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| The Seoul National University soccer team, led by Lee Yong-ho (professor of the department of physical education at Seoul National University, left end of the back row) and coach Oh Ji-woon (right end of the back row), made its first-ever runner-up history at the 2025 World prestigious university soccer tournament in Xi'an, China. Photo courtesy = Seoul National University's soccer team. |
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| photo courtesy of Seoul National University's soccer team. |
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Seoul National University's football team has written its first-ever runner-up history at the World Elite University Football Tournament 2025 in Xi'an, China.
Seoul National University's soccer team, led by head coach Oh Ji-woon, won the runner-up trophy at 2-4 after a 0-0 draw with Tsinghua University in China in the final of the world's top eight prestigious soccer tournament in 2025 at Pengdong Football Park in Xi'an, China, at 6 p.m. on the 25th (local time).
The competition, which lasted for a week from the 19th to the 25th, was organized by Tsinghua University in China, Peking University, Xian Transportation University, Oxford University in England, Cambridge University in the Netherlands, Leiden University in the Netherlands, and Singapore National University. Founded in 2016 by Tsinghua University in China, Seoul National University's all-time best performance was third at the Wuhan Games, which was first played in 2017.
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| Seoul National University VS Leiden University in the Netherlands. |
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| SNU vs Cambridge University in the semifinals. Seoul National University won the penalty shootout and reached the final. Photo courtesy = Seoul National University's soccer team. |
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The Seoul National University soccer team was founded in 1946 and has been participating in the U League since 2009, and has been playing in the U League 28 area this year. Unlike the college soccer department, which is mostly made up of specialized sports students, the Seoul National University soccer department is mostly amateur students majoring in physical education. Seoul National University aimed to advance to the semifinals in this competition, where prominent European teams participate, but wrote the history of runner-up with his unbeatable mental and strong physical strength amid a heat wave of 40 degrees Celsius. After a 2-2 draw with Leiden University in the Netherlands in the group stage, they beat Oxford University 3-2 to reach the semifinals, and after a 2-2 draw with Cambridge University, they won the penalty shootout 4-2 to reach the final.
Lee Yong-ho (a professor of physical education at Seoul National University), a senior soccer professor at Seoul National University who served as the head of the team, expressed his satisfaction at his students' first runner-up victory. Professor Lee said, `Even with a very tight schedule of five games in seven days in hot weather, our students did their best and tirelessly fought so well against European strong teamsThe Oxford and Cambridge universities of England, in particular, were excellent, but they were able to make up for their lack of individual skills with the concentration of our students, including captain Noh Seung-ik, outstanding tactics of coach Oh Ji-woon, and strong teamwork"The secret to winning the runner-up prize." Professor Lee then smiled, saying, `This competition will come as a great motivation for what our students do in the future.' `More than anything, I am proud to show on the international stage that Seoul National University is not a school that is only good at studying, but a school that is also good at sports.' Professor Lee said, `While the Seoul National University baseball team has been in the spotlight of the media and the public, there has been relatively little interest in the Seoul National University football team. Seoul National University's soccer team also plays U-League every week. I hope that the challenge, passion, effort and fighting spirit of our soccer team will be widely known by this runner-up."
Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
