Enfant Terrible VS Lion King

Distorted owing to a doubtful referee’s decision and scandalous violence, the pro soccer ground gets very hot.

‘Enfant Terrible’ Ko Jong-su(24, Suwon Samsung) and ‘Lion King’ Lee Dong Gook(23, Pohang Steelers) announced a confrontation and the top-ranking teams started to win against low-ranking teams. On August 28, 5 games for K League of 2002 Samsung PAVV are waiting for soccer fans.

▽Here is Your Star! 〓 Two soccer stars who have been popular after World Cup 1998, will come into a head-on collision in Pohang. They are Lee Dong Gook and Ko Jong-su who stayed out of the stadium for 2002 World Cup although they are the best players. Both of them have shown their real value in the pro stage and become popular again.

Lee Dong Gook scored consecutive goals in 3 games last month and showed off his goal sense. Then, on August 24, he scored the goal in the Hyundai-Daejun game again, and is ranked as the third place for score. He is happy to be selected as a player of Asian Games.

Ko Jong-su who recovered from injury of a right knee has played mainly in the second half of the game, but has won his fans. Showing off a mature play to give a chance to other players, he is ranked in the 8th place for help.

At that day, ‘World Cup Iron Wall Gatekeeper’, Lee Woon-jae who didn’t play owing to the injury of a left thumb, will appear in ground again.

▽Goal! 〓 Woo Sung-yong (Busan Icons) who scored two consecutive goals in 2 games and won 9 goals is ready to solidify a top scorer in the game to Jeonbuk. Sasa (Sungnam Ilhwa) who is in the second place with 7 goals also is ready to retake the first place in Bucheon-SK game.

Besides, Most of games will be had between top-ranking teams and low-ranking teams; Sungnam (1st place) to Bucheon (9th place), Jeokbuk (2nd place) to Busan (7th place) and Ahnyang (3rd place) to Daejeon(10th place). Soccer fans are concerned about which team will win in the game.

Jong-Koo Yang yjongk@donga.com