Eight European players, including Hong Hong Myung-bo Team, Yang Min-hyuk, Kim Min-soo, and Kim Ji-soo, joined Lee Min-ho.

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Eight young European players, including Yang Min-hyuk (20, Coventry City) and Kim Min-soo (20, FC Andora), who were not called by coach Hong Myung-bo during the A-match in March, will join Lee Min-sung.

According to the Korea Football Association on the 17th, eight European players, including Yang Min-hyuk, were included in the call-up training list for the U-23 national soccer team, which will be held at Korea Football Park in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do from the 23rd to the 31st.

Lee Min-sung-ho will hold a closed practice match at Korea Football Park with Japan's U-21 national team and the U.S. U-22 national team at the end of this month, and virtually convened "Choi Jeong-ye" to form the national team with the goal of winning the Asian Games gold medal.

In particular, it is notable that a large number of young European players who failed to join the Hong Myung-bo Team, which will play the 2026 FIFA 2026 FIFA North and Central America World Cup mock test through the A-match warm-up matches against Ivory Coast and Austria this month, headed to Lee Min-sung.

Yang Min-hyuk, who was called up for the match against Bolivia and Ghana in November last year, and Kim Ji-soo (22, Kaiserslautern), who was called by Hong against Brazil and Paraguay in October last year, were called by Lee, not Hong Myung-bo, during the A-match in March.

In addition, Kim Min-soo, who continued to play an active role in Spain's second division and raised the possibility of joining the A national team, Yoon Do-young (20, Dordrecht), Lee Hyun-joo (23, FC Arocar), Park Seung-soo (19, Newcastle United), Lee Young-joon (23, Grashofer) and Kim Myung-joon (20, Genk) will all join the U-23 national team.

Most of the European leagues heading to Lee Min-sung are players who have been virtually excluded from coach Hong Myung-bo's World Cup plan or have recently lost their position. In fact, they have become more focused on the Asian Games gold medal in September than the World Cup.

Meanwhile, coach Lee Min-sung remained fourth at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup in January, but after a meeting of the Korea Football Association's Power Enhancement Committee, he decided to lead only the Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games in September this year, not the 2028 Los Angeles (LA) Olympics.

The head coach of the U-21 national team, who will prepare for the LA Olympics two years later, is undecided. The U-21 national team, which has been made up of players born since 2005, will hold a call-up training at Namhae Sports Park during the same period, led by former leaders of the Korea Football Association, Kim Kyung-ryang, Son Seung-joon and Jung Yoo-seok (GK Coach).

GK: Kim Joon-hong (Suwon Samsung), Lee Seung-hwan (Pohang Steelers), and Han Tae-hee (Daegu FC)

DF: Kim Ji-soo (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Kang Min-joon (Pohang Steelers), Park Kyung-seop (Incheon United), Park Sung-hoon (FC Seoul), Bae Hyun-seo (Gyeongnam FC), Shin Min-ha (Gangwon FC), Lee Hyun-yong (Suwon FC), Choi Seok-hyun (Ulsan HD), Choi Woo-jin (Jeonbuk Hyundai)

MF: Kim Min-soo (FC Andora, Spain), Park Seung-soo (Newcastle United, England), Lee Hyun-joo (FC Aroca, Portugal), Yang Min-hyuk (Coventry City, England), Yoon Do-young (FC Drecht, Netherlands), Kang Sang-yoon (Jeonbuk Hyundai), Park Seung-ho, Seo Jae-min (Iceon United), Son Jung-beom, Hwang Do-yoon (FC Seoul), Cho Joon-hyun (Seoul E-land)

FW: Kim Myung-joon (KRC Genk, Belgium), Lee Young-joon (Grathhofer, Switzerland)

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