FIFA vice president Chung Mong Joon hopes rally support in Asia for South Korea as the unity candidate to defeat the United States in the campaign to hostthe 2022 World Cup. Chung plans to fly to Kuala Lumpur on Monday to seek the backing of the Asian Football Confederation, whose president Mohamed BinHammam will support […]
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World Cup kids on fast track to stardom
[SOUTH KOREA] Yeo Min Ji and her teammates on South Korea’s 2010 under-17 national team were 9 years old in 2002 whenthey watched the World Cup being held in South Korea and Japan. Eight years later, they captured South Korea’s first world championship, defeating Japan on penalty kicks in Sunday’s Under-17 Women’sWorld Cup final after […]