2024-04-27 00:16:49
As South Korea was eliminated from the Asian regional qualifiers for men’s soccer at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Spain was the only country to win a ticket to Paris among the countries that won medals in the last three competitions.
The Korean under-23 soccer team, led by coach Hwang Seon-hong, was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Indonesia at the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Asian Cup held in Doha, Qatar on the 26th (Korean time).
Korea was tied 2-2 for 120 minutes, including overtime, and lost 10PSO11 in the ensuing penalty shootout.
There are 3.5 tickets to Paris at stake in this tournament, which also serves as the final qualifier for the Olympic Asia region. We need to get to the semifinals at least. In the end, Korea was eliminated in the quarterfinals, confirming its failure to advance to the Olympic finals.
It has been 40 years since the 1984 Los Angeles (LA) Games that Korea failed to advance to the Olympic men’s soccer finals. From the 1988 Seoul Games to the 2020 Tokyo Games, Korea achieved the feat of advancing to the finals of the Olympic Games a record 9 times in a row, but that record was broken.
In the Olympics held in Paris again for the first time in 100 years, powerhouses from each continent other than Korea will not participate due to ‘lack of skills’.
Brazil, which recently won the most medals in men’s soccer with 7 medals, including wins in two consecutive competitions, was behind Argentina and Paraguay in the South American preliminary round. This is the first time in 20 years since the 2004 Athens Games that men’s soccer has been held at the Olympics without Brazil.
In addition, Mexico in North and Central America and Nigeria in Africa, which achieved significant results at the Olympics, also failed to pass the regional preliminary round.
In the last three Olympics, including London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016, and Tokyo 2020, six countries including Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Nigeria, and Spain took men’s soccer medals. Korea won its first ever medal by defeating Japan 2-0 in the bronze medal match at the London Games.
However, among these six countries, only Spain qualified for the Paris Games. Spain finished second in the 2023 UEFA U21 Championship and successfully advanced to the Olympic finals.
Meanwhile, the men’s soccer competition at the Paris Olympics, in which 16 countries will participate, will be held from July 25 to August 10.
Twelve countries, including the host country France, Spain, Israel, Ukraine, Argentina, Paraguay, Morocco, Egypt, Mali, the United States, the Dominican Republic, and New Zealand, confirmed their advancement to the finals.
◇ Record of winning in three recent Olympic Games
London 2012: Gold – Mexico, Silver – Brazil, Bronze – Korea
Rio 2016: Gold Medal – Brazil, Silver Medal – Germany, Bronze Medal – Nigeria
Tokyo 2020: Gold Medal – Brazil, Silver Medal – Spain, Bronze Medal – Mexico
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2024-04-27 00:16:49