, throughout the whole text, Li Gangren did not admit his mistake to Sun Xingmin by name, obviously he was still very dissatisfied with the captain of the South Korean team.
I wonder where Korean football will go after this infighting?