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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:47 pm Post subject: North Korea World Cup team reprimanded |
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North Korea's soccer team and coach have been reprimanded for losing all three games at the World Cup in South Africa, a news report said.
The team and coach Kim Jong Hun were summoned to a meeting at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on July 2, the U.S.-financed Radio Free Asia reported Monday.
Sports Minister Pak Myong Chol was among some 400 government officials, athletes and others at the six-hour closed-door session, the report said.
Team members were forced to reprimand their coach at the end of the gathering, the report said.
Japan-based players Jong Tae Se and An Yong Hak were exempted from the meeting, RFA said.
Competing in its second World Cup finals after an absence of 44 years, North Korea exited at the group stage, beaten 2-1 by Brazil, then lost to Portugal 7-0 and to Ivory Coast 3-0.
The report cited two unidentified sources in North Korea and a Chinese businessman named Yu, described as knowledgeable about North Korea affairs.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service, the country's main spy agency, said Wednesday it could not immediately confirm the report.
Groups in Seoul that monitor information out of North Korea said they could not corroborate the report, and there was no mention of any such meeting in Pyongyang's state media.
A veteran of North Korea's 1966 squad had previously said the team would be receive a warm welcome despite their poor performance.
"Now when the Korean team gets home, officials and crowds of people will go to the airport to welcome them," Pak Du Ik, who led his country to the quarter-finals in England 44 years ago, told television news agency APTN in Pyongyang last month.
"We have learned a lesson from the three World Cup matches, we accumulated experience and we found an answer to how to improve our football."
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If any of the players or coaches are punished (sent to gulags/coal mines) then FIFA should definitely ban the country from international competition indefinitely. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:52 am Post subject: Re: North Korea World Cup team reprimanded |
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| catman wrote: |
If any of the players or coaches are punished (sent to gulags/coal mines) then FIFA should definitely ban the country from international competition indefinitely. |
"They took the stage at the People's Palace of Culture in the capital Pyongyang while 400 students subjected them to a six-hour reprimand.
Reports claim coach Kim Jong-Hun was made to work on a building site and expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/29072010/58/world-cup-2010-north-korean-flops-shamed-public.html |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| If true, NK should be expelled from FIFA. The Nigerian team was suspended by the President of the country, but I don't think any more came out about that. I guess they are waiting for the next game to see if the suspension is enforced. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Better than what used to happen to Iraqi footballers.
"During the rule of the government of Saddam Hussein, Saddam's son, Uday Hussein, was in charge of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and, by extension, the national football team. Under Uday's leadership, motivational lectures to the team included threats to cut off players' legs, while missed practices resulted in prison time and losses resulted in flogging with electric cable or baths in raw sewage, if penalites or an open goal was missed or own goals were scored then that person would have their feet whipped with thorns."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_national_football_team |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| So unnecessary. If they wanted to shame the players, all they had to do was show replays of their loss to Portugal as often as South Korea played replays of their victory against Portugal in 2002. |
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