He even wrote a 'record of humiliation' in the Hong Myung-bo Team, the 'all defeat' of the two consecutive A-match warm-up matches in eight years.

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Hong Myung-bo Team, which is preparing for the 2026 FIFA 2026 FIFA North and Central America World Cup, finished the two consecutive A matches in March with a 'defeat'. This is the first time since 2018 that the national soccer team has lost all two games during the A-match period.

South Korea, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, lost 0-1 to Austria in the A-match warm-up match held at Ernst Havel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, at 3:45 a.m. on the 1st (Korea time). South Korea is ranked 22nd and Austria 24th in the FIFA rankings.

South Korea, which lost 0-4 in its first warm-up match in March against Ivory Coast in Miltonkins, England, on the 28th of last month, finished the two warm-up matches in Europe with two losses, zero points and five runs.

Coach Hong Myung-bo, who lost four runs while taking out a three-back tactic in the last match against Ivory Coast, only changed the composition of the players without any change in tactics in the match against Austria. However, he missed several decisive opportunities and eventually bowed his head early in the second half, losing a new winning goal whose defense collapsed again.

With the defeat, Hong Myung-bo Team also wrote a humiliating record of losing both A matches. The second straight A match itself was the first since the 2023 Uruguay-Peru match under former coach Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany), but at that time, it was the result of losing to Peru in the first warm-up match in June after losing to Uruguay in March.

It is the first time since 2018 that one national team has lost both consecutive games. South Korea, led by head coach Shin Tae-yong at the time, went on an expedition to Europe ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where they were defeated by Northern Ireland and Poland one after another.

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