Park Ji-sung on reserve for best team

Korea national soccer team’s captain Park Ji-sung has been put on the reserve list for the 2010 South Africa World Cup best team. 

Eurosport of Britain selected best 11 from the players at 2010 South Africa World Cup with grade points from professionals and netizens.

On the list of best 11 are Keisuke Honda (Japan), Diego Forlan (Uruguay) as two tops, David Villa (Spain), Wesley Sneijder (Netherland), Schweinsteiger (Germany), Giovanni dos Santos (Mexico) as midfielders, Nadir Belhadji (Algeria), John Mensah (Gana), Yuji (Japan), Philipp Lahm (Germany) as defenders, and Diego Benaglio (Swiss) as goalkeeper.

Park was on the list of honorary reserves. Eurosport said “Park was heartbeat of Korea midfield. He helped his team to advance to 16th with goal in game with Greece.”

Captain Park played full time in all four games, leading his team to the best 16 overseas for the first time, and became the “co-top Asian scorer with three goals, and won the largest number of games with 5 wins among Korean players.

Along with Ji-sung on the honorary reserve list are Andes Iniesta (Spain), Kevin Boateng (Ghana), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Muller (Germany), Assamoah Gyan (Ghana), Robson de Souza (Brazil), Alexis Sanchez (Chile), Winston Reid (New Zealand), Stephane Grichting (Swiss), Ryan Nelson (New Zealand), Nagamoto Yuto (Japan) and Richard Kingson (Ghana)