"Korean national team is a disaster at the 2024 Asian Cup"

Chosun newspaper compared the Korean national team to a disaster at the 2024 Asian Cup finals, after this team lost to Jordan in the semi-finals.

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Before the confrontation in the 2024 Asian Cup semi-finals, the Korean team (ranked 23rd in the world) was rated higher than its opponent ranked 64 places below FIFA, Jordan (ranked 87th in the world).

However, in the semi-finals held late on the evening of February 6, the Korean national team caused great disappointment when they lost 2 unanswered goals to the Middle Eastern team.

With this result, the first ticket to play the 2024 Asian Cup final belongs to Jordan while Son Heung Min and his teammates officially have to say goodbye to the tournament.

South Korea lost miserably to Jordan in the 2024 Asian Cup semi-finals

Notably, immediately after the home team's defeat, South Korea's Chosun newspaper published an article titled: "Korea lost 0-2 to 87th-ranked Jordan, not having a single shot on target, a disaster." in Qatar".

"The Asian Cup will be meaningless unless your team wins. Expectations are very high as the current Korean team is considered the strongest team in the country's football history," Chosun began.

The "Korean Land" newspaper expressed disappointment: "Korea aims to advance to the Asian Cup final for the first time in 9 years since the 2015 tournament in Australia.

But it did not come true. Korean football lost to Jordan after 3 wins and 3 draws. The 2-2 draw in the second match of the group stage was a quite lucky result for Korea."

At the end of the article, the writer of the Chosun newspaper even emphasized: "There is no effective shot. Coach Klinsmann's limitations are very clear. There is no future for him in football."

Sharing with the media after the match, coach Klinsmann admitted to being disappointed when the Korean team lost to Jordan and took responsibility for himself.

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The number 1 star of the Korean team, captain Son Heung Min, could not hide his sadness. He admitted that he did not play well and apologized to fans of the "land of kimchi".

Son Heung Min even revealed that he would consider retiring from the Korean national team when receiving questions related to the upcoming important tournament, the 2026 World Cup.