Club World Cup: BVB opponent Ulsan: Hyeon-Woo Jo and the beautiful memories

At the end of the club World Cup group phase, Borussia Dortmund has to go against Ulsan HD. In the goal of the South Koreans there is one who has the best memories of a duel with German footballers.

Many a German fan may have displaced the memories. World Cup 2018 in Russia? Yes, that didn’t go well for the DFB team. The third group game against South Korea would have had to win Germany at the time to reach the round of 16. This project failed thoroughly: the game was lost with 0: 2, Germany was eliminated as the defending champion and co-favorite for the first time in a World Cup preliminary round.

Hyeon-Woo Jo was the goalkeeper of the South Koreans. The Hyeon-Woo Jo, who, seven years later, meets a German team again: Borussia Dortmund at the club World Cup (Wednesday, 9 p.m., in the Sportschau-Liveickicker). And Jo also has the best memories of the Germans personally: When victory against the DFB team, the now 33-year-old stood out with six glossy parades, was named player of the game after the game.

“Germany means a lot to me, so I really wanted to play against a team like Dortmund,” said Jo in an interview with FIFA. “I will be well prepared and deliver a good show”. By the way, the goalkeeper will meet two players after seven years: today’s Dortmund Niklas Süle (then starting eleven) and Julian Brandt (Joker) were on the pitch at the desolate World Cup appearance against the South Koreans.

Dortmund as well as further – Ulsan already out

While BVB has the best prospects for the round of 16 at the club World Cup and even the group victory, Ulsan HD was already excreted after the second matchday. The club, which was only founded in 1983, had to take two defeats from the city center and has no chance of the KO round. JOS announced show would, at least from the South Korean’s point of view, would no longer be too relevant for the further course of the tournament.

But how realistic is a success of the outsider against BVB? At least the list of success seems convincing: The “Tiger” became the Champions League winner in Asia twice and won the South Korean championship five times-most recently three times in a row. In South Korea, Ulsan has established itself as a fixture in addition to record champions Jeonbuk Motors (nine titles) in recent years.

And yet: The Ulsans squad doesn’t give too much on paper. Top goalkeeper in the season until November is the Brazilian Erick Farias (eight goals), one of the few legionnaires in the team of coach Pan-Gon Kim. In football-Europa known names are searched for in vain in the Ulsans squad. Even in the current squad of the South Korean national team, there are only two players of Ulsans: Defender Hyun-Teak Cho and even goalkeeper Jo, who is a goalkeeper in the club as in the national team.

Dortmund against Ulsan Hausher Favorit

The overall market value of the squad is estimated by the “Transfermarkt.de” portal to 15.05 million euros. For comparison: In the market value table, Ulsan would be in 16th place in the past second division season-between Braunschweig and SSV Ulm.

Against BVB (estimated market value of almost 480 million), Ulsan is accordingly clear outsiders, even if in goalkeeper Jo she knows something like a “German World Cup alb dream” in her ranks.

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