# Korean Football Without Wind, This Time 'Playing Cards' Controversy

The aftermath of the Asian Cup is still continuing. This time, suspicions were raised that some players and the Korea Football Association staff played gambling cards during the Asian Cup. The Korea Football Association said, "It is completely different from gambling," but removed the employee from the position.

According to the soccer community on the 13th, it was belatedly known that some national team players and association staff A used chips to play cards during an off-season training in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ahead of the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup.

Amid the aftermath of the "table tennis gate" scandal, in which Son Heung-min Tottenham Hotspur and Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain) clashed during the tournament, problems with the atmosphere, discipline, and management of the team in the national team were revealed once again as it was revealed that players and association staff played cards at stake.

As the controversy grew, the association also started explaining. The association said in a statement posted on its official website, "We have set up and operated a lounge so that players can freely spend their free time in their accommodation when participating in competitions World Cup, Asian Cup, etc. with a long call-up period," adding, "In this tournament, the lounge was equipped with cards, Go, board games, yutnori, PlayStation, and karaoke equipment, and players could find and use it when they needed it."

"The facility can only be used by players, but I am sorry that the staff was in the space together. As for the part where the support staff played cards with the players in the lounge, it was found to be true and we judge it as inappropriate behavior," he said.

However, he denied allegations that he played gambling-like cards. "In many cases, the team is operated with a small amount of betting, such as betting on goalposts at the training ground, board games and PlayStation in the lounge, and paying for drinks," the association said. "It is completely different from gambling."

Finally, the association delivered internal guidelines to all staff members at the time of the Asian Cup's call to minimize contact with the players and allow the players to focus on the competition as much as possible, unless it is explicitly necessary. However, the person in question was raised internally because of inappropriate business operations as the team leader, such as violating the internal guidelines of the national team, and it was also confirmed in the investigation results. "We held a personnel committee on February 20 to dismiss the employee and conduct several investigations into the person concerned and surrounding employees." Based on the results, we will hold a personnel committee later to take disciplinary action against the person concerned," he said. [토토사이트 추천](https://edwardsrailcar.com/)