Updated Apr.22,2008 06:06 KST

Korean Olympic Soccer Team Grouped With Italy
The Korean Olympic soccer team will face Italy, Cameroon and Honduras in Group D at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Team Korea's first match will be with the African dark horse, Cameroon on Aug. 7 at a stadium outside Beijing. Korea will then be pitted against Italy and Honduras the following week.

The road to the quarterfinals where the top two countries from each group advances is expected to be a bumpy one for Korea, according to some soccer experts.

Italy won a bronze medal in the 2004 Athens Games and Cameroon clinched the gold in the 2000 Sydney Games.

Arirang News