South Korea coach Colin Bell tore into the nation’s soccer system, saying it was not making ready gamers nicely sufficient to compete on the largest stage after a second straight defeat left the facet on the point of a Women’s World Cup exit on Sunday.
After dropping to Colombia within the group opener, South Korea was upset 1-0 by debutants Morocco which is 55 locations beneath it within the girls’s rankings.
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The Englishman took over the South Korean staff in 2019 and guided it to a runners-up end on the Asian Cup final yr.
But he mentioned the squad had not performed themselves justice on the World Cup whereas pinpointing points which wanted to be addressed.
“Our game is too slow. In Korea, there is no intensity or not enough intensity. The training sessions are too long and are not intense,” a furious Bell informed reporters.
“I have said this now for four years. I will continue to say it until everybody’s sick of hearing it and we’ll maybe, hopefully change. Because if you don’t change, you will stand still and not progress.”
Bell, who labored for years in German soccer, highlighted the adjustments the European nation’s soccer affiliation made in 2006 to make them world champions within the males’s recreation in 2014 and recommended the Korean FA ought to take drastic steps as nicely.
Bell added that Korean gamers usually are not mentally ready as a league system with out relegation doesn’t give them a psychological edge when the stakes are excessive.
Losing and ending within the backside of the desk has no penalties within the WK League the place a lot of the squad plies their commerce, he added.
“The playoff system for me, personally, is a system that is nonsensical and doesn’t belong in football. You want to win, finish first. You finish last or second last, you get relegated – this is competition,” he mentioned.
“This is the reality, the World Cup is the reality. We have the best players, the best teams, the best coaches on view. If you lose, it hurts. If you lose, you get knocked out. That’s the reality and that’s happened to us.
“That’s just more than a slap in the face and we’ve got to wake up to the reality of life. Life is sometimes difficult, life is sometimes tough. You have to live in reality, you can’t live in a dream world.”
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com