Still riding high after Wednesday’s Taeguk Warrior win over Greece, we go right into action with today marking the start of the K-League Classic season. But first to Europe with Korean Footballers Abroad:
All times are in US EST / TV in US – Sunday marks Daylight Savings – we lose an hour
| Day | Time (ET) | Player | Club | Opponent | TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday | 9:30 AM | Hong Jeong Ho | Augsburg | Gladbach | None |
| Saturday | 9:30 AM | Ji Dong Won | Augsburg | Gladbach | None |
| Saturday | 9:30 AM | Son Heung Min | Bayer Leverkusen | Hannover 96 | None |
| Saturday | 10:00 AM | Lee Chung Yong | Bolton | Leeds United | None |
| Saturday | 10:00 AM | Kim Bo Kyung | Cardiff City | Fulham | NBC Extra Time |
| Saturday | 2:45 PM | Park Ji Sung | PSV Eindhoven | FC Utrecht | GolTV |
| Sunday | 10:00 AM | Ki Sung Yueng | Sunderland | Hull City (Cup) | Fox Soccer Plus |
| Sunday | 12:30 PM | Koo Ja Cheol | Mainz | Hertha Berlin | GolTV |
| Sunday | 12:30 PM | Park Joo Ho | Mainz | Hertha Berlin | GolTV |
| Off | n/a | Park Chu Young | Watford | None |
There is always the question whether some of these players will see time on pitch after a midweek International friendly, but because of a relatively short plane ride from Athens, it’s not out of the question.
Note: Watford rests this weekend and will play midweek instead – March 11 at Doncaster.
Looking over to Korea, Jae and his crew are headed to see IPark Busan start their season at Jeonbuk (see his preview of the match here). You can follow his exploits at supporting IPark at busanipark.wordpress.com and at his twitter handle @BusanIParkEng .
I’m looking at Soccerway where they got K-League Classic schedule (times translated in US EST military time)
and did you see who’s playing Sunday? None other than the first team ever to be promoted into the K-League’s top flight, it’s Lee Keun-Ho and Sangju Sagmnu (otherwise known as that Army team). Jae is apparently fabulous at mulit-tasking – check out his preview of Sangju Sangmu’s season at the sparkling-new kleaguefootball.com –do they have what it takes to stay up this season?
And the Tavern writers had fun hanging out at the Tavern Google Hangout Live event earlier today. It has some technical glitches (through no fault of our own) – but if you can wade through some of that – Jinseok Yang – [who looked BOSS in his KNT jersey!] hosted a lively discussion concerning Korea’s win on Wednesday. And believe me you, there will continue to be reverberations that will resonate long after the Koreans leave Athens – wide implications that will factor how they will fare in Brazil for the World Cup. And Park Chu-Young scoring? Holy F#ck – what relief! The missing link and the way out of our long standing striker problems. And if anything else- Jae’s super cute baby daughter had a guest appearance near the end [fast forward to 1hr 9 min 22 sec to see Jae’s egie!]
Robbie Mustoe of NBC’s Premier League made an interesting comment after the Tottenham Chelsea match and that was that while most teams today concentrate most on possession football, Mourinho’s genius is directly opposite and thats to wait for teams who favor this tactic to make mistakes and pounce and capitalize on them.
It made me think how awesome would it be if Josie ever managed KNT. We score the majority of our goals on set pieces and counterattacks Sounds like Korea’s real style to me. Its a pipe dream of course but I would love to see what he’d come up with as Im sure many would too. Anywayz
I thought Korea plays more like a possession football type of style?
yea, that’s hong’s style. but, you also have to remember that personnel matters just as much. if you think about the KNT, it is really the first time in its history that it could try to play possession style, and that’s because it’s the most talented they’ve ever been at midfield. hiddink in 2002 employed the counterattack style. while korea is possession based, they still aren’t completely that either. jae sort of touched on it when he talked about tactics last week. korea against more talented teams that play possession style would be unable to completely play their own game if they did that. so they’d have to adjust to make up for that.
If you honestly evaluate it, even though we’ve shown massive improvement lately…we still aren’t good enough to be relying on a passing possession game.
Mourinho was probably shrewd enough to understand the statistics of being able to carry out such an offense and only the best teams can honestly pull it off (i.e., Barca).
The others to him anyway are cannon fodder and he’s perfectly happy waiting and getting a mistake from the other side to pounce on.
Genius.
merely a suggestion that Hong may be also better served by appealing to his inner Sun Tsu as well
also this:
http://talksport.com/football/poyet-vows-rid-sunderland-weak-players-14030982800
Im glad Ki wasn’t on the pitch…these games have the tendency to make everyone look bad. And Im not sure why he’s so pissed…he tried to go into QF for the cup with a B team. Not sure what he was thnking.
maybe there wasn’t much hustle?