Absent from competition for half a decade, the Chollima’s under-20 team have returned with a hyper-talented squad
North Korea’s women’s team won the under-20 World Cup final on Sunday without losing a single game in the process.North Korea’s women’s team won the under-20 World Cup final on Sunday without losing a single game in the process.They’re coming for you. They’re coming for you. North Korea’s women’s football age-group pathway teams, they’re coming for. Well, pretty much anyone in their way, it seems, after the weekend.
They did it brilliantly too, producing, from the TV footage, a whirl of interplay and high-class finishing. Even the winner in the final was a beauty, scored by Choe Il-son, the hyper-talented 17-year-old cutting inside on the right, gliding past a defender, then shooting left‑footed into the roof of the net via a deflection.
But for the neutral, watching this was also a reminder of that most cliched and degraded of notions – sport’s ability to surprise and dissolve preconceptions. It’s North Korea, dude. How do you expect them to play? Tireless robot-pressing? A kind of unsmiling insect football enacted for the love of Dear Leader?
More widely, women’s football in North Korea is a fascinating story. The tale has been told often of party officials returning with an outreach plan from the 1986 Fifa summit where the Norwegian delegate, Ellen Wille, literally screamed on stage in frustration, demanding a proper women’s World Cup.
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