South Korean women’s soccer standouts Ji So-yeon (Suwon FC), Cho So-hyun (Tottenham) and Lee Keum-min (Brighton) will start against Colombia.
Head coach Colleen Bell’s South Korea women’s national team (17th in FIFA rankings) will take on Colombia (25th) in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Friday at 11 a.m. ET in their first Group H match of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia New Zealand.
According to the lineup released ahead of the match, South Korea will feature a number of experienced veterans.
It’s more of a 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 formation. It’s a similar lineup to the one they used against Haiti in the virtual Colombia match on Aug. 8.
Casey Fair, who has been named to the final squad for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia-New Zealand 2023, talks to the media before training at the Paju National Football Center in Gyeonggi on July 5.
Kim Hye-ri, Lim Sun-joo (formerly of Incheon Hyundai Steel) and Shim Seo-yeon (Suwon FC) will work together in defense, while Chu Hyo-joo (Suwon FC) and Jang Seul-ki (Incheon Hyundai Steel) were named as left and right fullbacks.
The veteran trio of Lee Kum-min, Ji So-yeon, and Cho So-hyun combined in the midfield, with Choi Yuri and Son Hwa-yeon (Incheon Hyundai Steel) as the front two.
Yoon Young-gl (BK Hecken) wore the goalkeeping gloves.
Casey Eugene Fair (PDA), a mixed-race player born in 2007 to an American father and Korean mother and the youngest player in the tournament, 스포츠토토 and veteran forward Eunsun Park (Seoul Metropolitan Government) wait on the bench.