S. Korea to face African team in March football friendly

SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's national football squad will play a
friendly match with an African national team in March to prepare for the FIFA
World Cup to be held in South Africa in summer, football officials here said
Saturday.

"As head coach Huh Jung-moo has asked for a game with an African team, we are in
consultations with Cote d´Ivoire, Cameroon, and Ghana, all of which have
advanced to the World Cup finals," said Kim Joo-sung, head of the international
affairs department at the Korea Football Association.
The date of the envisioned match has been set at March 3 with the team and the
venue to be decided soon, he added.
South Korea is trying to hone their skills against Africa's strength, stamina,
and ball control as it is in the same group with Nigeria along with Argentina and
Greece. South Korea believes the match with Nigeria will be crucial in its first
goal to join the second round of 16 teams.
South Korea plans to dispatch Huh and his assistant coaches to the African Cup of
Nations to take place in Angola next month to figure out more details of Nigeria.
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