Ji So-yeon, Jang Seul-gi, Lee Geum-min, Kim Hyeri, all the best members! I'm going to avenge the war between Korea and Japan
Jul 13, 2025
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Shin Sang-woo presented the best member in the second game against Japan in the 2025 East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Championship (East Asian Cup) 'Refugee' at Hwaseong Sports Town at 8 p.m. on the 13th.
While Kim Min-jung (Incheon Hyundai Steel) is wearing goalie gloves, Noh Jin-young (Mungyeong Sangmu), Ko Yu-jin (Incheon Hyundai Steel), Jang Seul-ki (Gyeongju KHNP), and Kim Hye-ri (Wuhan Zinda) will be on the defense line, while Kang Chae-rim (Suwon FC Women), Moon Eun-joo (Hwacheon KSPO), Lee Geum-min (Birmingham City), Minyoung Jung (Seoul City Hall), Ji So-yeon (Seattle Lane FC), and Kim Min-ji (Seoul City Hall) will be on the offensive line.
Japan won a 4-0 victory over Taiwan in its first match on the 9th 'FIFA 42nd'. On the same day, Shin Sang-woo drew 2-2 with Jang Seul-ki's equalizer and Ji So-yeon's theater goal in his first game against China.
It is a match between Korea and Japan that requires rock-paper-scissors, but the gap between Korea and Japan is wide recently. Japan, led by head coach Nils Nilsen, ranks seventh in the FIFA rankings, and South Korea, led by head coach Shin Sang-woo, ranks 21st in the FIFA rankings. Japan, which won the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany and the runner-up at the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada, reached the round of 16 at the 2019 World Cup in France and the quarterfinals at the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, and also reached the quarterfinals in succession at the 2012 London Games, Tokyo in 2021, and Paris in 2024 on the Olympic stage, which South Korea has never stepped on. Following the women's Asian Cup consecutive wins in 2014 and 2018, the East Asian Cup is also trying to win three consecutive titles following 2019 and 2022. Korea and Japan have won four games, 11 draws and 19 losses. It has been winless (three draws and five losses) for nearly 10 years since the 2-1 victory at the East Asian Cup in August 2015. In the 2022 East Asian Cup, Ji So-yeon scored an equalizer and lost 1-2. Immediately after Shin Sang-woo's appointment, he was defeated 0-4 in his debut match in Japan on October 26 last year.
Attention is focusing on how different he will be in the domestic return match in nine months and the match between Korea and Japan. Japan, which is not obligated to play overseas, has filled all of its WE League members except for goalkeeper Hirao Shika (Granada, Spain), defender Ishikawa Leone, midfielder Kitamura Miu (Sweden Rinsheping), striker Haruka Osawa (Sutgart, Germany) and four overseas players. It has set up a domestic-oriented list for summer pre-season, individual schedules, and generational change.
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▶GK = Kim Min-jeong (Incheon Hyundai Steel), Ryu Ji-soo (Sejong Sports Toto), Woo Seo-bin (Seoul Metropolitan Government)
▶DF = Koo Chae-hyun (Changnyeong WFC), Ko Yu-jin (Incheon Hyundai Steel), Jang Seul-ki (Gyeongju KHNP), Kim Mi-yeon (Seoul Metropolitan Government), Kim Hye-ri (Wuhan Zinda), Noh Jin-young (Mungyeong Managing Director), Choo Hyo-joo (Otawa Lapid FC), Kim Yu-ri, Maeng Da-hee, and Lee Min-hwa (Hwacheon KSPO)
▶MF = Kang Chae-rim (Suwon FC Women), Kim Shin-ji (AS Roma), Moon Eun-joo (Hwacheon KSPO), Lee Geum-min (Birmingham City), Minyoung Jung (Seoul City Hall), Ji So-yeon (Seattle Lane FC), Kim Min-ji (Seoul City Hall), Lee Eun-young (Changnyeong WFC)
▶FW = Jung Da-bin (Korea University), Casey (Angel City FC, USA), Hyun Seul-ki (Gyeongju KHNP), Jeon Yoo-kyung (MoldeFK, injury call-off against Norway and China)
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
