Yes, it’s true. North Korea are officially the Unofficial Football World Champions. Heads will shake and eyebrows will raise but, in beating former champions Japan 1-0 on Tuesday, North Korea won the UFWC title and took (virtual) possession of the CW Alcock Cup. It’s a shock that many football fans are still getting used to, with North Korea becoming one of the least likely champions the game has
[caption id="attachment_1992" align="right" textalign="center" width="304" caption="Entrance to Kim Il Sung Stadium, Pyongyang, photo by John Pavelka (Flickr)"][/caption]North Korea 1-0 Japan 15/11/2011, Pyongyang Scorer: Pak Nam-Chol Japan's long reign as UFWC champions came to an end today in Pyongyang, as North Korea became the new unofficial football world champions. Midfielder Nam Chol Pak wa
Followers of the UFWC will know that the lineage of the unofficial competition goes back to 1872, when the first official international football match was played between Scotland and England. Current UFWC champions Japan didn’t play their first international football match until 1917 (against China), and didn’t play a UFWC title match until 1998 (against Argentina). But, as the above image shows,
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