Soccer 'Nightmare' will be reproduced again...Like Lee Kang-in and Park Ji-sung, 'winning the bench'? → "I'm happy to go to the UCL finals," but 99% of the chances are that I will be excluded from the starting lineup
Soccer 'Nightmare' will be reproduced again...Like Lee Kang-in and Park Ji-sung, 'winning the bench'? → "I'm happy to go to the UCL finals," but 99% of the chances are that I will be excluded from the starting lineup
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Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain), the second Korean player to win the UEFA Champions League after Park Ji-sung, emphasized the team spirit and strengthened his will to win.
However, chances are quite low that he will play in the final. He has already missed all important matches at the end of the season, and Lee Kang-in is excluded from the lineup for the finals in France.
Lee Kang-in's team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG, France) will play the 2024-2025 UEFA Champions League (UCL) final against Inter Milan (Italy) at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, at 4 a.m. on June 1 (Korea time).
Ahead of the final, Lee Kang-in had an interview with the PSG club itself.
"We have been doing very well since the beginning of this season. It is rewarding to have come this far. I am so happy," Lee said on his team's website on Tuesday. "I will do my best to win the championship."
PSG has already won the Super Cup (Trope de Champion) and the French Cup (Coup de France), including the French regular league League 1 this season, and achieved the "Treble" (triple crown) in Korea.
Now, he is about to bring the end of a spectacular season by winning the UCL. If PSG wins the Champions League, it will become the first team in the French league to achieve the treble (League, Champions League, and French Cup). If the number of players including Trope de Champion is added, it can achieve a total of four wins.
There is also a record that Lee Kang-in personally gets.
Lee Kang-in is the second Korean player to win the UCL after Park Ji-sung.
Park won the UCL title in the 2007-2008 season as a member of the prestigious Manchester United in England. However, Park was absent from the roster and watched the game from the stands.
It was widely expected that Park, who showed strong performance in the semi-final against Barcelona, would also play in the final, but Sir Alex Ferguson chose Owen Hargreaves over Park. Park, who watched the match in a suit, was not happy about his first Champions League victory.
Since then, Park Ji-sung has reached the UCL final twice at Manchester United (2008-2009 and 2010-2011 season) and Tottenham Hotspur (England) Son Heung-min once (2018-2019 season), but all of them had to be satisfied with the runner-up.
Lee Kang-in emphasized the team spirit.
"It is here that we are more united, helping each other, trying to be a team, and moving toward the same goal," he said, adding, "I am confident that we will continue to walk this path in the future."
As Lee Kang-in said, PSG gave away ace Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid on a free contract (FA) ahead of this season. There was a prospect that it would be difficult to fill the gap as it lost its best ace, but PSG rather became a "one team" with the remaining players. After Mbappe's departure, the organization was evaluated as solid, and it is proving with the results by looking at the Champions League victory.
Lee Kang-in, who was with Mbappe last season, emphasized the team's unity this season.
The key to the UCL final was also found in the same place. 온라인바카라
"As I said already, the most important thing is that we are one. We are moving toward the same goal of winning, and that will allow us to produce the best results," Lee Kang-in said, adding, "I think that's the most important factor."