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Nat'l football coach holding out hope for return of injured stars Son, Hwang

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- With South Korea's World Cup qualifying campaign scheduled to resume later this month, the team's head coach Paulo Bento hasn't abandoned hope of having two of his most important players back from i
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K Leaguers to vie for inclusion for World Cup qualifiers in friendly vs. Iceland

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- With South Korea on the verge of reaching the 2022 FIFA World Cup, players from the domestic league will have a couple of cracks this month at stating their case for inclusion on the national team for upcoming
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Pro football season set for earliest start to accommodate World Cup

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean professional football will have its earliest start to a season in 2022 to accommodate participation in the FIFA World Cup in November, the league office announced Thursday.The 2022 K League 1 s
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FC Seoul coach appreciative of hard-working veterans

NAMHAE, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- With FC Seoul having gone through a topsy-turvy 2021 season that included a coaching change, new bench boss An Ik-soo decided to give some of his veterans extra rest before the starting of offseason training c
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(LEAD) Women's football coach wants to go 'step by step' toward continental title, World Cup berth

(ATTN: ADDS player's comments in paras 15-16, details in paras 7, 17-18; CHANGES photos)NAMHAE, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- With his team just days away from entering the top continental women's football tournament, South Korea head coac
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Women's football coach wants to go 'step by step' toward continental title, World Cup berth

NAMHAE, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- With his team just days away from entering the top continental women's football tournament, South Korea head coach Colin Bell is preaching the importance of staying in the moment."We will try to take
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Son Heung-min suffers muscle injury…Conte "have to wait until after Jan int'l break "

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- ‘Ace’ Son Heung-min(30)’s muscle injury made English Premier League(EPL) club Tottenham Hotspur deeply worried.Antonio Conte, the head coach of Tottenham, predicted that Son
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K League scoring champion on nat'l team snub: 'I have to be better'

SEOGWIPO, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- One of the great mysteries in South Korean football in recent months has been the continued absence of Jeju United striker Joo Min-kyu on the senior men's national team.Though he won the scoring title in
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Midfielder wants to capitalize on rare opportunity with senior nat'l team

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- Gangwon FC midfielder Kim Dae-won is training with the senior men's national team for the first time in Turkey this month.He wants to make sure it won't be his last stint with the big boys.The 24-year-o
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Barca youth product Lee Seung-woo seeking more playing time on home soil

SEOGWIPO, South Korea, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- After bouncing around multiple European clubs with little success, Lee Seung-woo, a product of FC Barcelona's famous youth academy, has landed with Suwon FC in South Korea's K League 1 with one major
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Lone teenager at nat'l football camp inspired by Son Heung-min

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- At the tender of 19, Gwangju FC midfielder Eom Ji-sung earned his first callup to the men's senior national football team for January's training camp in Turkey.The talented teenager stands out for his s
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Men's U-23 football coach wants to bring hope to virus-stricken country

SEOGWIPO, South Korea, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- The year 2022 will be an important one for the South Korean men's under-23 national football team, with two major competitions on the horizon.And the team's head coach, Hwang Sun-hong, said Monday th
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England-based veterans headline S. Korean roster for Women's Asian Cup

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- A trio of England-based veterans, including the high-scoring midfielder Ji So-yun, will try to lead South Korea to their first continental women's football title this month in India.The Korea Football Assoc
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Son Heung-min likely out for rest of Jan. with leg injury

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 8 (Yonhap) -- Tottenham Hotspur star and South Korea captain Son Heung-min will likely miss the rest of January with a leg injury, a blow to both his club and his country ahead of crucial matches.Tottenham boss Antonio Conte
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Suwon Samsung Bluewings post photo of newborn to announce player signing

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- To announce their acquisition of a highly-regarded Dutch defender Dave Bulthuis, Suwon Samsung Bluewings got creative on Friday.The K League 1 club uploaded a picture of Bulthuis' newborn son on its Instagram page around
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Son Heung-min nominated for player of 2021 December

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean striker Son Heung-min, who plays for Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League (EPL), has been nominated for December 2021's EA SPORTS Player of the Mo
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2nd-year coach for Ulsan looking to end long K League title drought

ULSAN, Jan. 5 (Yonhap) -- Ulsan Hyundai FC brought in a new head coach for 2021 but ended up with the same result for a third straight season in the K League 1: finishing runners-up to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.It was a particularly bitter pillow to swa
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K League adds new promotion-relegation playoff for 2022

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korean club football will have an additional promotion-relegation playoff in 2022, providing an extra second-division club with a chance to compete with the big boys.The Korea Professional Football League
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K League runners-up Ulsan lose 2 key players to rival clubs

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korean football runners-up Ulsan Hyundai FC lost two key players on Monday, with midfielder Yoon Bitgaram and defender Hong Chul moving to rival clubs.Yoon, the most valuable player at the 2020 Asian Footb
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S. Korean football's top scorer wants to get monkey off back with continental title

NAMHAE, South Korea, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- Ji So-yun, South Korean football's all-time leading scorer, has won numerous trophies in her illustrious club career. It has been a different story with the national team, though, and the attacking midfield