South Korean soccer team tells of ‘rough’ match in Pyongyang

South Korean national soccer team player Son Heung-min answers a reporter's question upon his arrival after soccer match against rth Korea, at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. rth Korea held South Korea to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in a World Cup qualifying soccer match played in an empty stium in Pyongyang, but specific details of game weren't immediately available. South Korean soccer officials were unable to watch a telecast of historic game at Kim Il Sung Stium and South Korean spectators and media were denied entry. South Korea’s national soccer team has described its World Cup qualifier against rth Korea in Pyongyang as a “rough” and strange match.

historic match Tuesday ended in a scoreless draw at huge Kim Il Sung Stium, which was empty of spectators. Tottenham striker Son Heung-min said Thursday he would long remember Pyongyang match as an unusual experience and claimed South Korean players were lucky to avoid injury against rth Koreans, who he said were “very sensitive and rough.” team’s general manr Choi Young-il says South Korean soccer association will discuss wher to submit a complaint to FIFA over what he described as rth Korea’s failure to properly accommodate visiting team and decision to block media and spectators.