🐰🐯𝗃𝖺𝗒－𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾⁷🐍🇵🇷🇵🇸🦊🐉

Part time Waterbender, full time asshole. ARMY. Roady. Carat. Atiny. Stay. Austin FC. Dallas Stars. Liverpool FC. Wangxian. Long live Ohtani and Yamamoto

[Joel Kim @KNTFootball]

🚨 | 𝐒𝐎𝐍: “𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍…”

Son Heung-min updated his IG 👀

Here’s the full English translation of what he wrote:

“I don’t even know where to begin. I can’t pretend not to know what’s happened, nor do I want to avoid facing reality.

First of all, I want to sincerely apologize to the people of South Korea and to all the fans who love Korean football.

As someone who loves football myself, if I had watched a match like this, I would have felt deeply disappointed, frustrated, and heartbroken. That’s why I don’t think a single “I’m sorry” could ever fully express the disappointment and pain our fans are feeling. Even saying those words feels painfully inadequate.

Every day, every moment, countless emotions have been crossing my mind. I wanted to make sure I shared at least these thoughts with all of you who have been going through an even harder time than anyone else.

This tournament meant more to me than anything. It feels as though the “stage of a child’s dream” that I’ve always spoken about has come crashing down. To be honest, even now it isn’t easy to accept this reality. When I think about the far greater disappointment and pain our fans must be carrying, I hesitate to even speak about my own feelings. I believe the emotions you’re experiencing are no different from mine.

I know how much has been sacrificed for this stage. I also feel an enormous sense of responsibility for not being able to repay the time, support, unwavering encouragement, and love you have given us. I am truly, deeply sorry. And to everyone who believed in us, supported us until the very end, and stood by our side, I sincerely thank you.

Rather than trying to express everything with words right now, I will do my very best from where I stand to win back the hearts of the people of South Korea and our football fans. I will dedicate my life to football so that I can once again bring you joy. I have never forgotten the promises I made to you. Until the day you call for me again, until the day you need me again, I will pour everything I have into preparing myself to return stronger.

Lastly, it pains me to ask something of you again in a situation like this, and I feel truly sorry for doing so. But rather than directing excessive criticism and hurt toward all of the players, I sincerely ask that you continue to send them your warm support and encouragement, even though I know this is incredibly difficult.

Thank you for taking the time to read this long message.”

I will always love this man. My hero. My captain. 🫡🇰🇷

#손흥민

[Joel Kim @KNTFootball]

🚨 | 𝐉𝐈𝐍 𝐉𝐎𝐍𝐆-𝐎𝐇 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐊𝐅𝐀 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏

Olympic legend and National assembly member Jin Jong-oh held a press conference today calling for the entire leadership of the KFA to resign and demanding a full investigation into the appointment process of head coach Hong.

Here's the entire translated speech. It's worth the read and also a good primer for those unfamiliar with the problems/corruption of the KFA:

"To the people of Korea, football fans, and my fellow lawmakers,

I can barely contain my anger. What we are feeling today goes far beyond disappointment—it is devastation.

The catastrophic collapse of Korean football at this World Cup was not an accident. It was a tragedy that many saw coming.

First and foremost, I want to express my deepest respect and gratitude to our national team players, who gave everything they had on the field. We will never forget your sacrifice, your effort, and your commitment to representing our nation.

However, Head Coach Hong Myung-bo, who failed to deliver, and the Korea Football Association, which protected him as a shield to preserve its own power, must now face judgment without excuses.

In September 2024, I warned that the appointment of Hong Myung-bo was the product of backroom deals and organized collusion. Yet the Korea Football Association ignored those warnings. It refused to cooperate fully with parliamentary investigations, withheld documents, and misled both the National Assembly and the Korean people.

When football fans demanded answers, Chairman Chung Mong-gyu and the entrenched leadership of the KFA responded not with accountability, but with arrogance. They shut out the voices of the people and acted as though they were beyond criticism.

Two years ago, they attempted to cover up the crisis by sacrificing a few individuals while leaving the system itself untouched. That arrogance allowed a broken structure to remain in place, and today we have witnessed the inevitable result: Korean football has become the subject of ridicule on the world stage.

