Korea Football Association

Okay, and what about Son Heung-min? Did we get to hear what he had to say about the incident? Well, no official response, but the former Tottenham Hotspur star did disclose the past instances of facing racism while playing overseas.

In 2024, the Korea Football Association asked FIFA to strengthen punishment for racist behavior in the sport.

Um Ji-sung, another South Korean star who plays for Swansea City in the second-tier English football league in EFL, also faced racial abuse earlier this month.

Authorities there took immediate action and arrested the man who made the remarks in a matter of days.

Warriors face.

The Korea Football Association announced Thursday that the team will face 55th-ranked Saudi Arabia on November 13th at 11.30 p.m. Korea time and then 60th-ranked Qatar on November 17th at 11 p.m.

These matches will fall inside the last FIFA international match window for this year, 2026.

Okay, and how did Team Korea

These players are very far removed from the, the players that, that got, um, kicked out of the World Cup so easily.

But I think there's a lot of ill will towards the Korean national team and the KFA and everything at this moment in time in Korean football, and then having to have the, the men's national team go and celebrate and not cheer the goal, but, uh, celebrate in this mili- uh, military exemption, I think it's kind of added fuel to the flames and, um-

I think it's all, I think it also is, there's also an element of, of how the media frame things and how-

Mm

Guide the conversation and-

Yeah.

"You should, even though you, even though we all know it, even though we all think it, don't say that it's all about exemption." So agents, player liaison officers at the KFA, all these people should, should have told and just sort of given these lads advice.

'Cause some of them, I know Lee Jae-kyong is 25 and he said, "I'm not going to the army," in his thing, right? I know that, that was obviously, he's, he's obviously still young, but you would say probably old enough.