"Are you looking for young blood?"

The Korean women's national soccer team was convened on Sunday. Based on the initial list announced, there are 11 players aged 30 or older. Their average age is 33.27 years. The 17 players who made the national team roster for the last three times in a row averaged 28.47 years old. The average age of the 11 players who started in February against the Czech Republic and Portugal was 30.24 and 30.56 years, respectively, which are by no means young. Can we trust their intention to change generations.

The women's national team was convened in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province on Tuesday. The training session will involve two warm-up matches against the Philippines on May 5 and 8. Initially, 23 players were selected (two were excluded due to injury, and three were replaced instead). The average age is 27.65. The team is old enough to consider itself as a team preparing for the future. Key players such as Jungmi Kim (40, Hyundai Steel), Cho So-hyun (36, Birmingham), Shim Seo-yeon (35, Suwon FC) and Kim Hye-ri (34, Hyundai Steel) are also old. Lee Min-ah (Hyundai Steel), who originally had a membership in the team, is 33 years old.

The women's team had two warm-up matches in Portugal last February. It was a warm-up match, not an official one. Korea defeated the Czech Republic 2-1, but lost to Portugal 1-5. The average age of Korea's best 11 in both matches is over 30.

"Nothing has been shown by Coach Colin Bell last year. It would not be strange if he was fired last year. Korea was unexpectedly eliminated (one draw and two losses) from the group stage at last year's Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which aimed to advance to the round of 16, the highest ever in history. It also slipped to the quarterfinals at last year's Hangzhou Asian Games. It failed to qualify for the Olympics as it failed to advance to the semifinals at the second Asian qualifying round for the Paris Olympics. Generational change was desperately needed, and the games against Czech Republic and Portugal should have been done first. However, the list includes younger players in part, but its main players remain the same as last year.

The next two years will be a very important time for Korea. Korea will challenge to participate in the 2026 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Asian Cup, through which it will determine whether it will advance to the finals or the 2027 Women's World Cup. With the main axis unchanged and a considerable number of veteran players, will Korea be able to expect good results in two years.

"The next two years are an important period," Bell said. "We will continue to search for new players." Bell added that Korea needs to play soccer at a faster tempo like other countries, and younger players need to gain more experience in the domestic league. They are all right. However, the national team is still organized and operated mainly by veterans. It is hard to say that Bell's remarks and actions are the same.

I also hoped that the away exhibition match in Europe in February would be held in preparation for the future. However, veterans in their 30s dominated again. This is the second warm-up match against the Philippines. Of course, it should be played with a focus on the future rather than victory. 토토사이트

In both filly matches, the starting members can be formed around the veteran, as in the past. The first round can be divided into a veteran, the second round can be divided into a younger player, or vice versa. Of course, young players and newcomers can be selected as starters in both matches.

What is Bell's choice? No matter how cool a word is, it can only be trusted with actions. Words can sometimes be used to hide the truth, but actions always focus on the truth.

Isn't it difficult to have hope for the future as a national team that has virtually "copy and paste" the list, and as a starting member with Control C and Control V.