Sri Lanka playing the first match in the group stage against North Korea today in Kathmandu , Nepal.
North Korea won 4-0 after leading 3-0 by HT.
Nepal won 1-0 against Afghanistan in the other match today.
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3 days ago
North Korea is in a different league...
ReplyDeleten korea play with nepal and sri lanka will playwith Afghanistan but i think Afghanistan will will win from sri lanka and n korea win from nepal :)
ReplyDeletenepals gonna rule..
ReplyDeletenorth korea shouldnt be in the challenege cup. but i think they play with team B.
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea play in the Challenge Cup because its association doesn't meet the AFC's criteria (domestic league and all) but whatever, i agree that AFC shouldn't let them join anymore since their national team is way beyond Challenge Cup level.
ReplyDeleteWell but i checked the NKorean roster and yes you're right. They look like just an U-23 team.
North Korea played in the World Cup.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1966 World Cup, North Korea beat the mighty Italy.
ReplyDeleteWhy are these North Koreans so good at football? Are they not supposed to be hungry all the time? What kind of training do they get? Then I found something that troubled me and I'm quoting the source:
ReplyDelete"Players ‘who participated in the World Cup were subjected to a session of harsh ideological criticism’, a Chinese businessman told South Korean media.
Experts on North Korea say the players actually got off rather lightly. ‘In the past, North Korean athletes who performed badly were sent to prison camps,’ one intelligence source said."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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ReplyDeleteplease check your source. if possible get a north korean source. your UK source is not reliable. I have actually read but i cant quote right now that n.korean players are spoiled. i mean they get to wear branded soccer boots right, while playing for a communist country?? jong tae se, their striker, was playing in japan and now in germany. why would you think he'd pick n.korea if he won't be treated well?
also, a lot of south koreans like the idea that north korea will join them in 2010's world cup. the beef between the 2 koreas is very political but i think the citizens of both countries wouldn't like to fight each other.
http://sangesh.com.np/blog/?p=511 some picture from the match, yeah nepal showed that they are capable to paly with world cup players
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