Players on the Korean men's national football team warm up before a training session for the FIFA World Cup at Zions Bank Training Center in Herriman, Utah, Thursday (local time). Yonhap
Korea will play the first of their two friendly matches in their pre-World Cup training camp this weekend in Utah, with the start of the big tournament only days away.
Coached by Hong Myung-bo, world No. 25 Korea will face 102nd-ranked Trinidad and Tobago at BYU South Field in Provo, Utah, on the campus of Brigham Young University, at 7 p.m. Saturday (local time), or 10 a.m. Sunday (Korean time).
The Taegeuk Warriors have been training in Salt Lake City, some 60 kilometers north of Provo, since mid-May in their prep for the World Cup. After Trinidad and Tobago, Korea will take on El Salvador at the same venue at 7 p.m. next Wednesday (local time), or 10 a.m. Thursday (Korean time).
Korea will then travel to the Mexican city of Guadalajara, the site of their World Cup base camp and two of their three Group A matches. Korea will kick off the World Cup against Czechia there on June 11.
