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The Korean national soccer team will face China in the second match of Group C of the 2026 FIFA Asian region second qualifying round at the Shenzhen Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, on the 21st.

Coach Jürgen Klinsmann and the national soccer team, who arrived in China on the 19th, are showing a strong will to win the game against China. In fact, Korea is showing absolute strength against China.


China's coach Aleksandar Jankovic and defender Zhang Linfeng, and Korea's coach Jurgen Klinsmann and Kim Min-jae attended the official press conference held on the 20th.

Coach Jankovic has been working in Chinese soccer since 2018. From 2018 to 2019, he coached the China under-19 national team, and from 2019 to 2021, he coached the under-20 national team.

In addition, Coach Jankovic, who served as the head coach of the under-23 national team from 2021 to 2023, suddenly recently became the coach of the China A team.

In the first group match against Thailand held on the 16th, China came from behind to win 2-1. So, the atmosphere is good.

In the meantime, Coach Jankovic received poor reviews. It was a crisis. However, he succeeded in turning the atmosphere around by winning the match against Thailand.

The enthusiasm for Chinese soccer has revived to some extent, to the extent that all 40,000 tickets for the Korean game, which had not been sold before the Thailand game, were sold out immediately.

In fact, a huge number of reporters gathered at the Universiade Sports Center where the game was held that day. As many Korean reporters (11) were unable to attend due to a lack of reporting by the Chinese authorities, in fact, more than 95% were Chinese reporters.

China's 'Zhibo.com' emphasized, "A total of 250 reporters, including Chinese and Korean reporters, applied to watch the game. At the press conference held the day before, more than half of the reporters, including 11 Korean reporters, watched the press conference."

However, Korea is no different from China’s Cryptostone. Across friendly matches and international matches, Korea has the absolute advantage with 27 wins, 12 draws, and 6 losses. Even the four losses occurred before 1986, including a 2-3 friendly loss on January 2, 1949, a 0-2 loss in 1983, a 0-1 loss in 1984, and a 1-2 loss in 1986.

Since then, Korea, which had been undefeated in 27 games against China, lost 0-3 in the 2010 East Asian Cup and 0-1 in the third qualifying round of the 2017 World Cup.

After losing in the World Cup qualifiers, Korea played against China four times and recorded 3 wins and 1 loss (2-2, 2-0 wins, 1-0 wins, 3-0 wins). However, since the East Asian Cup has 3 games, this is the first time since the 3rd round of the group stage of the 2019 Asian Cup (2-0 win) that the full members have played against each other.

Attention is being paid to whether Chinese soccer, which is desperately trying to capitalize on its soccer fever with its victory over Thailand, and play against Korea, will be able to overcome the barrier called Korea.

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