German coach Jurgen Klinsmann (58) takes the helm of the Korean men’s soccer team. As a player, he led the ‘tank corps’ and won several championships and achieved results as a manager, but there are also concerns due to his long hiatus and frequent noise.
The Korea Football Association announced on the 27th that it had appointed Klinsman as the new head coach of the national team. His contract period is about 3 years and 5 months from next month until the 2026 World Cup finals in North and Central America. He is the 9th foreign men’s national team head coach and the 2nd German coach following coach Uli Stielike from 2014 to 2017.
Coach Klinsman will return to Korea next week and make his debut in a friendly match against Colombia on the 24th in Ulsan. “It is an honor to follow the coaches who have guided Korea from Guus Hiddink to Paulo Bento,” he said. “I will do my best to achieve successful results in the upcoming Asian Cup and 2026 World Cup.
He was a world-class striker during his playing days. For the German national team, he played 108 A matches and scored 47 goals. He participated in the 1988, 1992, and 1996 European Championships (Euro) and the 1990, 1994, and 1998 World Cups consecutively, playing a leading role in winning the 1990 Italian World Cup and 1996 Euro.
In 2004, he took the helm of the German national team and led the team to third place at the 2006 World Cup held in his home country. He led the U.S. national team for five years from 2011, winning the 2013 North and Central American Championships and advancing to the round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. On the other hand, in 2008, when he took over as manager of Bayern Munich in Germany, he was sacked within a year.
A question mark is attached to whether he meets the criteria for selecting a new coach announced by the Football Association. Michael Müller, head of the National Team Power Enhancement Committee, set forth five criteria: professionalism, manager’s experience, clear motivation, teamwork ability, and environmental factors.
The biggest concern is the long hiatus. After stepping down from the US national team, he was virtually unemployed as his coach. In November 2019, he became manager of Hertha Berlin, but resigned after 77 days due to a conflict with the club. This raises questions about his professionalism.
Han Jun-hee, exclusive commentator at Coupang Play, said, “In fast-changing modern football, even taking a break of two years is criticized for being old, but I haven’t been a proper leader for six years. He should hope that he has been studying soccer well,” he said.
This is why coaching staff is so important. One committee member said, “I wasn’t a tactician type in the past,” and said, “It’s an established theory that I entrusted the tactics to then-head coach Joachim Löw during the German national team days.” The association announced that it plans to discuss with the coach and finalize the coaching staff.
While coaching Hertha, he unilaterally resigned via Facebook Live without prior discussion with the club, drawing criticism in Germany. However메이저사이트, the controversy over working from home, which was a problem in the past, was resolved through the terms of the contract, and the ‘environmental factor’ was satisfied. Coach Klinsman received criticism for living in the United States while working as a German coach and entrusting field work to head coach Löw, but the Korea Football Association announced that he had signed a contract on the condition of “living in Korea for the duration of his tenure.”
He was a world-class striker during his playing days. For the German national team, he played 108 A matches and scored 47 goals. He participated in the 1988, 1992, and 1996 European Championships (Euro) and the 1990, 1994, and 1998 World Cups consecutively, playing a leading role in winning the 1990 Italian World Cup and 1996 Euro.
In 2004, he took the helm of the German national team and led the team to third place at the 2006 World Cup held in his home country. He led the U.S. national team for five years from 2011, winning the 2013 North and Central American Championships and advancing to the round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. On the other hand, in 2008, when he took over as manager of Bayern Munich in Germany, he was sacked within a year.
A question mark is attached to whether he meets the criteria for selecting a new coach announced by the Football Association. Michael Müller, head of the National Team Power Enhancement Committee, set forth five criteria: professionalism, manager’s experience, clear motivation, teamwork ability, and environmental factors.
The biggest concern is the long hiatus. After stepping down from the US national team, he was virtually unemployed as his coach. In November 2019, he became manager of Hertha Berlin, but resigned after 77 days due to a conflict with the club. This raises questions about his professionalism.
Han Jun-hee, exclusive commentator at Coupang Play, said, “In fast-changing modern football, even taking a break of two years is criticized for being old, but I haven’t been a proper leader for six years. He should hope that he has been studying soccer well,” he said.
This is why coaching staff is so important. One committee member said, “I wasn’t a tactician type in the past,” and said, “It’s an established theory that I entrusted the tactics to then-head coach Joachim Löw during the German national team days.” The association announced that it plans to discuss with the coach and finalize the coaching staff.
While coaching Hertha, he unilaterally resigned via Facebook Live without prior discussion with the club, drawing criticism in Germany. However, the controversy over working from home, which was a problem in the past, was resolved through the terms of the contract, and the ‘environmental factor’ was satisfied. Coach Klinsman received criticism for living in the United States while working as a German coach and entrusting field work to head coach Löw, but the Korea Football Association announced that he had signed a contract on the condition of “living in Korea for the duration of his tenure.”