Concurrent national team position’ Hwang Seon-hong is missing, and eight Saudi Arabian countries participate in the competition.
From the final Olympic qualifiers in April, Coach Hwang will again lead Hwang Seon-hong.
The roadmap to Paris for Hwang Seon-hong’s U-23 national soccer team,
aiming to advance to the Olympic finals for the 10th consecutive time, has been confirmed. 바카라사이트
The Korea Football Association confirmed and announced the March and April schedule
for the U-23 national team led by coach Hwang Seon-hong on the 5th.
First, Seon-Hong Hwang will participate as an invited team in the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF)
U-23 Championship during the international match period in March.
The WAFF U-23 Championship will be held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia from the 18th to the 26th,
and eight countries will participate: Korea, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq, Australia, Thailand, and Egypt.
In this competition, each team plays three times.
It will be held as a quarterfinal tournament,
with winners and losers competing against each other to determine rankings from 1st to 8th.
As a result of the draw held on the 4th, Korea will play its first match against Thailand on the 20th.
Depending on the result of the Thailand match, they will play against the winner or loser of the Saudi Arabia-Jordan match on the 23rd,
and the final ranking match will be held on the 26th.
The list of participating players will be announced along with the national team convocation list on the 11th.
Seon-Hong Hwang was summoned to Incheon International Airport on the night of the 17th and is scheduled to depart for Saudi Arabia.
As Coach Hwang will temporarily serve as the interim coach of the National Team A and lead the 2026 North and Central America World Cup 2nd qualifying round match against Thailand during the March international match,
head coach Myung Jae-yong will lead the ‘Hwang Seon-hong without Hwang Seon-hong’ in the WAFF U-23 Championship.
In addition, Hwang Hee-hoon, a full-time coach of the Football Association,
will replace coach Kim Il-jin, who will serve as the temporary goalkeeper coach for the National Team A,
and join Hwang Seon-hong as the goalkeeper coach during the tournament.
The training camp schedule for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup,
which will be held in Qatar in April and will serve as the final qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympics, has also been confirmed.
After returning home after the WAFF U-23 Championship,
Hwang Sun-hong will confirm the final roster for the U-23 Asian Cup and convene again in Korea on April 3.
From this point on, Coach Hwang will again directly lead the U-23 national team.
Seon-Hong Hwang will then leave the country on the 5th and train in Dubai, UAE.
On the 9th, he plans to have a final warm-up with a practice match against the Middle East team, and then enters Doha, Qatar, the site of the final match, on the 10th.
16 teams will participate in the U-23 Asian Cup, and the top three teams will advance directly to the Olympic finals.
The 4th place will play a playoff against the 4th place in the African qualifiers to decide whether to go to Paris.
Korea belongs to Group B of the group stage and will face UAE (16th), China (19th), and Japan (22nd) in turn.