KFA Appoints Coach Park Yoon-jung to the U-20 Women's National Team

 The youngest head of the Korean national team by age was born.

The Korea Football Association announced on the 3rd that it appointed Park Yoon-jung, the current coach of the women's national team, as the head coach of the women's under-20 U-20 national team.

Coach Park became the third female national team coach by age after Hwang In-sun former U-20 national team and Kim Eun-jung current U-17 national team. She was also born in 1989 at the youngest age of 34, and became the head coach of the women's national team at all levels.

Coach Park began his leadership career as a coach at Yeoju University in 2016 after playing for Seoul City Hall in the WK League, Chungbuk Sports Toto currently Sejong Sports Toto, and Albirex Niigata in Japan. After serving as a coach at Pohang Girls' High School, his alma mater, he served as a full-time leader of the Korea Football Association from 2019. Since then, she has coached the women's U-17 and U-20 national teams and experienced the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in 2022.

Since December last year, he has coached the women's A team led by head coach Colin Bell and participated in the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Coach Park will serve as both the coach of the U-20 national team and the coach of the A national team.

With the appointment of coach Park, the women's U-20 national team will move forward with the goal of participating in the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia in September next year. In order to participate in the World Cup, she must finish in the top three at the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup in Uzbekistan in March next year. The association said, "Former leaders Ko Hyun-bok, goalkeeper coach Kim Dae-hwan, and physical coach Lee Geo-sung will assist coach Park." 토토사이트

Meanwhile, the women's U-20 national team will hold its first convocation training at the Paju National Training Center NFC from the 6th to the 9th. Thirty-one players under the age of 19 were selected for the first convocation list, including Bae Ye-bin Wideok University, who was on the final list for the 2023 Women's World Cup, and Kim Se-yeon Chungju Yeseong Girls' High School, who recently participated in the preliminary round for the Paris Olympics.

After that, the squad will be reduced to 22 players on the 24th, and off-season training will be held in Uzbekistan until December 4. Two friendly matches will be played against Uzbekistan's women's U-20 team on November 30 and December 3.