“Don’t get sick, Heungmin. Get married late”…Klinsmann-ho quenches with fans’ support
Klinsmann conducted training at Paju NFC on the 10th ahead of warm-up matches with Tunisia (Seoul) on the 13th and Vietnam (Suwon) on the 17th. In the training, 24 entries, including Son Heung-min (Tottenham) and Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), all came to the ground as a whole.
The training was conducted as “PowerAid Fan Open Training” and was held in front of 300 fans who recruited on a first-come, first-served basis. An official from the Korea Football Association (KFA) said, “As soon as we started recruiting, 300 people kicked right away.”
Fans watched the players closely with witty phrases such as “Congratulations Lee Kang-in,” “Seol Young-woo is Prince,” and “Don’t get sick, Heung-min, get married late.”
As the players began to warm up, fans shouted the names of Lee Kang-in (PSG), Son Heung-min (Tottenham), and Seol Young-woo (Ulsan), and the atmosphere of the training site was as hot as the stadium where the A match was held.
After the full-fledged training began, the players were unable to do it close to the fans because they were focusing on training, and Son Heung-min showed his sense.
Son Heung-min, who was excluded from the team’s training and trained individually, such as bicycles and jogging, moved to the front of the stand where fans gathered and jogged, waving his hands or responding with a “hand heart” whenever the fans called his name to delight the fans.
After about 1 hour and 10 minutes of training, the players took a group photo in front of the fans, and all 24 people gave signed white tiger dolls to the fans through a lottery. Seol Young-woo, Son Heung-min, Jung Woo-young (Stuttgart) and Oh Hyun-kyu (Celtic) were present at the drawing ceremony. 스포츠토토
Four months after the two consecutive A matches in June, the national team players with domestic fans looked bright with fans’ support.
“I was happy to meet only Asians at the stadium (because I was playing on the Danish stage). I’m more grateful and happy to meet our fans this time,” he said with a big smile. Hwang Hee-chan also said, “The time with the fans is always precious.”