South Korea sweating over fitness of star man Kim ahead of Ghana showdown – 101 Great Goals

The South Korean nationwide workforce may very well be with out a essential member of the nation’s backline of their upcoming assembly with Ghana, it has been revealed.

The participant in query? Kim Min-jae.

Central defender Kim – within the midst of a stellar marketing campaign at membership stage with Napoli – performed an integral position in South Korea’s World Cup opening day stalemate with Uruguay earlier this week.

Since, nevertheless, the 26-year-old has set alarm bells ringing within the Taegeuk Warriors’ camp.

This comes with Kim persevering with to battle with a calf damage.

After sitting out coaching on Friday, the stopper did likewise earlier at present, taking no probabilities forward of South Korea’s crunch conflict with Ghana in two days’ time.

In flip, it was confirmed by the KFA that “He nonetheless has some ache (proper calf) so he can’t do the coaching at present”.

Though it has been insisted that Kim’s damage shouldn’t be a critical one, his standing for Monday’s motion on the Education City Stadium subsequently seems to be up within the air.

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