MONTREAL, June 21 (Reuters) - Football coaches are paid to make difficult decisions and there will have been few tougher than the one faced on Sunday by South Korea's Yoon Deok-yeo, who choose to drop star player Ji So-yun ahead of their World Cup last 16 game against France.
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Yoon decided not to risk further injury to England's player of the year after she picked up a thigh strain in their 2-1 group game win over Spain, and without their world-class forward Korea were played off the park at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.