North Korea Wins U-17 Women's World Cup 'Tongsan 3rd Trophy'...Full-length Golden Ball
Nov 04, 2024
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North Korea won the 2024 U-17 Women's World Cup final against Spain at Estadio Olimpico Felix Sanchez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on the 4th (Korea time). North Korea laughed 4-3 in the penalty shootout after the regular season ended 1-1. With the victory, North Korea lifted its third championship trophy in eight years since the 2016 Jordan Games. After retaking the championship at the U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia in September for the first time in eight years, North Korea is making an amazing move to sweep the tournament by age until winning the U-17 World Cup.
North Korea, which defeated the United States 1-0 in the semifinals, faced Spain in the final, which defeated England 3-0. It was an enemy. North Korea was weak on Spain. He lost 0-1 in the third place match at the 2010 Trinidad and Tobago tournament, and also knelt after a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Uruguay tournament. The beginning was unsettling. I was shaken by the opponent's strong offensive. In the end, he scored the first goal in the 16th minute of the second half. When Pau Comendador poked a low cross from the left side, Segura, who rushed into the opposite goal, lightly pushed it with his left foot to shake the net.
However, North Korea immediately put the game to square one. In this scene, there was also a scene where he scored three times. In the 19th minute of the second half, Ro Woon-hyang's long pass broke down the Spanish defense line at once, and Jeon Jeon Il-cheong, who ran from the left side to the center, beat the goalkeeper and cut the post with a right foot shot. Immediately afterwards, the judges conducted VAR. It was because of the offside of the previous day's office. North Korea enjoyed the joy only then, as Jeon Il-cheong's toes were found to be behind Spain's defense by a slight difference.
Then, the Spanish bench applied for VAR over North Korea's foul in the previous ball competition. The referee acknowledged North Korea's score, believing that there was no problem in this scene, and North Korea high-fived and smiled a third time.
Both teams, who failed to score additional points, decided on the winner of the trophy with a penalty shootout. With the second kicker side by side blocked by the goalkeeper, the game was decided on the third kicker. While Spanish kicker Comendador's shot went to the left of the net, Ro Woonhyang made it clean. Afterwards, North Korea shook the net cleanly without missing out and shed tears of joy with a 4-3 victory in the penalty shootout.
In a FIFA interview after the match, Park Joo-kyung said, `I want to tell my dear father, Marshal Kim Jong-un, first of all good news. I can only cry because I'm happy and happy." Song Sung-kwon, the coach of the North Korean national team, also beat Spain, the strongest team in Europe. I'm proud that the strongest team in Asia became the strongest team in the world," he said with emotion.
Jeon Jeon Jeon-cheong won the Golden Ball, which is equivalent to the MVP award of the competition. Jeon Jeon Won-cheong scored six goals at the U-17 Asian Cup to become the top scorer, and then held the Golden Ball in his arms at the World Cup.
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