Norway won’t be present to play in Germany
The Norwegian team failed to be accepted for this year edition of the world Cup, but that doesn’t suggest Norway doesn’t have a great football team.
Norway can point to a good record in recent times. The Scandinavians qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup USA but fell in the first round by the slimmest of margins. All four groups in their group finished on the same number of points and goal difference ; but Norway had scored fewer goals and packed their bags for home.
four years later they had a great part in France 1998 defeating the potent Brazil in what’s considered the best game they’ve ever play in the final stage of this competitions. That victory enabled them to go to the round of sixteen, but lost against a very good Italy squad.
Norway missed the Korea/Japan World Cup and this year will not be present either in Germany. But they have lots of young players that given the continuity needed the can put together a good team for the future.
South Korea is obviously the most successful Asian team. They’ve been to more FIFA World Cup finals than any other Asia team. This will be their seventh appearance and 6th successive.
Pacific Rim’s most frequent visitors to FIFA World Cup finals and first appeared at the world showpiece in 1954. Before 2002 they hadn’t managed a single win in fourteen finals matches. That all changed under Dutch coach Guus Hiddink who led them to the last four victories over 4 european teams, were they manage to get to the semifinals leaving in the way Italy and Spain a first for any Asian team in a World Cup.
Park Ji-Sung, now at Manchester United, gives a real attacking threat from midfield while left-back Lee Young-Pyo is a key figure in a defense. That operates in front of experienced goalkeeper Lee Woon-Jae. There are tons of options up front while, Ahn Jung-Hwan whose golden goal defeated Italy, Cha Du-Ri and Lee Dong-Gook the top scorer at the 2k AFC Asian Cup.
With a formidable and experienced squad Korea will have the chance to repeat their performance from last year edition. to do that they have to prepare superb and one step of that preparation will be the friendly matches. Such as the one they’ll have in Oslo against Norway that may help them to correct those last minute details before the big contest.
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