The Football Association bowed its head, “Failure to qualify for the Olympics, deep apology… “I will not repeat failure.”

2024-04-26 13:23:08

Chung Mong-gyu, president of the Korea Football Association, is entering the Football Center in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 16th to make an announcement regarding the future of national soccer team coach Jurgen Klinsmann. This morning, the Football Association held an executive meeting and discussed pending issues related to the national team, including the National Team Power Strengthening Committee’s recommendation to dismiss coach Jurgen Klinsmann. 2024.2.16/News1 ⓒ News1

The Korea Football Association (KFA) apologized on the 26th for failing to advance to the Olympic finals. He then pledged not to repeat this failure.

The Korean U23 national soccer team, led by coach Hwang Seon-hong, suffered a shock defeat by 10PSO11 in the penalty shootout following a 2-2 draw with Indonesia in the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Asian Cup held at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar on this day. did.

With this loss, Korea failed to obtain the 3.5 tickets to the Olympic finals for this tournament and was unable to advance to the finals for the 10th time in a row. Previously, Korean soccer had always participated in the Olympics since the 1988 Seoul Games.

The fans’ anger boiled over the helpless defeat and bitter result. There were 16,000 comments expressing disappointment and dissatisfaction on KFA’s SNS post, and there were also loud voices in the community concerned about the decline of Korean soccer.

In response, KFA bowed its head and issued an apology on its website on the 26th.

KFA said, “We would like to express our deepest apologies to soccer fans, soccer players, and the public for the failure to advance to the Paris Olympics finals due to the loss in the quarterfinals of the U23 Asian Cup,” adding, “We at KFA, which nurtures and supports the national soccer team, have overall responsibility.” “I know very well that it is, so I bow my head once again and apologize.”

KFA said, “We will closely review the player and leader training and national team management system in the future and find ways to improve so that failures like today are no longer repeated.”

Meanwhile, Korean soccer will continue through the 2026 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers in June. There are still tasks remaining for KFA, including the appointment of the head coach of the A national team, which is still vacant.

KFA pledged, “We will do our best to successfully complete the immediate task of appointing a national team coach and bring joy to the people with good games in the following World Cup Asian qualifiers.”

(Seoul = News 1)

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2024-04-26 13:23:08