But let me be clear. This is not a problem that can simply be solved by the resignations of Chairman Chung Mong-gyu and Coach Hong Myung-bo alone.

As Park Ji-sung and commentator Park Moon-sung have both lamented, as long as an entrenched cartel that values power over competence continues to dominate Korean football, there is no future for the sport—not even one percent.

Let me repeat that.

This crisis cannot be resolved through symbolic resignations. The Korea Sports Council must also accept responsibility. No one should be allowed to use the resignation of a chairman or head coach as an excuse to avoid uncovering the full truth or escaping accountability.

Even if it means enduring a difficult period while preparing for next year's Asian Cup, the only path forward is the complete dismantling of the Korea Football Association's current structure and rebuilding it from the ground up.

Therefore, I strongly call for the following.

First, everyone under Chairman Chung Mong-gyu's leadership must immediately resign and accept full responsibility for both this disaster and the subsequent cover-up.

Second, everyone involved in Hong Myung-bo's appointment must fully disclose the truth about the backroom negotiations, illegal practices, and unfair procedures that surrounded the hiring process, and cooperate without exception in a thorough and impartial investigation.

Third, I call on the government and the Korea Sports Council to immediately launch a comprehensive special audit of the Korea Football Association. Everyone connected to this entrenched system of privilege and favoritism must be held fully accountable under both the law and administrative regulations.

Disasters are not repeated by chance.

They are repeated when corrupt systems are allowed to remain untouched.

We must take Korean football back from the hands of corrupt institutions and return it to where it belongs—with the Korean people.

I, too, will not back down. I will continue to fight for a full investigation without sacred cows and for genuine reform.

Finally, together with the Sports Corruption Reporting Center, I will establish a dedicated Korea Football Association Corruption Reporting Center to receive reports of misconduct related to the KFA.

To root out opaque administration and corruption, and to rebuild Korean football on a foundation of transparency and integrity, I ask for the courage of the Korean people and football fans to come forward with information.

Thank you."

🫡🇰🇷

[Inside Reality Football @RealityLfc]

🚨Philip Coutinho on his regrets for leaving Liverpool to Barcelona.

🗣️“As a footballer making decisions on your future has to be the hardest thing ever, I spent couple of months and still couldn’t figure out the right way.”

“I wanted to achieve my dreams and play with the best players which didn’t come true as I was thinking it will. I wish I never left at this beautiful club Liverpool.”

“I wouldn’t advise anyone to go through what happened in my career. It’s simple to understand and to make choices as a player but my regret is why I didn’t continue playing for Liverpool at then.”

[Joel Kim @KNTFootball]

🎙️ | 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆: “𝐈’𝐌 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍…𝐈 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈’𝐌 𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐘…” 🙏

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Hong addresses media and confirms he is stepping down.

The Hong era is now over…for good. 🫡🇰🇷

[Joel Kim @KNTFootball]

🎙️ | 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐄: "𝐖𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐅𝐀 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐒𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍..." 😤

President of South Korea, Lee Jae-myung weighed in on the World Cup debacle with a lengthy but thorough message vowing reform and change and addressing systemic issues that have led to our worst World Cup:

🗣️"As a former honorary professional football club chairman and, at heart, a member of the Red Devils supporters, I am not just surprised by this unexpected result—I am deeply dumbfounded.

Once again, this has proven that personnel decisions determine everything. When loyalty and favoritism are valued more than competence, and incapable people are chosen to lead, the outcome is as predictable as daylight.

The reason such poor appointments are possible—where people fail to distinguish between public and private interests and put personal gain ahead of the public good—is because those with appointment power are not adequately monitored, checked, or held accountable.

Ultimately, every organization requires democratic governance, proper oversight, and a clear alignment between authority and responsibility.

Establishing democratic leadership structures and objective systems of oversight and accountability in the private sector is one of this administration's key policy goals.

Just as we changed the leadership selection process at the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NongHyup) to direct elections by its members, I previously instructed that sports organizations such as the Korea Sports Council and the Korea Football Association move away from indirect elections by a small group of delegates and instead adopt direct elections involving all members of their respective sporting communities. To my knowledge, this process is progressing well.

