Lee Geum-min (29, Brighton), a striker of the South Korean women's national soccer team, replied to the question of how hard it is to do "high-intensity physical training" led by coach Colin Bell.

The national soccer team continued its call-up training for the 2023 FIFA Australia and New Zealand Women's World Cup at the Paju National Football Team Training Center (NFC) in the morning of the 30th.

The national players, who were called up on the 18th, have already been sweating every day through the midsummer heat and rainy season for 13 days.

With the tournament just 20 days away, the focus of Bell's training is on "strengthening physical strength."

They train a lot of interval training, which repeats taking a rest after rapidly increasing the speed. The goal is to allow players to carry out explosive activities in practice several times with uniform strength.

It is also a training that is in contact with Bell's soccer philosophy, "high intensity."

In the training, which was unveiled for the first 20 minutes, the players warmed up lightly and ran four times, crossing obstacles along the sideline.

The players' faces were distorted. An official from the national team explained to reporters, "This is the warm-up."

Lee Geum-min, who is on the axis of good physical strength in the national team, also showed his tongue in Bell's physical training.

He met with reporters and said, "I like to eat, but after training, my appetite disappears. "I think I'm more affected by the (hot) weather," he said.

"But it doesn't make you run super fast. It's not like you're going around the playground recklessly. I think that's so good," he said, stressing, "We are also given enough time to rest."

In the meantime, the national team, which has taken a day off every weekend, will be on vacation for three days from the afternoon to Sunday after the training this week.

Lee Geum-min is more positive about Bell's high-intensity physical training because he has faced foreign players with good physique in Europe. 스포츠토토탑

Lee Geum-min said, "Overseas players have good physical and physical strength," adding, "All players, not one or two, have to do this." It's not because it's the World Cup, but modern soccer has a really fast speed of switching between offense and defense. "It is grateful to experience this training in itself," he said.

This is the third World Cup for Lee Geum-. Nevertheless, he said, "I'm still very excited and nervous. "A lot of reporters came today, but I think I'll realize it when I go to Australia," he said with a smile.

Lee Geum-min has played 80 A matches but has yet to score a goal in the World Cup.

"There's not much greed in goals," he said. "No matter who scores, we just need to win," he said, adding, "I imagine scoring a goal every day. "I do everything I can do with the ceremony because it's in my imagination," he said with a smile.

South Korea, ranked 17th in the FIFA rankings, was placed in Group H along with Germany (2nd), Colombia (25th), and Morocco (72nd).

It is true that it seems difficult to make it to the top 2 given a ticket to the round of 16, but Lee Geum-min was confident of achieving his goal.