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(LEAD) S. Korea beat Moldova 4-0 in last tuneup before World Cup qualifiers

(ATTN: ADDS details in paras 4, 6 coach's comments in paras 11-12, 17-18)By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea defeated Moldova 4-0 for their second straight men's football friendly victory in Turkey on Friday, capping off a suc
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Young guns leave their marks on nat'l football team with complete efforts in friendly victory

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- For their second straight men's football friendly victory in Turkey on Friday, South Korea enjoyed complete, two-way efforts from young players trying to survive an upcoming lineup crunch.Midfielders Kim Ji
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S. Korea beat Moldova 4-0 in last tuneup before World Cup qualifiers

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea defeated Moldova 4-0 for their second straight men's football friendly victory in Turkey on Friday, capping off a successful training camp before the resumption of their World Cup qualifying cam
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Hwang Hee-chan returns to training "recovering quickly to come back with better performance"

SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) – S. Korean football player Hwang Hee-chan(26·Wolverhampton), who is recovering from a hamstring injury, promised the fans to try his best to come back with the best performanc
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(LEAD) Women's nat'l football coach planning to unleash players at top Asian tournament

(ATTN: ADDS comments from Vietnamese coach in paras 9-11)By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- Colin Bell, head coach of the South Korean women's national football team, believes he has a strong squad with "very talented players."An
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Women's nat'l football coach planning to unleash players at top Asian tournament

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- Colin Bell, head coach of the South Korean women's national football team, believes he has a strong squad with "very talented players."And when South Korea's pursuit of their first continent
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Midfielder puts emphasis on team play over individual action

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- As skilled as he is at generating offense from his midfield position for South Korea, Kwon Chang-hoon believes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."I always try to execute team-oriented plays,
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Men's nat'l football coach demands more from players after resounding friendly win

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- With one friendly match down and one more to go before South Korea's World Cup qualifying campaign resumes this month, head coach Paulo Bento wants to keep pushing his players."The goal is to compete
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S. Korea to embark on quest for maiden Asian women's football title vs. Vietnam

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's quest for their first Asian women's football title will begin Friday in India against Vietnam.It will be the opening Group C contest for the two teams at the 2022 Asian Football Confederat
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Veteran forward wants to return favor to coach, help new club to K League title

GEOJE, South Korea, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- Nearly a decade after winning a historic Olympic football medal together in London, veteran forward Park Chu-young and longtime coach Hong Myung-bo have been reunited on the perennial K League contender, Ulsan
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Blown call aside, S. Korean forward trying to become complete player

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean forward Kim Gun-hee thought he had his first senior international goal last Saturday against Iceland, only to have the marker wiped off by a questionable offside call.There was no video assistant r
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Son Heung-min congratulates Erik Lamela for winning Puskas Award

SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- Son Heung-min (30, Tottenham) was delighted with his former colleague Erik Lamela (Sevilla) winning the Puskas Award.Son wrote on his SNS on Wednesday (KST), with a photo of
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Well-traveled football defender constantly searching for improvement

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- Nearly a decade into his club football career, South Korean defender Kwon Kyung-won recently joined his sixth club in the fourth different country.There is more to this than wanderlust for the 29-year-old, who
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(LEAD) K League champions Jeonbuk to face Japanese runners-up in 2022 AFC Champions League

(ATTN: ADDS details on schedule in paras 10-11)By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- The five-time defending South Korean football champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors will take on the Japanese league runners-up Yokohama F. Marinos in the top Asian clu
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K League champions Jeonbuk to face Japanese runners-up in 2022 AFC Champions League

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- The five-time defending South Korean football champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors will take on the Japanese league runners-up Yokohama F. Marinos in the top Asian club competition this year.The group stage draw fo
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Injured Premier Leaguers Son, Hwang temporarily left off S. Korean team for World Cup qualifiers

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's two Premier League players, Son Heung-min of Tottenham Hotspur and Hwang Hee-chan of Wolverhampton Wanderers, were kept off the national team for upcoming World Cup qualifiers on Monday becaus
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Football youngsters enjoy rare moment in spotlight in convincing friendly win

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- Goals came fast and furious for South Korea, and some of the country's top young football talents got to showcase their chops in a breezy friendly win over Iceland on Saturday.South Korea enjoyed a 5-1 vict
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S. Korea cruise past Iceland 5-1 in men's football friendly

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea overwhelmed Iceland in a resounding 5-1 victory in their men's football friendly match in Turkey on Saturday, flexing their attacking muscle in the first of two tuneup games ahead of World Cup q
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EPL Player of the Month for December goes to City's Raheem Sterling, not Son Heung-min

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min failed to win the Premier League Player of the Month for December. It goes to Manchester City's Raheem Sterling. Sterling was vot
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Ex-Barca youth player thriving with extended opportunity in K League

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- After an ultimately unsuccessful stint in Europe, former FC Barcelona youth player Paik Seung-ho has been penning a much better chapter of his career at home.His success with the K League 1 champions Jeonbuk Hy