Casey Phair on Tuesday turned the youngest participant to characteristic at a Women’s World Cup after approaching as an alternative to South Korea towards Colombia aged 16 years and 26 days. The striker was born within the United States and was referred to as up by the nation at youth stage, however has now made her debut for South Korea. She got here on within the 78th minute in Sydney and so trumped Nigeria’s Ifeanyi Chiejine, who was 16 years and 34 days when she performed on the 1999 World Cup.

Phair, born to an American father and Korean mom, is the primary participant of combined descent to make the senior South Korean girls’s soccer squad.

Speaking on the eve of the Colombia sport, South Korea’s English coach Colin Bell mentioned he was keen to guard {the teenager}.

“So now she’s in the squad, then we just take it day by day, so I don’t really want to hype up a young player too much before she’s even played,” he mentioned.

“That’s why I’ve been safeguarding her from the media.”

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