Its weird to me that North Korea's good player isn't even North Korean. Apparently he has a maternal connection and his dad is South Korean but he was born and raised in Japan with a South Korean passport that he actually turned in to play for NK.
I appreciate how soccer doesn't tinker with the rules frequently like the NHL. It would be one thing if changes were made to improve the game but it seems like to me that NHL changes have almost exclusively been made to cater to commercial interests and dwindling North American attention spans. I don't think it's superior but I love the respect for tradition and history.
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