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Kang-in Lee (Mallorca), the ‘Golden Boy’ of Korean football, will return to the Bentu Lake two months before the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
On the morning of the 13th, coach Paulo Bento of the Korean national football team announced the list of players who will play in the September A match against Costa Rica and Cameroon at the Jongno-gu Football Center in Seoul.
Kang-in Lee, who has been very active in the Spanish La Liga by scoring attack points (one goal and three assists) in four consecutive games this season, was selected by coach Bento and was included in the 26-member roster.
It is the first time in a year and six months for Lee Kang-in to return to the A team since the evaluation match against Japan (0-3 loss) in March last year.
Kang-in Lee made his debut in the national team A in a friendly match against Georgia in September 2019 and was consistently listed until the match against Japan, but after that he moved away from Bento’s idea.
The two evaluation matches in September are the last player test stage to be held before qualifying for the Qatar World Cup finals.
For Lee Kang-in, this is his last chance.
The fact that the number of entries in the finals from 23 until the last competition increased to 26 due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) seems to have made Lee Kang-in’s return somewhat easier.
Bento said, “The reason for selecting Kang-in Lee is the same as the reason for selecting other players.
The only player selected for the first time in the Bentoo is K-League 1 Gangwon FC’s “Shin Sung” Hyun-Jun Yang.
Yang Hyun-jun, who made his professional debut last year, has been playing an active role as the core of the team’s attack, scoring eight goals and four assists in the league this season.
Except for Lee Kang-in and Yang Hyun-jun, there was no choice that could be called a ‘surprise selection’.
Min-jae Kim (Fenerbahce), the ‘monster defender’ who was absent from the 4th match in June due to an injury, will return to the national team after 6 months.
In addition, three European strikers, Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Hwang Ui-jo (Olympiacos), and Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), were called by Bento as expected.
Bentuho will play an evaluation match against Costa Rica at the Goyang Sports Complex at 8 pm on the 23rd and Cameroon at the Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8 pm on the 27th.
After confirming the final list, they plan to hold an evaluation battle for the launch ceremony in November and depart for Qatar, the ‘stage of the decisive battle’.
At the World Cup in Qatar, Korea was in Group H of the group stage with Portugal, Uruguay and Ghana.
▲ Goalkeeper = Seung-gyu Kim (Al-Shabaab) Hyun-woo Jo (Ulsan) Beom-geun Song (Jeonbuk)
▲ DF = Kim Min-jae (Naples) Kim Young-kwon Kim Tae-hwan (Ulsan) Kwon Kyeong-won (Gamba Osaka) Jo Yu-min (Daejeon Hana Citizen) Kim Moon-hwan Kim Jin-soo (Jeonbuk) Jong-gyu Yoon (Seoul) Hong Chul (Daegu)
▲ MF = Woo-Young Jung (Al-Sad) Seung-Ho Baek (Jeonbuk) Jun-Ho Son (Taishan, Shandong) In-Beom Hwang (Olympiacos) Jae-Sung Lee (Mainz) Chang-Hoon Kwon (Chun) Jung Woo-Young (Freiburg) Kang-In Lee (Mallorca) Heung-Min Son (Tottenham) Hee-Chan Hwang (Wolverhampton) Sang-Ho Na (Seoul) Yang Hyun-jun (Gangwon)
▲ FW = Hwang Ui-jo (Olympiacos) Jo Gyu-seong (Jeonbuk)
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