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Jeonbuk Hyundai of the K League 1 and Incheon United, who went on a winter training trip to Spain side by side, will play practice games against Major League Soccer (MLS) teams in the United States.
According to the MLS Secretariat on the 28th (Korea Standard Time), Jeonbuk will face Toronto FC at 10 p.m. on the 31st and play a practice game against Vancouver Whitecaps FC at 11 p.m. on the 4th of next month.
On the contrary, Incheon will first play a closed practice game against Toronto at midnight on the 28th and then face Vancouver at 10 p.m. on the 31st.
Toronto ranked 12th out of 15 MLS Eastern Conference teams last season, and Vancouver ranked 2nd out of 15 Western Conference teams, respectively.
However, the contents or results of the practice game will not be announced separately at the club level.
Earlier, the Incheon club said, "We will not notify the schedule, opponent, and results of all practice games according to the regulations related to the Korea Football Association and the Asian Football Confederation."
Jeonbuk and Incheon are training for winter in Malaga, Andalusia, Spain. Incheon will continue training until the 8th of next month and Jeonbuk will continue training until the 14th.
Both teams held off-season training in Thailand last year, but this year changed the training site to Spain. Jeonbuk has headed to Spain for the first time in three years since 2023, and Incheon is conducting winter training in Europe for the first time in 16 years.
The Incheon club, which has been conducting off-season training mainly in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, has turned to Europe considering that it is difficult to find a suitable practice match in Southeast Asia. Due to the rapid increase in the cost of off-season training in Thailand, there is no significant difference in budget for off-season training in Europe.
Among the 12 K League 1 teams this season, four teams went to Europe for winter training, including Daejeon Hana Citizen (Murcia in Spain) and Gangwon FC (Antalya in Turkiye), in addition to Jeonbuk and Incheon.
In addition, Gwangju FC, Bucheon FC, and FC Anyang are in Thailand, Pohang Steelers are in Indonesia, Ulsan HD is in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and FC Seoul is in Hainan, China, to prepare for the new season.
Jeju SK will conduct training in Jeju and head to Kagoshima, Japan on the 26th. Gimcheon Sangmu is the only one to hold winter training in Korea, including Namhae and Mokpo.
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