AGE-GROUP NATIONAL TEAM ’85 GAMES’ PLAYER CHO YOUNG-WOOK GETS SELF-MADE ‘EARLY RETIREMENT’

After a decade and more than 80 games as an age-group representative, Cho Young-wook, 24, honorably handed in his “early retirement” after leading South Korea’s men’s soccer team to victory at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, which will be his last tournament as an age-group representative. Cho scored his team’s second goal 11 minutes into the second half of the Hangzhou Asian Games men’s football final against Japan on Sunday at the Huanglong Sports Center Stadium in Hangzhou, China, to secure a 2-1 victory. The goal was a stroke of genius after South Korea conceded a goal in the first two minutes of the match and then equalized through Jung Woo-young (Stuttgart) in the 27th minute. The goal sealed South Korea’s third consecutive men’s soccer title with a 2-1 victory .It was a goal with multiple meanings for Cho, who, according to his national team appearance record on the Korea Football Association’s website, has represented his country at every age group since the U-14s at the Nanjing Asian Youth Games in August 2013.He went on to play for the U-20 and U-23 national teams, and today’s final against Japan was his 85th appearance for his country at age group level .With the Asian Games being postponed by a year to allow players under the age of 24 to compete, he was given the opportunity to make his final appearance at the age group level, where he remained the main striker for Hwang Seon-hong and helped Korea to a gold medal, surpassing his pre-tournament goal of three goals. With a multi-goal performance in the group stage against Kuwait and a single goal in the round of 16 against Kyrgyzstan, he proved to be the difference maker when his team needed him the most .Jo Young-wook, who has been touted as the ‘next big franchise star’ after playing for FC Seoul in K League 1 since 2018, joined K League 2 Gimcheon Sangmu this year to serve in the military, and was doubly delighted to receive an early discharge as a benefit of his gold medal win. He scored 13 goals in the K League 2 this season, finishing second in the league behind Lewis (Gimpo-16), and was forced out of the top scorer’s race. He was also called up to the senior national team last year, appearing in four A matches, so it will be interesting to see if we’ll see him more often with the 카지노사이트 A team instead of the age-group representatives.

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