The All-Star squad of the top Korean football league will not back down against the Premier League giants Manchester City in their upcoming friendly match, the team's head coach said Tuesday. Chung Jung-yong will be in charge of Team K League against Manchester City at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul. It will be the first of two matches for the fifth annual Coupang Play Series, organized by the namesake streaming service, with Man City also set to play the Spanish club Atletico Madrid on Sunday. Chung, who coaches the reigning K League 1 champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, will manage 24 All-Stars, an eclectic mix of homegrown talent and foreign-born stars. Despite some key absences following the end of the FIFA World Cup, Man City will be the favorites in the match — a preseason contest for the English side but a midseason contest for Team K League, with all the members having played just this past weekend. At the prematch press conference at Bucheon Stadium in Bucheon, west of Seoul, Chung thanked the match organizers for "this opportunity to play against a world-