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Cha Doo-ri takes part in the Qatar FIFA TSG World Cup… “If world football comes closer”

Doo-ri Cha (42), the legendary leader of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup semi-final, will participate as a member of the FIFA Technology Research Group (TSG) for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which starts in November .

Director Cha announced on his social media on the 5th, “I have joined the Qatar FIFA TSG World Cup.”

“I think our group’s job will be to watch the game, analyze it, and make the data easy for people to understand,” he said.

Director Cha contributed to Korea’s progress to the semi-finals of the Korea-Japan World Cup as a player, and also participated in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, helping Korea advance to the round of 16 for the first time away.

During the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he visited the site as a broadcast commentator.

During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he assisted coach Shin Tae-yong as the coach of the Korean national team, and this time, he worked at the World Cup site once again as a FIFA TSG.

TSG travels around the World Cup site to analyze matches and prepare official reports. It is also about choosing individual winners, such as the Golden Ball, the best player of the tournament.

In a social media post announcing his participation in the TSG World Cup, Cha uploaded a photo taken with Arsene Wenger, FIFA’s Global Development Officer, etc.

“I believe our young players have tremendous potential. How we teach and develop it is the homework,” he said. fight Korean football,” he added.

He led the under-18 (U-18) team of Seoul K League 1 FC, Seoul Osan High School, as the manager for two years from 2019, and since the end of last year, he has been in charge of the youth reinforcement department responsible for youth development the club.Yonhap News