There is a possibility that South Korea will be banned from participating in the World Cup… FIFA suggests severe sanctions regarding Gwangju FC fraud registration issue, which will affect J1 Kobe
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Gwangju FC, the first division, is flooding with criticism from both domestic and international for Albanian national team forward Yasir Asani's unpaid bond and for reinforcement of players during the period of banned reinforcement.
Although FIFA notified Gwangju FC in December last year that it would ban new players from registering, the club has continued to reinforce it since then, with more than 10 players playing in fraudulent situations.
The club was a hot topic this year when they defeated J1 Vissel Kobe in the Asian Champions League Elite (ACLE), but in that match they used players who had been reinforced while the registration was banned.
Several media outlets including South Korean media Top Star News reported on the 22nd that the International Football Federation (FIFA) suggested that the issue could result in serious sanctions such as losing eligibility for the Korean Football Association's FIFA tournament if disciplinary action against Gwangju FC is not met.
Among the FIFA conventions are tournaments like ACLE, hosted by the AFC, and World Cups where national teams compete in, and if the Korean Football Association does not provide prompt and adequate punishment, it will have a major impact on the Korean soccer world.
Currently, Korean soccer is full of talk about South Korean national team forward Son Heung-min, who plays for Tottenham, who has won the Electro-League Championship, but since FIFA's announcement, all media outlets have been reporting on the “World Cup crisis” all at once, attracting attention.
A similar case of this case is the case of Switzerland's FC Sion, in 2011, in which players acquired during the period of reinforcement bans were used in the EL. Similarly, FIFA has suggested that the Swiss Football Association could be banned from competing in the World Cup if the Swiss national team is not given a prompt punishment.
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In this case, FC Sion was subjected to extremely strict punishment, with a temporary negative point, and Celtic (Scottish), who lost to the club in the EL, also won the right to compete in the main tournament.
