Korea's soccer Asian ranking is third, and K-referees are behind China, the UAE, and Uzbekistan...The reality is that it is twice as difficult as the North Korea-China World Cup, why?
Korea's soccer Asian ranking is third, and K-referees are behind China, the UAE, and Uzbekistan...The reality is that it is twice as difficult as the North Korea-China World Cup, why?
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The future of the Korean soccer referee team is still dark.
FIFA did not have the name of Korean referees on the list of referees for the "2025 FIFA Club World Cup" released on the 15th (local time). FIFA is planning to deploy 117 referees from 41 countries to the Club World Cup, which will be held in 11 cities in the United States from June 14 to July 13. There are 35 referees, 58 assistant referees and 24 video review referees. Among the countries belonging to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), China (Manning, Puming), Qatar (Salman Palahi, Ramzan Al-Naemi, Majid Al Shamari), the United Arab Emirates (Omar al-Ali, Mohammed Obaid Kalpan), Uzbekistan (Iliz Tantashev, Timur Gainulin, Andrei Trapenko) produced Club World Cup referees.
According to the Korean referee community, the exclusion of the "K-referee" from the Club World Cup roster was not expected. The leaders of the refereeing community say, "It is not just an individual's ability but also an area of politics to present referees to international competitions. It is important how much the Korean Football Association (KFA) can voice within the AFC and FIFA." The influence of the KFA within the AFC is gradually decreasing. Sheikh Salman van Ibrahim Al Khalifa, from Bahrain, was appointed as the AFC's president in 2013, and has held the position of head of the AFC for 12 years. From 2011 to 2023, three of the four Asian Cups were hosted in the Middle East. The 2022 World Cup was held in Qatar, and the 2034 World Cup was held in Saudi Arabia. The Middle East has shifted its focus of Asian soccer to the Middle East based on its enormous financial power. Naturally, judges from the Middle East, including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, began to appear at international competitions. The 2023 Asian Cup Final Referee was Chinese Manning. Although KFA Chairman Chung Mong-gyu served as the AFC's referee chairman from 2016 to 2020, ironically, the Korean referee took a back seat. Currently, the AFC's referee chairman is Hani Balan, who is from Qatar.
South Korea has never produced referees at major major tournaments while the strong mountain has changed once. Deputy referee Park Hae-yong of the 1994 U.S. World Cup, Vice referee Jeon Young-hyun of the 1998 World Cup in France, referee Kim Young-joo of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, vice referee Kim Dae-young of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and vice referee Jeong Hae-sang of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa have solidified the status of South Korean referees through five consecutive World Cups. However, the team has been lagging behind those of Japan, Australia, and Uzbekistan since the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Feeling a sense of crisis, the KFA launched a "World Cup Referees Production Project" to allocate for the 2018 Russia World Cup and 2022 Qatar World Cup after the Brazil World Cup. The team has intensively managed six referees, including Kim Jong-hyuk (main referee), Jung Hae-chan (main referee), Yoon Kwang-yeol (main referee), Kim Sang-woo (main referee), Choi Min-byung (main referee), and Yang Byeong-eun (group 2). However, the project failed to produce results, and the project ended in vain. The soccer community believes that there is a high possibility that Korean referees will not be assigned to the 2026 North Korea-China World Cup to be held next summer. The Asian referees, who are participating in this Club World Cup, will most likely play in the World Cup in a year.
Where does the problem start? Rather than looking out the door, we should look into the text first. Gwangju coach Lee Jung-hyo was sent off after kicking a water bottle in the match against Daejeon last month and was suspended for two games. Article 12 of the KFA's Match Rules (Paul and Illegal Acts) stipulates that "throwing or kicking a beverage bottle or other object" is a "warning," but the judges violated the rules at the time. There was also a violation of the regulation that gave warnings to the wrong players and canceled the warnings after operating the VAR system. Such incidents happen frequently. The KFA's judgment committee allocates and evaluates judges in secret in a dark room. There are also suspicions that certain judges were deployed several times to save certain teams. The misjudgment also goes "hush." On top of this, Moon Jin-hee, the new chairman of the judgment committee for the fourth term of Chung Mong-gyu, was highlighted by a media report that he had had drinks with female judges in the past when he had to embark on a "rejudgment reform drive."
Chairman Chung Mong-gyu, who succeeded in his fourth term in office, pledged to support referees. Major points include support for fostering international referees, implementing educational programs, and realizing referee allowances. It is time for Moon to step up efforts to normalize the refereeing community. There are a number of issues to be resolved by eliminating bad practices of controlling referees on-site with evaluation scores that are directly related to the right to allocate matches, cultivating a wide range of referee talents, enhancing consistency and transparency in refereeing, allocating fair referees and evaluating fair referees, and discovering new international referees. At the same time, Korea should make full use of its existing talent pool to further expand the influence of Korean referees within the AFC. Judges say in unison that Chinese referee Manning is superior to referee Kim Jong-hyuk and is not whistling in important matches in recent international competitions. 토토사이트