North Korea showed overwhelming offensive power and defeated Japan in the 2025 U-17 Women s World Cup, and the Korean media were shocked

The Japanese U-17 women's football team "Little Flower", led by coach Shirai Sadayoshi, faced North Korea in the quarter-finals of the 2025 U-17 Women's World Cup on November 1, local time in Morocco. They eventually lost 1-5 and unfortunately stopped in the quarterfinals. With this victory, the defending champion North Korea U-17 women's football team advanced to the semifinals and will face the Brazilian U-17 women's football team.

Japan unexpectedly lost 1-5 to North Korea. The South Korean media were shocked: "Destroyed by North Korea's physical fitness and fighting spirit "

This game was very intense from the beginning, with a rare situation of scoring three goals in just 8 minutes. Japan's U-17 women's football team conceded a goal in just 38 seconds of the game and lost again in the 6th minute. Although Nakamura Shinoha took advantage of the opponent's mistake to get a goal back in the 8th minute, he conceded goals one after another in the 21st minute, 73rd minute and the 6th minute of stoppage time.

According to the Asian Football Confederation, North Korea U-17 women's football coach Park Sung-jung said after the game: "Today's game is very important for both our team and the Japanese team. Japan is one of the strongest teams in the world. We have made a lot of preparations and are very satisfied with this victory. This is due to the fact that the players fought hard until the last minute of the game."

In addition, in the game against Japan Forward Kim Wan-shim, who scored two goals in the game and currently leads the scorer list with a total of 6 goals, said: "I am very happy to score so many goals. The 6 goals I scored belong not only to me, but to the entire team and the entire delegation. In order to win, I want to score more goals." As a result of this game, North Korea, which showed overwhelming offensive power, took a big step towards its goal of defending the title.

Although the opponent was the previous champion North Korea, the Japanese U-17 women's football team had achieved 3 wins, 1 draw, scored 10 goals and conceded only 1 goal in the previous games, and was making great progress, so this result brought a lot of impact. After the game, the Korean media "OSEN" titled "Shock and horror. The Japanese team, which was sure to win the championship, suffered a 1-5 defeat to North Korea." The report was as follows: "This was a shocking defeat. The Japanese team qualified first in the group with 2 wins and 1 draw, and beat Colombia 4-0 in the first round of the knockout round. The Japanese team's record is 4 games. The game scored 10 goals and conceded 1 goal, showing overwhelming strength. "

The media went on to comment: "However, Japan's technology and tactics were crushed by North Korea's strong physical fitness and fighting spirit. "Given that there was a saying before the game that "this is actually the final," it was difficult to conceal the surprise at this unexpected result.