#when heungmin played as a fullback? that one time

[heungmins]

nothing pisses me off more than managers taking a player that is perfectly good where they are and then just randomly playing them out of position

[whitehartlane]

hello hello! how have you been? i hope you're doing alright and are having a good day <3

i'm buzzing at having secured tickets for my national team's fifa qualifying match against south korea in june! i'll be attending with my mum (who's just there to watch sonny LMAO) and i'm hoping for a good match, despite us having a close to non-zero chance of beating south korea.

i admit my knowledge of the south korea nt isn't great (the only players i know of/follow are sonny, lee kang-in, kim min-jae and cho gue-sung) so as the south korea national team expert, who are others to watch/your faves? thanks and COYS - 💙

hello hello 💙 anon!!! i’m doing okay, hope you’re well! and oh my god i’m SO jelly, that sounds like so much fun! so glad you got tickets to go see the lads and your mum’s a real one for wanting to go just to see sonny. i’m sure it’ll be a good match 🫶🏾

ah thank you so much for thinking of me as an expert on sknt footy that’s so sweet 😭🥺 i wouldn’t say that’s true but i know enough to answer your question! so as for other players on the nt (you mentioned in your other ask you know heechan so i’ll leave him out), there are a lot that are super fun to watch! i’m not sure who’s going to get called up since we’re between managers at the moment but going off of previous lineups i’d keep an eye out for:

lee jaesung (31, mainz, CAM/RW)

jaesung has been a cornerstone of the nt for ages, he’s the same age as sonny and the two of them link up very well. normally jaesung plays in the attacking midfielder role and that’s where he functions best in the nt, sometimes they try to shoehorn him onto the wing but that normally doesn’t get the best out of him. he’s been described as having an engine similar to park jisung. he just runs and runs and runs!

seol youngwoo (25, ulsan hyundai, LB/RB)

youngwoo is fairly young and has just got his first run out in the nt over the past year and he’s been doing pretty well! he’s very well regarded in both the k league and now in the world of football data outside the k league as well (there are rumours of prem clubs being in for him). he’s a good modern fullback and does well to support attacking play as well! also he’s the one who said on a tv show that he wrote ‘i want to play with son heungmin’ in his childhood diary, which is everything. wouldn’t be surprised to see this kid in europe sooner rather than later.

paik seungho (27, birmingham city, CM/CDM)

oh, seungho. i don’t know if he’s going to get called up honestly especially considering birmingham city also got relegated this season to league one. there’s a good player in there somewhere, he’s one of our ones who went to spain, like kangin and lee seungwoo, but then he lost his way a bit. he’s been good for the nt whenever he’s appeared for it, most notably scoring the consolation goal against brazil in the wc. i suppose we’ll see!

jeong wooyeong (24, vfb stuttgart, FW)

wooyeong has had an interesting season! he was the top goalscorer in the asian games last season but scored his first goal for stuttgart just a few days ago when bayern played them. there’s potential there, i think, he just needs time and a proper manager. he plays all along the front!

one wild card long shot:

eom jisung (21, gwangju, FW)

i don’t know if they’ll call jisung up but he does already have one appearance for the nt i believe, as well as one goal. there’s a lot of whispers in korean football circles about this kid being ‘the next son heungmin’ and while i a) don’t want to put that pressure on him and b) don’t think anyone could technically come close to the impact sonny’s had on the game, there are aspects to jisung’s game that remind me of sonny. he doesn’t have that same off the ball movement and speed, as he’s admitted himself and also said he wants to learn from sonny, but the way he runs and shoots the ball with either foot is very reminiscent of him. i’d keep the name in your memory, maybe he’ll come good, maybe he won’t. but he’s fun to watch!

anyway, these are just a few players!! i’m hoping for more ‘unknown’ players to be called up from the k league but i left those out mostly since i’m not sure who’s actually going to be on the list. once we get the callups for the qualifiers shoot me an ask and i can talk about who to keep an eye on the most from the list!! hope this helped somewhat have a lovely day 💙💙💙