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The back story of Lee Young-pyo and Jeon Hyun-moo, who finished the broadcast of the third Group A match between the South Korean national soccer team and the South African national team in the 2026 North American World Cup group stage, has been told.

It is on KBS2 TV's "The Boss's Ears Are Donkey Ears," which aired on the 28th.

Lee Young-pyo, who joined the dinner table, apologized on behalf of the soccer player, saying, "I'm sorry. I should have won."

"Today's game was the most difficult broadcast of all time. From the beginning to the end, nothing was done properly," he criticized.

He also revealed why there was a lot of silence throughout the wake.

"The game itself was not good from beginning to end," Lee Young-pyo said. "I have nothing to say because I have to keep talking about bad things."

"It wasn't a game of 'I lost but I fought well'," he said. The game itself was a problem," he pointed out.

In response, Jeon Hyun-moo said, "I may lose. However, if you show everything you have to show and lose, you can say, "Well done," he said. "But I don't know what the hell you did."

However, Jeon Hyun-moo drew a line on the atmosphere in which criticism against the national team is concentrated on the players. "The players are not guilty," he stressed.

Upon hearing this, Lee Young-pyo once again bowed his head, saying, "I'm sorry."

At the same time, he diagnosed the biggest problem in the match against South Africa as a 'total crisis'.

Lee Young-pyo said, "I couldn't pick up one problem. There was no structure and no purpose, he said. "It was a difficult evaluation to even check why the players were playing."

"I think the coach accounts for 50% of winning and losing the game," he said, expressing regret over "Son Heung-min's exclusion from selection."

The Korean national soccer team finished the tournament in 34th place, with only one win and two losses in the group stage, not even the top eight teams in each group.

Meanwhile, Hong Myung-bo, head coach of the national soccer team, held a press conference on the 29th and resigned as head coach of the national team.