Legendary Nagatomo's direct junior Baek In-hwan and next Hwang In-beom Nori were selected as Hwang Seung-ho's new face...U20 World Cup: Deciding Jade Stone, Recall Training on the 19th
May 13, 2025
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Three European players, striker Kim Tae-won (Portimonense), winger Hwang Gun-sung (Chávez), and midfielder Hwang Seung-ho (Perl), were among the 28 training members announced by coach Lee on the 12th. Fullback Lee Kyung-hyun (Suwon Technical High School) and midfielder Bae Seung-kyun (Boyego), who are the 'high school duo', are expected to move to Copenhagen and Feyenoord respectively this summer. Striker Han Seok-jin (Yeongsaeng High School) is a semi-professional player in Jeonbuk.
The new face stands out. Left-back Baek In-hwan (Tokyo) joined the national team as the only J-League player. Baek In-hwan is from Boyn Middle School and Cheonan Jeil High School and joined J-League club Tokyo last year. In the same year, Tsu returned to Tokyo again this year after experiencing a loan in Kanazawa.
In Tokyo, Yuto Nagatomo, Japan's best left-back of all time, and Japan's rising full-back Bangnagande Kashif Bangnagande are in charge of the 1st and 2nd rolls, so it is not easy to compete for the starting lineup right away, but he is building local adaptability and competitiveness as a full-back with Nagatomo's advice at the training site.
Baek In-hwan, who made his U-20 national team debut through the EOU Cup in Seoul in 2023, took another opportunity in a year and seven months. Baek In-hwan is an aggressive left-footed left-back whose strength is overlapping and crossing.
Defensive midfielder Hwang Seung-ho, who has a strong tendency to stay at home, grew up in Pohang Steel Middle School and Boin High School and moved to Germany's third-tier Ferle in January this year to play in Europe. A national team midfielder Hwang In-beom (Feyenoord) and Japanese national team captain Endo Wataru (Liverpool) are used as role models. Full-back and defensive midfielders are positions that Korean soccer is worried about and worried about.
In addition, Hong Sung-min, Baek Seung-won (Pohang), Kim Hyun-min, Baek Ga-on (Busan), Jin Joon-seo (Gangwon), Bae Hyun-seo, Yoon Ki-wook (Seoul), Gong Si-hyun (Jeonbuk), Cho Hyun-woo (Daejeon), Lee Ye-chan (Bucheon), and Choi Seung-gu and Baek Min-gyu (Incheon) were listed on the training list.
Lee Chang-won, who reached the semifinals at the U-20 Asian Cup in China in February and won a ticket to the World Cup finals, will begin to split the two stones through four days of domestic convocation training. Lee plans to set up a list of U-20 warm-up matches to be held in Cairo, Egypt in June, including Yoon Do-young (Daejeon), Shin Min-ha (Gangwon) and Park Seung-soo (Suwon), who failed to join the team due to circumstances. Korea will depart Korea on June 2 and play Norway on June 6 and Brazil on June 10.
The U-20 World Cup will be held in Chile from Sept. 27 to Oct. 19. The Chilean competition, which will involve 24 teams, will be drawn in the group stage at the end of June. In Asia, Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Australia will participate.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
