North Korea's Powerhouse Women Footballers Are in Seoul to Fight for Title
The first North Korean athletes to visit the South since 2018 will face Tokyo Verdy Beleza after a hard-fought semi-final win.
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More than 5,000 people watched North Korea's Naegohyang Women's Football Club beat South Korea's Suwon FC Women 2-1 at Suwon Stadium in Seoul on Wednesday night to reach the final of the AFC Women's Champions League, the BBC reports. The North Korean team travelled to the South for the first time since 2018. They were cheered on by hundreds of South Koreans, thanks to an NGO that recruited supporters. Naegohyang's participation is particularly n…
After Forbidding Them from Holding the Taegeukgi... North Korea's Naegohyang Faces Tokyo in 1.5 Billion Won Prize Final → Controversial Joint Cheering Squad Appears Again OSEN = Reporter Jung Seung-woo The North Korean Naegohyang Women's Football Club now has only one match left to clinch the championship. Their opponent is Tokyo Verdy Beleza, a powerhouse in Japanese women's football. The title of Asia's best is at stake.
North Korean women deny they play ‘rough’ ahead of Asian Champions League final
The coach of the first North Korean sports team to visit the South in eight years said his players were not “rough” as they prepared for Saturday’s Asian Women’s Champions League final. Naegohyang Women’s FC take on Japan’s Tokyo Verdy Beleza in the South Korean city of Suwon, having beaten Suwon FC Women in the semi-finals at the same stadium earlier this week. The rare North-South semi-final was a hard-fought match played in a fair spirit with…
North Korea's chance to win $1 million soccer prize may come with caveats
A North Korean soccer club’s victory in a rare inter-Korean match earlier this week set the stage for a shot at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Champions League final, a game that can fuel the country’s meteoric rise in the sport and bestow international prestige to the reclusive country. But for Naegohyang Women’s FC […]
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