"Hong Myung Bo-ho's interview on the controversy over Hong Myung-bo Team's rights." The happening is over... Finalizing the Deletion of Actual Articles

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The untimely controversy over the top flight within the Korean national soccer team ended with happening. The interview article of Joao Arroso, the head coach of the Korean national team, has been deleted, and he is planning to pay attention to media activities in the future.

An official from the Korea Football Association said in Star News on the 7th that "Aroso's interview article in Portugal has been deleted," adding, "We have re-delivered media guidelines to foreign leaders."

Hong Myung-bo Team is about two months away from the 2026 FIFA North-China World Cup. An official added, "As the World Cup approaches, we have made them pay more attention to media activities such as interviews."

Last month, Portuguese media "Bolana Hede" published an interview with head coach Aroso about three months before the North-China U.S. World Cup.

According to the article, head coach Aroso also explained the negotiation process with the Korea Football Association and the reason for Hong Myung-bo Team's three-back tactics when he joined Hong Myung-bo Team in August 2024.

The problem was a concrete expression of the division of roles. Aroso's remarks were translated into Korean, drawing controversy. According to the media, head coach Aroso said, "The Korea Football Association wanted a Korean coach to take charge of the team's face and a European coach to oversee training and games." Here, the word "face" led to the suspicion that Hong Myung-bo was actually the national team's "face wife."

In particular, head coach Aroso said, "What the Korea Football Association expected from me was a trainer de campo," and added, "Coach Hong Myung-bo is a central figure in the project, but the association wanted someone to actually organize training and plan the game."

However, the word "face" in the original interview is interpreted as "cara" and "representative" in actual meaning. The "trinador de campo" that head coach Aroso expressed about him is a field coach rather than a practical coach.

As the content spread rapidly in Korea and became controversial, Chief Coach Aroso said on his personal social network service (SNS) on the 5th, "It is an honor to be with the Korean national team under the direction of Coach Hong Myung-bo. Coach Hong Myung-bo is a leader with unusual capabilities and commitment, he said. "We are doing our best to support the coach for the World Cup performance."

An official from the Korea Football Association also explained, "Aroso, the head coach, did not make controversial expressions," adding, "It was a misunderstanding while explaining the role of the staff in the national team."

However, in the interview, Chief Coach Aroso said about Hong Myung-bo Team's three-back change after the finalization of the 2026 FIFA North and Central America World Cup finals, "South Korea will be difficult to hold out by using four-backs against strong World Cup teams," adding, "After discussions with coach Hong Myung-bo, we decided to use a 3-4-3 formation in which we have five defense players when defending."

The Korea Football Association is expected to do its best to prevent internal solidarity from being hindered at a sensitive time ahead of the World Cup finals. An official from the association stressed, "As the World Cup approaches, the national team will pay more attention to prevent unnecessary misunderstandings in external media activities such as interviews in the future."

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