Son Heung-min's teacher Pochettino and Hong Myung-bo confirmed a friendly match between the U.S. and Mexico in September...a warm-up match for the first time in a year
May 14, 2025
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Team A will play a warm-up match against the United States at 6 a.m. on September 7 at Red Bull Arena in New Jersey. He will then play his second match against Mexico on the 9th. The location and kick-off time against Mexico will be confirmed later.
It is the first time in a year that the national team will play an overseas warm-up match against Wales and Saudi Arabia in September last year. The U.S. is led by Mauricio Pochettino, who led Tottenham. Son Heung-min was recruited when he was the head coach of Tottenham. Son will face Pochettino for the first time in the national team.
It is the first face-off against the U.S. in 11 years since the warm-up match in LA in February 2014. The U.S. FIFA ranking is 16th, higher than South Korea, which is 23rd, but South Korea is leading the past with five wins, three draws and three losses.
It has been five years since the warm-up match in Viner Neustat, Austria, in November 2020 that they will face Mexico, ranked 17th in FIFA rankings. The opponent's record is inferior with four wins, two draws and eight losses. In particular, he met Mexico twice and lost both times in the World Cup finals (1998 and 2018), drawing attention to whether he can avenge his death through this warm-up match.
Meanwhile, coach Hong Myung-bo will announce the list of national teams to join the final two matches of the third round of the North Korea-China World Cup and the match against Iraq and Kuwait at the Shinmun-ro Football Center in Seoul on the 26th.
Game 9 of the 3rd World Cup qualifying round against Iraq will be played in an away match in Iraq on the 6th of next month and will face Kuwait in Korea on the 10th.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
