{"id":10772,"date":"2018-02-03T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2018-02-03T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:31:10","slug":"lee-yong-must-recover-soon-2018-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/03\/lee-yong-must-recover-soon-2018-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Yong Must Recover Soon for 2018 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jeongho Seo, Football Tribe Korea<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The 31-year-old made a debut at Ulsan Hyundai, where he recorded one goal and 14 assists in 143 games until he joined the military team Sangju Sangmu. The full-back was one of the key members when Ulsan clinched an ACL title in 2012.<\/p>\n

He also helped Vietnam’s current head coach Park Hang-seo to lead Sangmu to achieve promotion in 2015 as well as an\u00a0entrance into the top split in 2016. That was when he showed his free-kick skills, becoming the team’s main free-kick taker.<\/p>\n

After his military service was over, Lee headed to Jeonbuk Hyundai. It’s a known fact that Jeonbuk’s head coach Choi Kang-hee had wanted him for a long time.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0a sports hernia didn’t let him shine through; he appeared in 8 matches only and missed all the international matches subsequently.<\/p>\n

The Korea national team was more affected than the 2017 K-League Classic champion.<\/p>\n

The Korea national team has been having a problem finding the right fullback. In the left wing, Kim Jin-su and Kim Min-woo have put in a decent performance. Kim Min-woo’s appearance against Japan during the EAFF E-1 Championship especially was brilliant.<\/p>\n

However, the right full-back has not yet been settled. Choi Chul-soon and Ko Yo-han have been given chances but both have their weaknesses. While Ko is more suitable for a three-back formation, as he is not a typical, traditional right full-back,\u00a0Choi brings stability to Taeguk Warrior’s defense, but his contribution to attack is limited, especially due to his inaccurate crosses.<\/p>\n

Lee Yong, on the other hand, can deliver accurate crosses, which often starts the counter-attack. His full recovery can solve the national team’s problem ahead of 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jeongho Seo, Football Tribe Korea The 31-year-old made a debut at Ulsan Hyundai, where he recorded one goal and 14 assists in 143 games until he joined the military team Sangju Sangmu. The full-back was one of the key members when Ulsan clinched an ACL title in 2012. He also helped Vietnam’s current head coach Park Hang-seo to lead Sangmu to achieve promotion in 2015 as well as an\u00a0entrance into the top split in 2016. That was when he showed his free-kick skills, becoming the team’s main free-kick taker. After his military service was over, Lee headed to Jeonbuk Hyundai. It’s a known fact that Jeonbuk’s head coach Choi … Continue reading “Lee Yong Must Recover Soon for 2018 World Cup”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":10774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,867],"tags":[637,209,1203,70],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","category-korea","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-jeonbuk-hyundai","tag-lee-yong","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}