Myanmar women's football coach Bell holds soft spot for ex-team S. Korea
Colin Bell may have stopped coaching the South Korean women's national football team two years ago, but he loves his adopted country so much that he still lives there. And admittedly, it was "a strange feeling" to face South Korea as an opponent at the Asian Games in Japan on Monday, he says. Bell, the English tactician now coaching Myanmar, lost to his former team 5-0 on Monday to begin the…
Colin Bell has a soft spot for his former South Korean women's national football team despite coaching them two years ago. He currently resides in South Korea and is now the coach of the Myanmar women's team. On Monday at the Asian Games in Japan, Bell's team faced off against his former South Korean team and lost 5-0 in a match at Nagai Stadium in Osaka.
Bell, who coached the Taegeuk Ladies from 2019 to 2024, took over the Myanmar team last month. Despite his players' efforts, Bell acknowledged that they were no match for the South Korean team's superior quality. He told his players to give their all during the training, but ultimately, the South Korean team proved to be too strong for them.
Bell expressed his admiration for the South Korean players, even though they were playing in red and his new team was wearing white.
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