Coach Rigobert Song (46) of the Cameroon national football team, which will be playing the evaluation match against Bentuho, vowed to win by checking players for the World Cup stage.
In an online press conference on the 26th, one day before the evaluation match against the Korean national team led by coach Paulo Bento, Song said, “We didn’t come to see Korean football, we came to win.
Tomorrow’s match (than Uzbekistan) is expected to be a little more difficult.
We intend to improve our problems and win.
The team atmosphere is very good.”
Cameroon and the Korean national team will play an evaluation match at the Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8 pm on the 27th.
Korea, which is ranked 28th in the FIFA rankings, has an advantage over Cameroon, 38th, with 2 wins and 2 draws in their all-time record.
Earlier, Cameroon lost 0-2 to Uzbekistan in a friendly match held at Goyang Sports Complex in Gyeonggi Province on the 23rd.
When asked about his readiness for the Korean War, Song said, “The point to focus on in this game is simple.
Korea and Cameroon are about to participate in an important tournament called the World Cup, and this match is a match to prepare for the World Cup in Qatar.”
Regarding Bentuho’s strength, he said, “The whole team is more important than one player.
The Korean national team is a great team, and as far as I know, they have played in the World Cup several times.
There are so many great players that I cannot mention them all, and there are players who play in good European teams.
Cameroon did not call key players such as striker Eric Maxim Chupomotting (Bayern Munich) and midfielder Zambo Anguisa (Napoli) for this call.
In fact, they came to Korea as a 1.5-team team.
Manager Song emphasized, “A lot of new players have been recruited for this call, and we are still looking at players as we are preparing for the World Cup.”
Regarding the reason for excluding the main players from the list, he said, “There is no particular reason.
Chupo Moting is a player we already know all too well.
“I wanted to see a variety of players,” he said.
“Every player has a role to play,” he added.
Cameroon will also focus on checking the skills of several players against Korea.
Coach Song, who predicted that “there will be a rotation,” said, “I don’t have much time, but I will look at various players and prepare by focusing on the first match of the 2022 Qatar World Cup (against Switzerland).”
Meanwhile, on the same day, coach Song announced that he would play a friendly match against Jamaica on November 9th at the World Cup launch ceremony.
Cameroon will face Brazil, Switzerland and Serbia in Group G of the Qatar World Cup.
/yunhap news