No there isn't

Fiji at the cup would put australia's record in jeopardy.

News to me.

not according to wikipedia there ain't :p

actually jong te-se parents are from siuth korea. his mum was the one who thought she was nth korean . theres one player playuing in swizterland in the 2nd div

fixed

hell yes Bryan could not agree more...

Fiji, Samoa, Tasmania all would do better...

To be honest they looked good until i went to bed just after 1 nil

or the potential argument that more needs to be done in the region and thus giving australia the world cup would be the best thing ever :P

I don't think they parked the bus this time. If anything I think they showed they went to SA willing to give thmselves the best chance of making the second round, and wanted to create chances in the hope of a possible upset. Now that they are out of the tournament, they can probably play to their strengths in the last game against Cote d'Ivoire.


Nevertheless, they are supposedly here as one of Asia's best 4 teams. When their results are poor, it not only reflects on them, it also reflects on the teams who finished behind them in qualifying. This result combined with Bahrain's loss to New Zealand opens the AFC up to the potential argument that they have been given one too many WC spots.

No team in the history of WC football have parked the bus and conceded 7.
Watch the game. They came out in the second and pushed a little higher. Were scored on again, so pushed higher.....
Parked the bus......... If they had parked the bus the scoreline would have been a bit more respectable. Which is what I expected them to do. But, credit to them, they pushed on.

Cuzzy, do you have any suggestions who that might be? LOL

maybe time for another ocienaia team ;)

Pity since they were playing pretty fucking good in the first half. Created plenty of opportunities for themselves as well but i guess they cracked as soon as Portugal scored the second goal

NK started OK, but once the confidence dropped low enough and the confidence of Portugal went sky-high things got real ugly.

I sort of feel for them, but at the same time am happy that there has been a bigger default in this WC now than what we copped against Germany!

After Portugal scored the third... BAM! It was all over.

At least now we don't have the biggest defeat of the tournament any more :)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/21/north-korea-tv-portugal-world-cup

...Unlucky. I guess they got a little too confident after the first game. What's the bet the "signal failed" and the broadcast was cancelled part way through, with a subsequent news release stating that North Korea had won.

Not all of them are.

Jong Tae-Sae's parents were refugees and he was born in Japan but decided to play for North Korea.

Hong Yong-Jo in Russia, I know he had an offer from France(I think) but North Korea didn't let him go and then he had an offer from Serbia North Korea deemed them ok to go to and from there he want to Russia.

An Yong-Hak is another one born in Japan and has played his whole career in Japan apart from 4 seasons in South Korea.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 22/6/2010 01:23:27 AM

they're refugees.

anyone know the story on the 3 abroad players? i thought they werent allowed to transfer to other leagues or something like that?

Hong Yong-Jo plays for Rostov in Russia

Jong Tae-Sae plays for Kawasaki Frontale

An Yong-Hak plays for Omiya Ardija

Well 22 of them are fucked only the striker plays abroad!

How lucky are the ones that plat abroad then:lol:

they'll all be executed upon their return home and the result stricken from the the histories, i hope you're happy portugal.

Not really. Most people were expecting North Korea to get slaughtered in all 3 games. The Brazilian game just provided a false dawn and everyone thought they would be competitive in their last 2 games.

It wouldn't surprise me if they concede 5+ against the Ivorians.

Were you watching this game? Korea tried to play, they just got destroyed by a better team.

At least it shows 7-0 scorelines are possible.

A disappointing result that puts Asia in a poor light.

D:

yeah cool poem scouse :S
Sucked in Korea you deserve the loss for parking the bus and hitting long balls all game.

What the fuck do you expect them to do. Play 4-2-4. That is such an unbelievably ignorant comment.

Their defence is what got them through qualifying so why wouldn't they play defensive.

I just wanted Portugal to get 3 more to record the heaviest ever WC win.