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KFA board member to leave for Europe, two candidates for national team coach interview are ‘master teacher’ Poyet + ‘separately recommended’ Wagner

The search for a new national coach is coming to a head.

Lee Im-sang, the Korean Football Association’s (KFA) technical director who took over from resigned power-enhancement chairman Chung Eui-sung, left for Europe on Tuesday. For face-to-face interviews. The outlines of the candidates who will meet in person have been revealed. “Lee will meet with former Greece national team coach Gus Poyet (57) and former Norwich City manager David Wagner (53),” an official familiar with the soccer world told Sports Chosun.

Chung announced his resignation on June 28, The panicked KFA decided that it could no longer delay the selection of the A team’s coach and entrusted the role to Lee Im-sang, who has already presided over the first video conference with the entire committee on June 30. However, some of the “old guard” members were not present, which led to a series of resignations. The ‘Jeong Sung-ho All-Powerful Committee’, which has been sailing since February, 토토사이트 has effectively collapsed.

In an atmosphere of embarrassment, there was no time to delay. Lee continued to move according to the set timetable: He decided to meet with the highly ranked foreign candidates in person. Initially, he met with them virtually. However, he reportedly clashed with the KFA head over the need for face-to-face meetings. This is why Lee traveled to Europe so quickly. With time constraints preventing him from meeting with many candidates, he narrowed it down to Poyet and Wagner.

Poyet was one of 12 candidates, including domestic coaches. At the ninth meeting, where the 12 candidates were evaluated, he reportedly received the highest score among foreign candidates, along with Iraqi coach Jesús Casas. Uruguayan coach Poyet is a former star player who played for Chelsea and Tottenham during his playing days. After retiring from football in 2004, Poyet turned to coaching and took over at Brighton in 2009. After leading the team to the Ligue 1 (third division) title in 2010-2011 and a fourth-place finish in the Championship in 2012-2013, Poyet took over at Sunderland, then playing in the English Premier League, in October 2013. He turned around the relegation zone and led them to a 14th-place finish and a runner-up finish in the League Cup. Poyet made a strong impression on domestic fans, especially by utilizing Ki Sung-yueng on loan.

After resigning from Sunderland in 2015 due to poor results, Poyet has coached AEK Athens in Greece, Real Betis in Spain, Shanghai Shenhua in China, Bordeaux in France and Catolica in Chile. He was most recently in charge of the Greek national team. His experience in the so-called big leagues of England, Spain, and France, as well as his national team experience, makes him an attractive candidate. He also has a connection to Korea through Ki Sung-yong. However, it’s unlikely that the KFA will accept the asking price. There’s also the fact that he’s from Uruguay, a country that has been plagued by racism, including the recent Rodrigo Ventancourt case.

Wagner was not among the original 12 candidates. At the 10th meeting, four more candidates were added, one of which was Wagner. It was reportedly recommended by a member of the minority faction A, who had opposed former Ulsan coach Kim Do-hoon, who was considered a strong candidate among the domestic faction. Although he was a late addition, he made the shortlist. Wagner is said to be strongly supported by some in the KFA hierarchy.

Wagner, who was born in Germany but chose to play for the United States, was an average player in the first and second Bundesliga. After retiring, he followed his “best friend” Jürgen Klopp to become the head coach of Dortmund 2. He showed promise and was appointed as Huddersfield’s first non-Commonwealth manager in 2015. Wagner led the club to an improbable promotion in the 2016-2017 season, followed by a stay in the following year. After leaving Huddersfield in 2019, Wagner went on to manage Germany’s Schalke and Switzerland’s Young Boys, but failed to make a significant impact. He most recently managed Norwich City in the Championship. He also coached Hwang Eui-jo at Norwich City.

Wagner’s low salary is one of his advantages. However, his recent career has been in a downward spiral, and he has no national team coaching experience.

Lee will continue to interview domestic coaching candidates after returning home. Based on the results of Lee’s interviews, the KFA plans to select a final candidate through a comprehensive evaluation with the existing candidate, Australian coach Graham Arnold.

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Hat-trick Son Hwa-yeon, No.7 Son in Hangzhou…to face North Korea in quarterfinals?

With Son Heung-min (Tottenham) playing in the English Premier League (EPL), it was No. 7 Son who stole the show in Hangzhou, China.

The South Korean women’s national team, led by head coach Colleen Bell, cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Philippines in their second Group E match of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games 카지노사이트 on Friday at the Wenzhou Sports Center Stadium in Zhejiang Province, China.

After a convincing win over Myanmar in the first leg, the Koreans have now won two straight matches to clinch first place in the group, regardless of the outcome of their match against Hong Kong (2 losses) on Aug. 28.

The best player of the match was forward Son Hwa-yeon (Hyundai Steel), who wore the No. 7 shirt. Starting up front, she scored a hat trick against the Philippines to lead her team to an upset victory.

South Korea, who were outclassed by the Philippines in terms of objective power, fell behind early as Isabel Bolden was unceremoniously brought down in the eighth minute.

However, Chun Garam (Hwacheon KSPO) quickly equalized in the 12th minute from a corner kick, and Son Hwa-yeon (Suwon FC) turned the game around in the 44th minute with a header off a cross from Chu Hyo-joo (Suwon FC).

A penalty kick goal by ace Ji So-yeon (Suwon FC) in the seventh minute of the second half gave Korea the lead, and Son Hwa-yeon extended the lead in the 10th minute of the second half when she headed home a cross from Choi Yoo-ri (Birmingham City).

Showing off her knack for finding the back of the net, Son Hwa-yeon added another goal 25 minutes into the second half with a right-footed shot off a pass from Jeon Eun-ha to complete her hat trick in the match.

After breezing through the group stage, the national team still has a final game to play, but the focus is now on their quarterfinal opponents.

In the 16-nation women’s competition, the top five teams from each group and the top three finishers from each group except Group C will advance to the quarterfinals.

With quarterfinal opponents still to be determined, South Korea will face either the first-place team from Group C or the second-place team from Group D. As of now, North Korea is the favorite to finish first in Group C and Vietnam is the favorite to finish second in Group D. Depending on the circumstances, the quarterfinals could be a North-South matchup in women’s soccer.

The last time the two Koreas met was at the EAFF E-1 Championship (East Asian Cup) in Japan in December 2017. South Korea lost 0-1 on that occasion. They also failed to secure a win in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualifier in Pyongyang in April that year, drawing 1-1.