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The newly appointed head coach of the national football team, Robert Moreno, has announced his first roster. He selected a large number of K League players, including FC Seoul's MVP candidate Jeong Seung-won. Living up to his reputation as a tactician, he gave an impressive response, stating that he selected the players after analyzing data on 1,700 of them.
Reporter Lee Jeong-Chan has the details.
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Coach Moreno, who earned high scores during the open recruitment process with detailed analysis data on South Korean players, showed his "analyst" side once again while announcing his inaugural roster.
To select the 30 players for the upcoming four consecutive A-matches, he revealed that he used an analysis program to gather information on 1,700 South Korean players and narrowed down the list to fit the "4-4-2" formation, which has been most widely used in the K League over the past two years.
[Roberto Moreno / Head Coach, National Football Team: The key criteria are performance, not reputation. It is clear that desire and passion must be shown.]
Accordingly, built around core players such as Son Heung-min, Lee Kang-in, and Kim Min-jae, surprise selections were made including Incheon defender Kim Keonhee and Gimcheon Sangmu's Park Tae-jun. Kim Min-su, a promising born-in-2006 prospect who recently joined Scottish powerhouse Rangers, also received his first-ever senior national team call-up.
[Roberto Moreno / Head Coach, National Football Team: They have clear positions in their respective teams and have shown solid performances. Above all, I checked their performances over the last 10 matches.]
The fortunes of closely watched K League stars varied. Jeong Seung-won of league-leaders Seoul has put on the Taegeuk mark again after 1 year and 2 months, while Jeonbuk's Lee Seung-woo was left off the list once more.
Addressing suspicions that he relies on artificial intelligence, Coach Moreno reiterated that it is not true.
(Video by Yoo Dong-hyuk | Video Editing by Park Jung-sam | Video Source: YouTube 'Selección Española de Fútbol (SeFutbol)')
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