The tragedy of the Asian Cup has not won in 64 years, and South Korea regrets not to qualify for the final!
The 2024 Asian Football Championship kicked off in Beijing in the early morning of February 7. South Korea's Taiji Tigers lost 0-8 to Jordan and finally 0-0 to Jordan, thus losing their qualification to the World Cup. It is a real disappointment that South Korea has not won the World Cup in 64 years since winning the World Cup in 1960. Indeed, from 1976 to the present, after 12 Asian championships, the astonishing results of the Korean national football team can be said to be comparable.
Jordan are ranked 87th in the global rankings, eight behind China's national team, and have failed to score a single goal in the group stage. However, in the group stage, they narrowly defeated South Korea, Iraq 3-2 in the quarter-finals, and Tajikistan 1-0 in the four-of-16 match, and the strength of this team cannot be underestimated. Despite their abundance of talent, South Korea had a terrible run of talent in this tournament and it was all a matter of luck to reach the semi-finals. It seems that the good luck of this game has run out.
From the start of the match, South Korea took the initiative in the game, and Jordan posed a great threat to their opponents with fierce attacks and long-range attacks. In the 32nd minute, Lee Jae-sung headed the ball over the post and missed a good chance to equalise. The first half ended 0-0. In the second half, Jordan showed their superiority in goals. Jordan made a beautiful defence in the 53rd minute, followed by a beautiful goal from Nemat to give Jordan a 1-0 victory. In the 66th minute, Jordan's midfielder Tamari broke through to the edge of the penalty area after getting a pass, and he broke through Cho Hyun-woo's ten fingers with a long-range shot to help Jordan win.
In this game, South Korea's Son Heung-min had five shots out of eight, but none of them had a shot on goal and none of them hit the target, and compared to Jordan's 17 with seven shots on target, they were not wronged. In fact, in the group stage, they finally defeated Saudi Arabia and Australia, thinking that they had already qualified for the championship, but they did not expect that they would beat Jordan to the ground with 99.8 million **.
This brings South Korea's journey to the 2024 Asian Cup in Qatar comes to an end. It's a shame that they haven't won a championship in 64 years. In 1956, the World Championships were held in South Korea, and South Korea won its first two tournaments. But since then, they have not stood at the top of Asia. You must know that in 1976, Chinese football entered the Asian Cup for the first time, and at that time the two teams were the top teams today, but there was a big gap in level. However, in the past 48 years, in 12 Asian Games, South Korea has not had any advantage over China.
In 1976, the national football team reached the Asian Championship for the first time and reached the final round of 11 seasons with a third-place finish, Singapore in 1984 and the Hometown Asian Championship in 2004. In the last 12 Asian Championships, they have won two second places (1984 and 2004), two third places (1976 and 1992), two fourth places (1988, 2000), three eighth places (1996, 2015, 2019), three groups (1980, 2011, 2019), and three groups eliminated.
In contrast, South Korea finished second twice in 1980, 2015, third in 2000, third in 2007, third in 2011, third in 1996 (1996, 2004, 2019), eight times (1996, 2004, 2019), and eliminated in the team competition for the first time in 1984. This Asian Championship reached the semi-finals. In addition, South Korea was kicked out of the field in the 1984 and 1992 Asian qualifiers.
Judging from the above record, since 1976, South Korea has missed the World Cup twice in a row, and the results are not as good as the national football team, although they are both recognized superstars in Asia, but when it comes to the Asian Cup, they are like children.