How are the members of the North Korean national team selected?

Li Mingguo -GK Ernst & Young hak -MF YongJo Hong -FW Zheng Dashi -FW Korea and Japan jae -MF Liang Yongji -MF Chezhengxue -DF Nanchengzhe -DF Wanyingqu -MF

North Korean Football-Rise

After 43 years, North Korea finally got a second chance to enter the World Cup finals. For a time, praise and affirmation followed. Especially for some reason, the mystery it produces is full of desire.

How did such a national football team return to the top teams in Asia?

Korean football spirit

Korean football

When it comes to North Korean football, "spirit" always comes first. Most of the players in the North Korean national team are soldiers, and they are built on the basis of the most powerful "People's Army Club" (4.25 Club) in China. These players have a strong fighting spirit and are very firm in their technical and tactical concepts and requirements for coaches. Moreover, this team has been training and living together for a long time, so there is a tacit understanding on the court and the team is very United. It is no accident that the "rise" of North Korean football has a strong spirit of hardship, ardent patriotic enthusiasm, humble learning attitude and an open mind of "going out". Of course, coupled with the horrible home court, clear qualifying strategy, the mentality of fighting for victory in the face of strong teams, and the fighting spirit of winning in the face of fish sticks, everything is possible. North Korea qualified, but China didn't even enter 10. Our enthusiasm is no less than that of Koreans, and our consumption is higher than that of Koreans, but our World Cup is just a broken dream every time!

Korean football-therapy

Food: the meat is tight: no one has a car.

According to South Korean media reports, North Korean players are allowed to use mobile phones. In North Korea, mobile phones are still a luxury. The player's mobile phone was not bought in a mobile phone shop, but issued by the company. The food supply is not rich enough, but it is unlikely to be full. At least in the first-class league teams, food is still guaranteed. North Korea is rich in vegetables and eggs, but meat is a little tight. In this case, the advantages of the military football team are obvious. Players are much superior to local teams in terms of personal treatment, living rations and equipment.

The North Korean team once came to Hainan for training. Kim, deputy secretary-general of the Korean Football Association, officially stated that no player in North Korea has a private car, which is certain. Even if Zheng Dashi can get a high salary in the J League, he can't buy a car after returning home. There are still buses burning coal in North Korea, and cars are a status symbol in North Korea. Zheng Dashi can't even drive a car, let alone an ordinary player. However, sometimes they can take the Pyongyang subway and trolleybus for free, while ordinary people spend money on the subway.

Korean Football-Overseas Players

Born in Japan, he retained his Korean nationality and devoted himself to serving the country.

At present, the system of local teams in North Korea still belongs to the nature of professional teams, which is similar to the original "provincial teams" in China. North Korea's domestic leagues are divided into three levels, and the highest level is the "first team league". Restricted by economy and traffic, leagues at all levels also implement the tournament system, and there is no foreign exchange in the form of commercial sponsorship, foreign teachers and foreign aid. But it is wrong to think that Korean football is autistic. Besides playing in China, North Korean players also play in South Korea, Japan and even Europe.

Now there are many players in this Korean national team playing overseas, especially in the J League in Japan. For example, striker Zheng Dashi played for Kawasaki striker, ranking third in the J League scorer list last season and fourth this season; Korea and Japan played for Sanjian in Hiroshima, Liang Yongji played for Vegata in Sendai, Jim Yong Kim played for Belma in southern Hunan, Hyun-Su Kang played for Katalai in Fushan, Ernst & Young Huck played for Niigata Swan, and last year, he also played for South Korea's K-League champion Samsung in Shui Yuan. In addition, Ying Chao, the main midfielder, went to Bezania in Serbian first division in 2007 and moved to Rostov last summer. Substitute Jin Yongjun is familiar to China fans. He played for Chengdu Sheffield United last season. It is these overseas players who "borrow chickens to lay eggs" that have improved the overall strength of the North Korean team and written the miracle of North Korean football.

These overseas players all have strong patriotism. Zheng Dashi and Ernst & Young Huck are two or three generations of Korean immigrants born in Japan. Although they were born in Japan, they all retained Korean nationality, received orthodox Korean education in Japan since childhood, and actively chose to represent North Korea in international competitions.

In addition to these overseas players, the football atmosphere in North Korea is also very strong. Although the hardware is poor, for example, the venue is not necessarily paved with turf, and the training equipment is not a world famous brand; Under the consumption of a large amount of exercise, athletes just eat and wear warm clothes, not to mention a higher level of nutrition and rehabilitation. However, the "football fever" in North Korea is very high-almost every school in primary school, middle school and university has a football team, which plays frequently with each other, including many enterprises, and also regards playing football as an important means to enrich their spare time, expand and communicate with other enterprises.

Football in North Korea-Cheer up from the desert

Korean football

After the North Korean team made a blockbuster, all the sports media in the world reported it at the first time. The AFC described the rise of North Korean football as "rising from the desert". The article said that North Korea got the support of FIFA, and the youth football made great progress, and finally proved itself with tenacious will.

According to the FIFA article, "Looking forward to the World Cup in South Africa, North Korea's goal is to surpass South Korea. This seems to be an impossible task, but who would have thought that North Korea could shock the world at 1966? "

South Korea also cast an appreciative eye on North Korean football. "Korean Sports" published an article saying that organizational ability is the enemy weapon of North Korean football, and North Korean players always train in teams together.

North Korean Football-About

Sports in North Korea belong to an organization called "April 25th Sports Group". From the time of Kim Il Sung, the team was ordered to be divided into three levels. Team building and training are based on each administrative region, that is, the first level "central level" (army or central team), the second level "road team level" (local team) and the third level "enterprise level" (university team and enterprise team).

Due to economic and traffic factors, North Korean leagues at all levels do not play home and away games, but are held in a place near Pyongyang, the capital, from April to June and from August to June and from August to 65438+1October every year. North Korean football has no sponsorship, and it is not allowed to sell naming rights and jerseys advertisements, nor are there foreign teachers, foreign aid and foreign advertisements.

In the past few years, due to little communication with the international community, the international ranking is lower than Indonesia, but it is worthy of recognition that they have a tenacious style of playing football and regard dedication to the country as the supreme honor. They often burst into tears for the national flag in the locker room and never leave the stadium after breaking their bones.

North Korea still practices rationing. Because women's football is valued by the state, each person can have a quota of 750 grams of food every day, while the conditions of men's football are not so good. However, according to an insider, as an athlete, eating is not a problem.