North Korea trumpets Brazil goal

SEOUL North Korea on Wednesday broadcast its opening World Cup match against Brazil, boasting that its goal was the ‘one that has made the world recognise anew North Korean soccer’.

By (AFP)

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Published: Wed 16 Jun 2010, 9:34 PM

Last updated: Mon 6 Apr 2015, 4:13 AM

North Korea were beaten 2-1 by the five-time World Cup winners in their opening match on Tuesday.

Midfielder Ji Yun-Nam scored North Korea’s first goal at a World Cup after more than four decades for the reclusive nation, who last played at the global tournament in England in 1966.

The North’s Korean Central Broadcasting Station aired the recorded footage of the match in full, according to monitors in Seoul, Yonhap news agency reported.

A commentator praised Ji’s goal which came in the 89th minute as “a powerful one that a world-class goalkeeper could not save.”

North Korea get their chance to cause a boilover against the other Group G hotshots, Portugal in Cape Town on Monday and Ivory Coast in Nelspruit four days later.


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