The Korea Football Association (KFA) issued an apology on Saturday afternoon for its failure to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

The Korea Football Association posted an apology on its website titled "Failure to Qualify for the Olympic Football Program".

"We would like to express our deepest apologies to football fans, footballers, and the public for the failure to qualify for the Paris Olympics," the apology reads, "We understand that the KFA is responsible for the development and support of the national football team, so we would like to bow our heads and apologize once again."

Hwang Sun-hong's South Korea U-23 national team lost a penalty shootout to Shin Tae-yong's Indonesia U-23 national team in the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup 2024 at the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, earlier today. The tournament served as the final Asian qualifier for men's soccer at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and South Korea needed to reach at least the quarterfinals to qualify for the Paris Games.

With their quarterfinal exit, South Korea failed to qualify for the Olympic Games for the 10th consecutive time. It's been 40 years since the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

The following is the full text of the apology issued by the Korea Football Association.

We would like to express our sincere apologies to all 스포츠토토 football fans, footballers and the Korean public for today's loss in the quarterfinals of the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup, which ended our hopes of qualifying for the Olympic Games in Paris.

The coaching staff and players gave their all to qualify for our 10th consecutive Olympic Games, but we fell short of our goal.

We recognize that the overall responsibility for developing and supporting the national soccer team lies with the Korea Football Association, and we would like to express our sincere apologies.

We will take a close look at our player and coach development and national team management systems and find ways to improve them so that failures like today's will not be repeated in the future.

The KFA will do its best to finalize the selection of the national team's head coach, which is the immediate task at hand, and to bring joy to the people of Korea with good performances in the upcoming Asian qualifiers for the 2026 North and Central American World Cup.

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