Building a strict system of oversight to ensure transparency, fairness, and objectivity—and holding individuals accountable for both their actions and their results—is another important task.

This failure to qualify for the World Cup finals, which has left the Korean people deeply disappointed, appears to be the result of failures in both organizational management and personnel decisions.

Given that World Cup participation involves significant taxpayer money and national resources, I ask the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to thoroughly investigate exactly what happened, analyze the causes, and prepare comprehensive measures to prevent a recurrence and improve the system.

I sincerely apologize to the Korean people for the deep disappointment caused by this unacceptable outcome. We will move swiftly to reform our sports administration so that something like this never happens again."
_____________
Any change must come from the very top. 🙏

This is a start. 🫡🇰🇷

[DuB @NotQuiteLikeDuB]

damn bruh niggas down -1000 points 😭 nigga got his ass beat by sailor gay moon

[Joel Kim @KNTFootball]

SPAIN WIN!!! 🥳🥳🥳

After 2 frustrating days of results against us, Korea get handed a MASSIVE lifeline by Spain who send Uruguay home. 😮‍💨😮‍💨

Magic number to advance: 2️⃣

Coming up: Egypt vs Iran. 👀

If Egypt pull off a win, it would mark an encouraging turnaround for Korea’s chances to R32. 👏

[🐰🐯𝗃𝖺𝗒－𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾⁷🐍🇵🇷🇵🇸🦊🐉 @bri2229]

RT @KNTFootball: Today (6.26) we are team 🇪🇬, 🇧🇪, 🇪🇸 & 🇪🇬.

Our last big day of “doables” (✅)

Group G (✅):
🇪🇬 must beat 🇮🇷 | 6.26 11PM EST…

[Orlando Magic HQ @OMagicHQ]

The Orlando Magic draft Izaiyah Nelson out of USF with the 51st pick in the 2026 NBA Draft.

Nelson was the 2025-26 AAC’s player of the year, defensive player of the year and newcomer of the year.

Thoughts?

[Orlando Magic HQ @OMagicHQ]

Oh, wait.

[The Sixth Man Show @SixthManShow]

With the 46th pick, your Orlando Magic select Felix Okpara from the University of Tennessee!

[MLB @MLB]

JHL x Sonny 🤩

Jung Hoo Lee is sporting Son Heung-min’s jersey ahead of South Korea’s World Cup match tonight!

#FIFAWorldCup #Football #SouthKorea

[Snoopy @snoopyb047]

Let's go korea 🇰🇷

[theKFA @theKFA]

남아공전에 나서는 대한민국 축구국가대표팀🇰🇷 선발 라인업을 공개합니다.

한계를 넘어 하나된 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐬✨

✔2026 FIFA 북중미 월드컵 조별리그 3차전
vs. 남아프리카공화국 6/25(목) 10:00
@몬테레이 스타디움
⏰한국시간 기준
📺JTBC, KBS2, 치지직

#대한민국 #축구국가대표팀 #FIFAWorldCup2026

[🐰🐯𝗃𝖺𝗒－𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾⁷🐍🇵🇷🇵🇸🦊🐉 @bri2229]

@Variety @OwenGleiberman Y’all hated Sinners, so your opinion is null and void

[🐰🐯𝗃𝖺𝗒－𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾⁷🐍🇵🇷🇵🇸🦊🐉 @bri2229]

Uhhhhh sure. Sure, ignoring one kid to uplift another could be considered a sacrifice, yes

[Autosport @autosport]

Liam Lawson was asked about the sacrifices his family made to help him get to F1 🥹

[John Smith @verypopularname]

I believe the Mexican duck comes from Waddle-ajara.

[The Redmen TV @TheRedmenTV]

Tribute to Diogo Jota during the Portuguese national anthem 🇵🇹🫶

Forever 20 ♾️

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Happy birthday, Jürgen 🎂

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool’s Greatest - No.57: Diogo Jota ❤️

🔗 https://t.co/2E4GJxYH86