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Ra Un-Sim: “Siamo qui per vincere l’oro”

Most of North Korea’s 260 athletes and officials have arrived in the South to participate in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, for which the opening ceremony will be held tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Asiad Main Stadium.

With the goal of finishing in the top 10 by claiming more than 10 gold medals, the North sent its first group of 94 Olympic committee officials and athletes including football players and rowers earlier this month. A second group of 87 people including gymnasts and shooters, led by Pyongyang’s Olympic committee chief Kim Young-hoon, arrived Tuesday night.

More groups have yet to arrive to round out the total of 260 North Koreans who will be at the Incheon event, where the country will compete in 14 sports including football, weight lifting, shooting, judo, wrestling, table tennis and archery.

The North has shown its strength as an Asian sporting nation, taking fourth place three times at the Asian Games since its first appearance in 1974 in Teheran. But the country hasn’t impressed in the past decade, placing ninth in 2002 in Busan, 16th in 2006 in Doha, and 12th in the 2010 Guangzhou Games. But since their new leader Kim Jong-un began ruling the nation in 2012, the North has announced a series of plans to regain its sports competitiveness and wants to use the Incheon Asian Games to show the outside the world that it’s headed in the right direction.

And the North is off to a fine start. The men’s football team crushed China 3-0 on Monday and the women’s football team overpowered Vietnam 5-0 on Tuesday. The women’s team is one of the strongest gold medal contenders along with South Korea and China. The North didn’t even use the leading scorer, Huh Eun-byul, at last year’s East Asian Cup tournament until the 73rd minute. The women’s team won gold in the 2002 and 2006 Asian Games and has recently completed a generational shift to assemble a squad with an average age of 21.5 years.

“We’re here to win a gold medal,” said the North Korean men’s football team coach, Yun Jung-su. “We have prepared well for the event and will show our best performance during the event.”

The North is expected to win big in weight lifting. The team won three gold and one bronze in weight lifting in the 2012 London Olympics. Their star lifters are Om Yun-chol and Kim Un-guk in men’s weight lifting, and Rim Jong-sim and Ryang Chun-hwa in the women’s event.

Gymnast Ri Se-gwang will compete for a gold medal in the men’s vault against the South’s Yang Hak-seon, the 2010 London Olympics gold medalist. The team also wants to continue its success in women’s judo, in which the North claimed a gold and a bronze in London. Female marathoner Kim Kum-ok, the winner of last year’s Asian Marathon Championship, will race toward a golden victory as well.

Yesterday, North Korean athletes in football, swimming, gymnastics, shooting, weight lifting and rowing started training at Incheon, but the North requested it be closed to the public.

BY KWON SANG-SOO [sakwon80@joongang.co.kr]

RPDC – Pakistan 2-0

Un gol per tempo e la Corea chiude la pratica qualificazione assicurandosi il primo posto nel girone. Contro i pakistani è gara semplice, resa ancora più agevole dall’espulsione al 40esimo di Mansoor, per doppia ammonizione. Proprio il secondo fallo del centrocampista pakistano, con un mani in area ha causato il rigore realizzato da So Kyong-Jin. Nella ripresa il raddoppio è messo a segno da Jong Il-Gwan.

Altri risultati seconda giornata:
Gruppo A
Malesia – Laos 4-0
Sud Corea – Arabia Saudita 1-0

Gruppo B
Hong Kong – Afghanistan 2-1
Uzbekistan – Bangladesh 3-0

Gruppo C
Palestina – Tajikistan 2-1
Oman – Singapore 3-3

Gruppo D
Kuwait – Nepal 5-0
Giappone – Iran 1-3

Gruppo E
Maldive – Indonesaia 0-4
Tailandia – Timor Est 3-0

Gruppo G
Giordania – Emirati Arabi 1-0

Gruppo H
Kyrgyzistan – Iran 1-1

Agli ottavi la RPDC inconterà la seconda del girone E, una sfida che coinvolge Indonesia e Tailandia. Gli indonesiani hanno una differenza reti migliore (+11 contro +6) e all’ultima giornata (il 22 settembre) ci sarà lo scontro diretto

Giochi Asiatici: partono forte anche le ragazze

Buona la prima anche per la nazionale femminile, che schianta 5-0 il Vietnam, ipotecando il passaggio del turno (girone a 3 squadre). Le reti sono state messe a segno da Kim Un-Ju, Jong Yu-Ri, Ri Yeng-Yong e Kim Yun-Mi con una doppietta.
Il 20 settembre si le ragazze scenderanno nuovamente in campo contro Hong Kong.

Altri risultati:
Gruppo A
India-Maldive 15-0
SudCorea-Tailandia 5-0

Gruppo B:
Giordania – Taipei 2-2
Giappone – Cina 0-0

Giochi Asiatici: RPDC – Cina 3-0!

