Vice world champions Netherlands have contested their World Cup dress rehearsal against South Korea. It is not unusual for the last friendly before the start of the tournament in Australia and New Zealand to take place behind closed doors. However, both associations are hiding the result.
The public will probably not find out what exactly happened on Sunday afternoon (07/16/2023 / local time) at the Campbelltown Sports Stadium in Leumeah. At least according to the will of the Korea Football Association (KFA), the South Korean football association, it shouldn’t. The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) said on request that he asked not to publish any information about the game. It was a “training game” whose purpose was to test under competitive conditions shortly before the start of the World Cup. The game was played three times for 30 minutes.
The only information: There were no injuries
The result and potential goalscorers may remain a mystery forever. After all, the KNVB announced that no Dutch player has sustained an injury. All players in the squad would have been given time to play, it said. From the Korean association came: nothing. It is possible that national coach Colin Bell had his footballers practice avoiding tackles or robust duel behavior in the last endurance test before the Asian women’s first World Cup game on July 25 (4 a.m.).
After all, South Korea’s opening opponent in the German group is called Colombia and was so rough in their World Cup dress rehearsal against Ireland that the Western Europeans called it off.