Hong Myung-bo is expecting the atmosphere to feel like a home game when his South Korea team play South Africa in their last World Cup Group A encounter in Monterrey.<\/p>\n
A large number of Mexican fans supported the Taeguk Warriors when they defeated the Czech Republic 2-1 in the opening game in Guadalajara, and head coach Hong expects similar support on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe may feel like this is our home ground tomorrow, and that is a very big gift to our players,\u201d said Hong, who was captain of the South Korea team that reached the semi-finals when it co-hosted the 2002 World Cup with Japan. \u201cWe will use that very well so we can play a good game tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a strong reason for the support.<\/p>\n
In the 2018 World Cup, South Korea upset Germany 2-0 to send Mexico into the round of 16 and Mexican fans famously marched to South Korea\u2019s consulate in Monterrey to celebrate, chanting \u201cCoreano, hermano, ya eres Mexicano [Korean brother, you are now Mexican]!\u201d<\/p>\n
Since then, football fans from the two nations have developed a bond despite a difference in cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Myung-bo is expecting the atmosphere to feel like a home game when his South Korea team play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[245,57910,170,233832,233835,85,46,1437,233833,1900,1326,33214,233834,9517,11471,105,1032,6866],"class_list":["post-509112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-canada","tag-czech-republic","tag-germany","tag-guadalajara","tag-hong-myung-bo","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-kia-motors","tag-los-angeles","tag-mexico","tag-monterrey","tag-pesqueria","tag-south-africa","tag-south-korea","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}