Ottima la prima. Squadra quadrata, ottimamente messa in campo, a tratti spettacolare con una serie di azioni di prima veramente interessanti. E la Cina è schiantata per 3-0, vittoria che ipoteca il passaggio del turno. Basterà non perdere contro la cenerentola Pakistan fra tre giorni per godersi poi otto giorni di riposo.
La Corea parte subito forte, con un Jong Il-Gwan in stato di grazia.
Il vantaggio è siglato da Sin Hyon-Jin con un bel diagonale al decimo. Il raddoppio è di So Kyong-Jin al 48′ e Ri Hyok-Chol chiude la gara al 59′ al termine di una straordinaria azione con cinque tocchi di prima.

Sostituzioni: Jo Kwang al 61′ per Ri Hyok-Chol; Kim Ju-Song al 76′ per So Hyon-Uk; Kim Yong-Il all’81’ per Yun Il-Gwan.

Altri risultati della prima giornata:
Girone A
Arabia Saudita – Laos 3-0
SudCorea – Malesia 3-0

Girone B:
Bangladesh – Afghanistan 1-0
Uzbekistan – Hong Kong

Girone C:
Singapore – Tajikistan 0-1
Oman – Palestina 0-2

Girone D:
Iraq – Nepal 4-0
Giappone – Kuwait 4-1

Girone E:
Timor Est – Indonesia 0-7
Tailandia – Maldive

Girone G
Emirati Arabi – India 5-0
Giordania riposa

Girone H:
Iran – Vietnam 1-4
Kyrgyzstan riposa
NB: Agli ottavi la vincente del gruppo F giocherà contro la seconda del gruppo E e viceversa.

Giochi Asiatici: la formazione anti-Cina

1 RI Myongguk GK 09 SEP 1986
3 JANG Songhyok (C) DF 18 JAN 1991
5 JANG Kukchol DF 16 FEB 1994
6 KANG Kukchol DF 01 JUL 1990
11 JONG Ingwan MF 30 OCT 1992
12 RI Yongjik MF 08 FEB 1991
13 SIM Hyonjin DF 01 JAN 1991
14 YUN Ilgwang MF 01 APR 1993
15 RI Hyokchol FW 27 JAN 1991
17 SO Hyonuk MF 17 APR 1992
20 SO Kyongjin MF 08 JAN

Substitutes :
2 JONG Kwangsok DF 05 JAN 1994
4 KIM Cholbom DF 16 JUL 1994
7 JO Kwang FW 05 AUG 1994
8 JU Jongchol MF 20 OCT 1994
9 RIM Kwanghyok MF 05 AUG 1992
10 KIN Jusong FW 15 OCT 1993
16 KIM Yongil MF 06 JUL 1994
18 AN Taesong GK 21 OCT 1993

N.Korea Plays China in Football Opener for Asian Games

North Korea will begin its 2014 Asian Games in Incheon with men’s football. It has a preliminary match against China in Group F at 5 p.m. on Monday.

North Korea is ranked 146th in FIFA rankings, much lower than China’s 97th.

The North Korean women’s football team will have their first preliminary match against Vietnam in Group C at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The team is ranked 11th in the world while Vietnam is ranked 33rd.

Asian Games: ci sarà Pak Kwang Ryong

Pyongyang enverra son ministre du Sport aux Jeux asiatiques d’Incheon

SEOUL, 05 sept. (Yonhap) — La Corée du Nord a envoyé ce vendredi à la Corée du Sud la liste des 273 membres de sa délégation pour les prochains Jeux asiatiques, comprenant son ministre du Sport, Kim Yong-hun. Sur la liste figurent six membres du Comité olympique nord-coréen, dont le président Kim Yong-hun et deux vice-présidents, Son Kwang-ho et Jang Su-myong.

Kim a été nommé en mai dernier au poste de ministre du Sport et Son et Jang sont actuellement vice-ministres. Kim s’est inscrit pour participer aux Jeux asiatiques en qualité de président du Comité olympique nord-coréen. Le ministre du Sport nord-coréen sera donc la personnalité la plus importante à effectuer une visite en Corée du Sud depuis 2009.

Un total de 262 membres de la délégation nord-coréenne emprunteront un itinéraire aérien au-dessus de la mer Jaune et dix autres athlètes et journalistes résidant au Japon partiront du Japon. Pak Kwang-ryong, footballeur qui joue actuellement au FC Bâle, prendra un vol direct reliant la Suisse à la Corée du Sud.

Le gouvernement sud-coréen et le comité d’organisation seront prêts à accueillir la délégation nord-coréenne en autorisant sa venue au Sud et le vol de l’avion nord-coréen, a déclaré un responsable du ministère de l’Unification de Séoul.

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