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[nzfooty]

National Team
Next major competition: East Asian Football Federation Tournament

Olympic Team
Needing to win the group, Korea took a huge step towards qualifying for the Olympics last night. They will face Syria in Seoul on Wed night.
Details:
Olympic Games Asia Qualification Overview

Korea v Syria @ Seoul WC Stadium, Wed Sep-12, 8 pm

Bahrain 0 - 1 Korea

Other results in this group:
Korea 2 - 1 Uzbekistan
Syria 1 - 2 Bahrain
Uzbekistan 0 - 0 Syria

[dalpengi]

A win against Syria and this group is all but won, especially if Bahrain drop points in Uzbekistan.

Have to say, Korea has been lucky with the draw. Group A has Iraq, Australia, North Korea and Lebanon while Group C has Japan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar (who are the current Asian Champions in the u-23 category) and Vietnam.

[nzfooty]

Olympic Team
Fixtures:
12 Sep 07
Uzbekistan 1-2 Bahrain
Korea 1-0 Syria

17 Oct 07
Bahrain - Uzbekistan
Syria - Korea Republic

However, it looks like Bahrain are not giving up. Two of their remaining matches are at home so they probably pick up more points there which will probably mean that the final match v Korea in Seoul will be the decider.

[nzfooty]

Olympic Games Qalification - final round

GR B
17 Oct 07 Bahrain 2 - 0 Uzbekistan
17 Oct 07 Syria 0 - 0 Korea Republic

[nzfooty]

The last international match of any significance will take place in Ansan, (Ansan Wa~ Stadium) on Wednesday 21st at 8pm. South Korea will take on Bahrain in the decisive match of the qualifiers for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Korea has produced some dull football during the Olympic qualifiers but Bahrain have been pretty decent away from home in the qualifiers and with everything to play for this may not be as bad a match as it looked originally when the draw was announced.

Korea has to avoid a loss� (kind of like England v Croatia couple hours alter). A win for Bahrain and it�s bye bye Korea and Bahrain will be one of three teams representing Asia at the next Olympics.

[VanIslander]

[nzfooty]

[nzfooty]

Details of the Olympic Qualifier decider between South Korea and Bahrain.

Korea v Bahrain
(Wed, 21 Nov. 8pm, Ansan, @ Ansan Wa~)

Also, an article about the match:

Day of Truth

This Korea Times article is quite critical of the style of play employed by the Koreans but truth is, they a draw will be enough for them.

[kreitler7]

Cool! Who's the quarterback?

[nzfooty]

Someone by the very unkorean sounding name of Boring Troll.

[nzfooty]

Korea did it but it was another terribly dull performance. Their attack is unbelievably woeful but somehow their manage to grind out the result needed to take them to major tournaments. Here is an interesting fact pointed out by Holyjoe in the ROKfootball forum:

[Yaya]

I'm all for getting rid of soccer in the Olympics, not to mention basketball and a host of other sports that ALREADY have their own world championships.

I hear the soccer competition in the Olympics is limited to under 23 and a few veterans over that age. Like anyone cares about Olympic soccer compared to the continental and world championships.

[just because]

[nzfooty]

2008 fixtures

List of matches the South Korean national team will play in 2008:

February 6th: Turkmenistan (h) - World Cup qualification
February 17th: China (Chonqing, China) - East Asian Championship
February 20th: North Korea (Chonqing, China) - East Asian Championship
February 23th: Japan (Chonqing, China) - East Asian Championship
March 26th: North Korea (a) - World Cup qualification
June 2nd: Jordan (h) - World Cup qualification
June 7th: Jordan (a) - World Cup qualification
June 14th: Turkmenistan (a) - World Cup qualification
June 22nd: North Korea (h) - World Cup qualification

h- home (Korea)
a- away

If Korea survives this set of qualifiers (they should, as they only need to finish in the top-2 in this group (other teams: Nth Korea, Jordan, Turmenistan)) they will qualify for the final round of World Cup qualifiers where they will meet slightly bigger fish (Australia, Japan, Iran etc.).

Matches to take place between 15 October 2008 and 9 September 2009, which probably means two more matches in 2008.

Top-4 in Asia qualify for the World Cup, 5th placed team will play the Oceania champion (most likely New Zealand) for the final spot at the World Cup.

[mervsdamun]

Ah, the World Cup. Well, let the madness begin (although this is a low key set of fixtures in the first half of 2008 � no doubt the Koreans will assume that six wins out of six are a given� well maybe the matches v North Korea will be of some interest though).

When the final rounds starts in the second half of the year, things should be more interesting. If Korea ends up in a group with Japan and Australia, qualification might become a bit of a challenge.