Fate soccer match between Korea and Japan, the best-ever Eleven...Cha Bum-keun and Son Heung-min, Nakata and Honda

Fate soccer match between Korea and Japan, the best-ever Eleven...Cha Bum-keun and Son Heung-min, Nakata and Honda

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Korea and Japan, close but distant neighbors, have produced a number of masterpieces even in soccer. There have been 81 A-match games between Korea and Japan so far. Whenever a match was held, countless stars made fans laugh and cry. Korea Sports Trend lists the best stars representing Korea and Japan by position.

There was no room for disagreement as a striker who is responsible for the goal, the flower of soccer. Hwang Sun-hong (56) was listed as one-top. He scored the winning goal for the first time in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, and he was also a "Japanese killer" who would score goals whenever he encountered Japan.

Son Heung-min (33) and Cha Bum-keun (70) are on the sidelines whenever discussing Korea's best players. Son, who is dubbed the best striker in Asia beyond Korea, became the first Asian top scorer (23 goals) in the English Premier League. Cha Bum-keun was the one who scored the most goals (98 goals) by a foreign player in the Bundesliga, the world's best league, and remains in the memory of fans.
For Japan, they selected Kunishige Kamamoto, 81, Shinji Kagawa, 36, and Keisuke Honda. Kamamoto was a striker who made the world wary of Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. As the top scorer with seven goals during the 1968 Mexico Olympics, he gave Japan a bronze medal. Kamamoto's 75 A-match goals is still in the top 10 A-match scoring records. Kagawa opened the door for Japanese players to advance to the Bundesliga, and Honda took responsibility for Japan's advance to the round of 16 teams at the 2010 South Africa World Cup and the 2018 Russia World Cup.

In the midfield, Yoo Sang-chul, Park Ji-sung (44), and Ki Sung-yueng (36), who died of pancreatic cancer four years ago, were recognized as the best players. Yoo Sang-chul and Park Ji-sung are the main players in the semi-finals of the Korea-Japan World Cup. In particular, Park Ji-sung played a pioneer role in European soccer as an engine responsible for Korean soccer before Son Heung-min appeared. Ki Sung-yueng grew up along the way and contributed to the advancement of Korean soccer to the round of 16 at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Japan's Hidetoshi Nagata (49), Makoto Hasebe (42), and Wataru Endo (33) are considered the best midfielders of all time. Nagata was called the "World Class" when he played for Italian Serie A players Perugia, AS Roma, and Parma. Had he not retired at the young age of 29, he could have left a deeper mark. Hasebe played as a defensive midfielder in the Bundesliga for 17 years until his retirement last year, and Endo, the only active player, is a housekeeper for Liverpool. 먹튀검증

The defense line was a structure in which the past and present of Korean soccer are competing. Kim Min-jae (29) and Hong Myung-bo (56) who play for Bayern Munich in Germany were named the best center defenders in history. Lee Young-pyo (47), who played in the English Premier League with Park Ji-sung, and Park Kyung-hoon (63), who first proved that even a defender can attack, were listed as fullbacks on the left and right sides.