"Let's set up the European office of the Football Association!" Klinsmann, who is one step further due to lack of overseas telecommuting
The South Korean national soccer team, led by head coach Klinsmann, will play the first round of the evaluation in October against Tunisia at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on the 13th. After that, the venue will be moved to Suwon World Cup Stadium on the 17th to hold the second match against Vietnam.
The national team was called up to Paju NFC on the 9th and held its first training session. Ahead of the training, Klinsmann met with reporters and held a press conference to explain the recent controversy surrounding him.
As the problem of living abroad emerged, coach Klinsmann changed his schedule to Munich to see Kim Min-jae after two consecutive European away matches in September and returned home with the players on the 14th. At Incheon International Airport, he joked to reporters, saying, "You called me here." Klinsmann was well aware of the criticism surrounding him in Korea through a press briefing by an association official.
However, he left for the U.S. only five days later and did not budge. Since then, he immediately appeared on the broadcast as an ESPN panel, and the "controversy over two jobs" also erupted. The coach who should take care of the K-League players first talked about Harry Kane and Lionel Messi first. Fans are furious.
Klinsmann said, "Football is a pleasure for me. Just because I'm on the show doesn't mean I'm a two-job. It is a process to learn world football. Of course, the broadcasting company is receiving an appearance fee, but I don't know for sure how much I'm getting," he explained.
Rumors are circulating among K League players that "Coach Klinsmann doesn't care about the K League." In fact, the representative player from the K League said, "Coach Cha Du-ri said, 'Don't care about the criticism, just train hard.'
It is right that the association should take a good look at talented overseas players. However, some raise the question that the K League, the basis of Korean soccer, is too neglected. In response, Klinsmann said, "The role of the national team is a little different. Of course, if I were a K-League manager, I would have stayed in Korea. However, the national team coach should know what happens in Europe. "When there is no game in Korea, I have to watch the Champs game and go to Europe," he replied.
Furthermore, Klinsmann suggested, "Let's create a football association office in Europe." "The Korean Association should also open an office in London or Europe," he said. Aren't 70% of the players in Europe? My job is to lead Korea to win the Asian Cup. So we need to watch more of the world games," he suggested.
Currently, 13 out of 24 members of the national soccer team are overseas. However, the proportion of K-leaguers is also not small, with 11 and 45.8%. In particular, most of the defensive lines and goalkeepers are K-League players. Klinsmann seems to have entrusted coach Cha with his work on the K League, saying, "Coach Cha Du-ri watches the K League a lot." It is questionable whether only Clins, who only received reports about K-League players, will be able to hide the player's good and bad with his own eyes.
Among the 13 players from overseas, Hwang Ui-jo (Norwich City), Son Heung-min (Tottenham) and Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton) are playing in England, while German Bundesliga players are divided into three players: Lee Jae-sung (Mainz), Jung Woo-young (Stuttgart), and Kim Min-jae (Bayern Munich).
Lee Kang-in (PSG) is France, Hwang In-beom (Turbena) is Serbia, Oh Hyun-kyu (Celtic) is Scotland, Cho Kyu-sung (Mitt Whelan) is Denmark, and Hong Hyun-seok (Hent) is Belgium, and even in Europe, the countries vary widely. Like Kim Seung-gyu (Al-Shabab), there are also Middle Easterners. Even if a soccer association office is established in London or Munich, it is difficult to take care of all the variously distributed overseas teams.
Of course, there are many net functions of overseas offices. You can quickly take care of the national team players locally and get better cooperation from the club. However, as the national team staff focuses on overseas players, there is a concern that domestic players will be relatively alienated. Even if he belongs to an overseas team, he may be inferior to the domestic team if he is unable to play due to competition within the team. In other words, players with good form in the K League should be given a fair opportunity because they are as competitive as overseas players. 온라인카지노
An official from the Korea Football Association said, "In Japan, we operate an office in Munich. We are also understanding how Japan operates. There are only 17 Japanese players playing in Germany until the second division. There is a dedicated physical trainer in the association's office, which serves as a love room for players to come for post-match massages, he said.
Another official said, "If there are few people in the office, it can only be a protocol task to greet officials who come to Europe." "Even if the national team staff is there, it is difficult to know all the circumstances of the team," he added.