Third women’s national team coach in history to qualify for the U-20 World Cup

Park Yun-jeong is the new head coach of the women’s U-20 national soccer team.

Women’s national soccer coach Park Yun-jung has been named head coach of the women’s under-20 (U-20) national team.

The Korea Football Association announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Park as the head coach of the women’s U-20 national team.

Born in 1989, Park, 34, is the youngest woman ever to take charge of a women’s national team.

Park is the third female coach to lead the women’s national team, joining Hwang In-

sun (formerly of the U-20 national team) and Kim Eun-jung (currently of the U-17 national team).

Park will serve as the U-20 national team head coach and the A national team coach.

Park played for Seoul City Hall in the WK League, Chungbuk Sports (now Sejong Sports) and Albirex Niigata in Japan.

He began his coaching career in 2016 as an assistant coach at Yeoju University, and after coaching his alma mater, Pohang Women’s High School, he became a full-time coach at the Korea Football Association in 2019.

Park has coached the women’s U-17 and U-20 national teams and has experience with the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.

Since December of last year, she has been coaching the A team, led by Colin Bell, at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Park will be assisted by former KFA coaches Ko Hyun-bok, Kim Dae-hwan, goalkeeping coach, and Lee Ji-sung, physical coach.

Park Yun-jeong is the new head coach of the women’s U-20 national soccer team.
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Park Yoon-jung will lead South Korea to qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia next September.

To qualify, the team will need to finish third or better at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-20 Women’s Asian Cup in Uzbekistan next March.

Park will hold her first call-up training at the Gyeonggi Paju National Training Center (NFC) from June 6-9.

Thirty-one players under the age of 19, including Bae Ye-bin (Widok University), who was named to the final roster for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, and Kim Se-yeon (Chungju Yesung Girls’ High School), who recently participated in the Paris 2024 Olympic Qualifiers, were selected for Park’s ‘first group’.

Park plans to reduce the squad to 22 players, reconvene on March 24 and train in Uzbekistan until March 4.

The team will also play two friendly matches against the Uzbekistan U-20 National Team on March 30 and March 3.
Women’s U-20 National Team 1st domestic training roster (31 players)

GK = Park Hyun-jin (Daedeok University), Woo Seo-bin (Widok University), Cho Irin (Gwangyang Girls’ High School)

DF = Go Da-ae Park In-young Choi Eun-seo (Gwangyang Girls’ High School) Kim Kyu-yeon (Ulsan Hyundai High School) Nam Seung-eun (Osan Information Center) Park Je-ah Jeong Da-bin Jung Jung-jin (Pohang Women’s College) Uhm Min-kyung (Widok University) Oh Young-mi (Ulsan Science University)

MF = Kang Eun-young Kim Ji-hyun (Daedeok University) Go Eun-bin Won Chae-eun Im-ari (Ulsan Hyundai High School) Kim Soo-ah Park Soo-jung (Ulsan National University of Science and Technology) Kim Shin-ji Bae Ye-bin Jeon Yoo-kyung (Widok University) Kim Se-yeon (Chungju Yesung Girls’ High School) Park Min-ji Hong Chae-bin (Korea University) Jang Seo-young (Osan Information Center) Hwang Da-young (Gwangyang Girls’ High School)

FW = Yang Damin (Ulsan Hyundai High School) Yang Eunseo (Chungju Yesung Girls’ High School) Jung Da-bin (Gwangyang Girls’ High School) 슬롯사이트