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Korean football has a terrible jinx in that it has never won the second round of the World Cup.

The road to the round of 16 opens only when we break this bad luck against Ghana this time.



Reporter Ha Seong-ryong on the sidewalk.



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A 1-1 draw against the United States in 2002, which created a legend in the semifinals, and a 4-1 defeat against Argentina in 2010, which advanced to the round of 16 for the first time in history. Didn't even get a single win.



In particular, in the World Cup in Brazil 8 years ago, after overcoming the difficult Russia and the first match 1-1 well, there is a painful memory of collapsing by allowing 4 goals in the second match against Algeria, which was considered the weakest.



In the end, in the third game, he was defeated by the favorites, Belgium, and with 1 draw and 2 losses, advancing to the round of 16 was frustrated, and young Son Heung-min cried endlessly.



[Kim Young-kwon/Soccer team defender (last month): (In 2014) I was not very prepared.

The team called Algeria didn't have much information, and it was a situation where they couldn't grasp the individual abilities of each player...

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Bentu's fate also depended on the second game.



We have to continue the momentum that raised our confidence with a well fought draw in the first match against strong Uruguay until the match against Ghana, which we are counting as a sure-win opponent.



Ghana, ranked 61st in the FIFA rankings, is the lowest among the finalists, but showed formidable firepower by scoring two goals against Portugal.



Son Heung-min, who experienced the friendly against Ghana eight years ago and remembers the nightmare of the World Cup in Brazil, was most wary of being careless.



[Son Heung-min/Soccer team captain: I played a friendly match against Ghana (in 2014).

Plays we didn't expect back then...

I got a really big nose injury in that game, and I think those things served as a very good lesson.]



Korean soccer, which started off well with a new style, meets Ghana this time to break the dreaded second game jinx.



(Video coverage: Yoo Dong-hyeok · Lee Byung-ju, video editing: Choi Eun-jin, CG: Kang Kyung-lim)