Hong Myung-bo Team Reunite to Announce List of March's Ivory Coast-Austria Match on 16th

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The Korean national soccer team, which is preparing for the 2026 FIFA 2026 FIFA North and Central America World Cup, will convene for the first time this year. It has been about four months since November last year.

The Korea Football Association announced on the 5th that head coach Hong Myung-bo will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. on the 16th at Korea Football Park in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, and announce the list of Ivory Coast and Austria.

Hong Myung-bo Team will play a neutral warm-up match against Ivory Coast at 11 p.m. on the 28th (Korea Standard Time) in London, England, and an away warm-up match against Austria and Europe at 3:45 a.m. on the 1st of next month in Vienna, Austria.

It is the first time in two and a half years that the Korean national team has been on an away trip to Europe since an away trip to Wales in September 2023. Korea (22nd) is higher than Austria (24th) and Ivory Coast (37th).

Compared to Japan's away warm-up match against fourth-ranked England in FIFA at Wembley Stadium in London during the same period, and the remaining opponent is also an away warm-up match in Scotland, they are somewhat disappointing.

Most of the European strong teams struggled to find their opponents in the warm-up match because they had already confirmed their opponents in the warm-up match or planned to move to other continents such as North and Central America rather than Europe, and eventually, South Korea went on an away trip to Europe for the first time in a long time and played warm-up matches against teams with lower FIFA rankings in both warm-up matches.

Ivory Coast is meaningful compared to South Africa in the same group as South Korea in 2026 FIFA North and Central America World Cup, and Austria is meaningful compared to the winner of the UEFA playoff pass D (Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland, and North Macedonia).

After the A match in March, coach Hong Myung-bo will hold only one or two more warm-up matches and play in the World Cup finals, so coach Hong Myung-bo will convene the best and begin to strengthen his organizational power in earnest.

Key resources such as national team captain Son Heung-min (Los Angeles FC), Oh Hyun-kyu (Besikta City), Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain), Kim Min-jae (Bayern Munich), Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton) and Hwang In-beom (Feyenoord) are expected to be the main players.

However, coach Hong Myung-bo's biggest concern is how to change the midfield combination as Park Yong-woo (Al Ain) and Park Yong-woo (Korpakan) are unable to play in the World Cup due to injuries.

After the announcement of the list, Hong Myung-bo Team will be called up to Incheon International Airport on the 23rd without a domestic call-up and immediately leave for the UK. Players who play abroad join locally.

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