Wolverhampton Wanderers forward Hwang Hee-chan has said he is ready to play where needed for his national team in the absence of striker Hwang Ui-jo when South Korea face the UAE in a 2022 World Cup qualifier on Thursday.
South Korea sit second in Group A in the third and final round of the qualifying stage for next year's finals. They trail group leaders Iran by two points after four games. The top two in each group progress to the tournament in Qatar. Next up for Paulo Bento's side is a UAE team who have made themselves tough to beat, having drawn three and lost one - a narrow defeat to Iran.
Korea enter the match without one of their leading forwards after Bordeaux's Hwang was forced to pull out of the squad with a hamstring injury, but they can call on the services of Wolves' in-form Hwang, who has scored four goals in eight Premier League games since joining the club on loan from RB Leipzig.
"It's a shame Ui-jo can't be with us this time. He's done so much for us," Yonhap quoted Hwang as saying. "Whether it will be on the wings or up the middle, I'll be ready to jump in and put on the best performance possible for our fans.
"We have a lot of great players on this team and we'll be prepared for these matches."
South Korea, who have played at every World Cup since 1986, host the UAE in Goyang, where fans will be permitted into the stadium for the first qualifier since the start of the pandemic, before travelling to Doha to meet Iraq five days later.
"I've talked to my teammates already about finally playing in front of fans," Hwang, 25, said. "We're all extra motivated to do well for them. We'll try to put on an entertaining show for our supporters."
Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
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