"Declaring lack of oxygen and struggle" Hong Myung-bo confirmed Guadalajara to base camp in North American World Cup... 1566m upland

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Hong Myung-bo's 2026 FIFA North American World Cup base camp has been confirmed as Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Korea Football Association said on the 22nd, "The base camp of Hong Myung-bo, who will go to North American World Cup, has been confirmed to be Guadalajara, which is 1,566 meters above sea level."

Earlier, the Korea Football Association selected two training sites in Guadalajara, Mexico, as the first and second candidates for the base camp and submitted them to FIFA, which FIFA accepted.

The place where the national soccer team, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, uses as a training ground is "Chivas Verde Baye" by Clube Deportivo Guadalajara, a Mexican professional football team.

Guadalajara is where South Korea plays the first and second World Cup group games, and the association selected the candidate site by comprehensively considering the local environment in Mexico, the distance traveled to the stadium, and the opinions of athletic physiology experts.

Since then, FIFA has finally confirmed and notified the base camps of 48 participating teams, considering the team with a high draw port, the team with a high number of games in the city, the team with low air travel between the base camp and the venue of the game, and the team with a high FIFA ranking.

South Korea was in Group A of the North American World Cup Group A with the winner of the European qualifying pass D (one of the Czech Republic, Ireland, Denmark, and North Macedonia), as well as host Mexico. They will play the first and second rounds of the European qualifying round as the winner of Pass D, and face Mexico at Akron Stadium (1571 meters above sea level) in Guadalajara, respectively.

Meanwhile, Hong Myung-bo will soon decide the location of the pre-base camp to be trained before entering the Mexican base camp. After that, the departure schedule and the schedule for entering the main base camp will also be confirmed.

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