DISAPPOINTMENT

What a bad day today! Now I feel extremely disappointed since Korea Republic was defeated 0 - 2 by Switzerland early this morning. Finally, my favorite team can not repeat the miraculous achievements as they did 4 years ago, when the world cup was held in their home. Even, this become more regrettful for Korea Republic because they have gained 4 points after one win over Togo and one draw against France in the two previous matches.

In the first match with Togo they didn't play as well as they could though the match ended in a win for them but later in the second one they seemed to start returning to themselves, a Korean team, who always plays with a highly courageous and not-afraid-of-injury spirit. As a result, they managed to hold France, the champion of the World Cup 1998, to a draw after a lot of great effort to even the score in the late minutes of the second half. After these two matches my hope towards one more win or at least a draw with Switzerland for Korea was actually raised up to a high peak but everything didn't go as expected.

In my opinion, Switzerland is entirely deserved for a win over Korea because they played so well throughout the game and especially they played successfully on both attack and defence. As for Korea, they lost this game partly because their playing tactict was rather simple and; more exactly to say, it seemed to be slightly inflexible and partly because they might not be well-prepared for this match. That is the reason why they have to say goodbye to World cup 2006 early.

However, I always love Korea anyway because they are the only Asian football team that has made a deep impression on me for many world cups. Hoping that one day Korea will be alble to play football as equally as others in Europe.