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The genuine championship trophy, which is touring around the world ahead of the Qatar World Cup, visited Korea first among the countries that advanced to the finals.
Bum-Keun Cha, Ji-Sung Park.
Two legends met.
By Kim Hyung-yeol, staff reporter.
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private plane carrying the World Cup trophy lands at Gimpo Airport.
Bum-Geun Cha and Ji-Sung Park, two heroes of Korean football, welcomed Rivaldo, a Brazilian football hero, who accompanied them on the trophy tour, and unveiled the world's most expensive trophy, weighing 6.142 kg, carved out of pure gold.
[Cha Bum-geun: This trophy!
It's a wish.
It's an eternal dream...]
[Ji-Sung Park: I think I can feel it again today when I see that the energy that the World Cup trophy gives is different.]
This trophy, which is kept in FIFA and used only for a short time at the World Cup awards ceremony, is a symbol of the winning team engraved on the bottom of the trophy. Only the players and the heads of each country can directly touch it, but Rivaldo, who led Brazil to the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, kissed the trophy again after 20 years.
[Rivaldo: I am so happy to be able to kiss this trophy again today.]
At the official event, Rivaldo presented a mini-trophy to the coach of the Bento national team and prayed for good luck,
[Rivaldo: Korea advanced to the quarterfinals in 2002.]
We can go again this time.]
Beom-geun Cha and Ji-sung Park cheered the juniors by handing out flags to pray for victory.
[Park Ji-Sung: Son Heung-Min scored one goal in his first World Cup appearance and two goals in his second appearance, so maybe he will give joy to Korean football by scoring three goals in this third appearance (I think)]
Qatar The trophy to be given to the final winner of the World Cup will be released to the public tomorrow (25th) and then depart for Japan.
(Video coverage: Lee Byung-joo and Park Seung-won, video editing: Kim Jong-tae, CG: Kim Jong-un)