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S. Korean football's career leading scorer announces retirement

Oct 26, 2020

Lee Dong-gook, the career scoring leader in South Korean club football, announced his retirement on Monday. Lee's K League 1 club, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, said Lee, 41, will hold his retirement pres...
K League's top two clubs clash for last time with title at stake

Oct 22, 2020

So they meet again. Ulsan Hyundai FC and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, the two best clubs in the K League 1 in 2020, will square off for the final time in the league this season Sunday. The match will kic...
Another goal keeps Son Heung-min tied for Premier League scoring lead

Oct 19, 2020

Son Heung-min has found the back of the net again for Tottenham Hotspur to stay tied for the Premier League scoring lead, though his latest effort was overshadowed by the club's dismal second-half ef...
Promotion playoffs in S. Korean football set for Nov.

Oct 14, 2020

Two playoff matches with a spot in South Korean club football's top division at stake will kick off next month. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) announced fixtures for the two promo...
Tottenham's Son Heung-min has mixed feelings about documentary on club

Oct 13, 2020

During what ultimately ended as a disappointing 2019-2020 Premier League season for Tottenham Hotspur, the club's Korean star Son Heung-min and his lads had a documentary crew's cameras and microphon...
Pro football league to reopen stadium gates Friday

Oct 12, 2020

The South Korean pro football league will reopen the gates to its stadiums later this week, following the recent easing of social distancing restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, the Korea Pr...
Montenegrin striker Mugosa named K League's top player for Sept.

Oct 12, 2020

Incheon United striker Stefan Mugosa has been voted the top player in South Korean club football for September. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) announced Monday that Mugosa topped ...
Men's nat'l football teams set for rare exhibition matches

Oct 8, 2020

South Korean football fans will be treated to a pair of exhibition matches between their two men's national teams this month, with the first showdown set for Friday, the Hangeul Day holiday. The sen...
Ahead of long-awaited matches, U-23 nat'l football coach feels alive again

Oct 5, 2020

PAJU -- It has been nine months since the South Korean men's under-23 national football team played a match, and for head coach Kim Hak-bum, the pair of exhibitions against the senior national team c...
Tottenham's Son Heung-min stays hot in Europa League qualifier

Sept 25, 2020

When you're hot, you're hot. Son Heung-min scored a goal and set up two others, helping Tottenham Hotspur past Shkendija 3-1 in North Macedonia on Thursday (local time) in the third-round qualifying...
Changes at top, bottom of K League table looming

Sept 18, 2020

By Sunday evening, there could be a new team at the top of South Korean football for the first time in two months. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors will try to overtake Ulsan Hyundai FC for first place in the...
Tottenham's Son Heung-min looking to build off successful season

Sept 11, 2020

Tottenham Hotspur's offensive star Son Heung-min will kick off the new Premier League season, looking to build off a successful campaign, in which he joined a select company of attacking aces. Totte...
Bunched-up table setting up wild final stretch in K League football

Sept 10, 2020

It has mostly been a two-horse race for the South Korean club football title in 2020, but there are intriguing battles elsewhere on the bunched-up table. Ulsan Hyundai FC are at the top of the K Lea...
Messi fails to attend coronavirus test: sources

Aug 30, 2020

BARCELONA (AFP) -- Lionel Messi missed a coronavirus test at Barcelona's training ground on Sunday morning, club sources have confirmed to AFP, raising the possibility he will now boycott preseason t...
Vietnam football coach Park Hang-seo honored for int'l success

Aug 27, 2020

HANOI -- Park Hang-seo, the South Korean head coach of the Vietnamese men's national football team, has received a state badge of honor for his accomplishments in his adopted home. The Vietnamese go...