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| The 4th Group B match between South Korea and Iraq was held at Yongin Mir Stadium in the third Asian qualifying round for the 2026 FIFA North-China World Cup. Bae Jun-ho is trying to break through. Yongin = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.10.15/ |
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'Overseas Football Father'Ji Sung, a 43-year-old advisor to Jeonbuk Hyundai, has been with eight leaders throughout his 14-year professional career. As for the official head coach, he was coached by six players, including Gerd Engels (Kyoto Shopping Center), Gus Hiddink, Philip Coku (PSV Eindhoven), Alex Ferguson (Manchester United), Mark Hughes, and Harry Redknapp (Queens Park Rangers). Son Heung-min (32, Tottenham) has experienced more frequent bench changes. For 14 years, he played for three teams: Hamburg, Leverkusen and Tottenham, where he worked with 11 full-time coaches. Tottenham, who joined in 2015, is the seventh player (five full-time), including the acting coach. After serving as Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Nunu Espiritu Santo and Antonio Conte, he formed a relationship with coach Enzi Postecoglou last year.
For many Korean European players, from Park Ji-sung to Son Heung-min, such frequent managerial changes were not a variable but a constant. Because soccer is considered a huge industry, a coach's lifeblood depends on his performance. This phenomenon has been repeated again recently. Bae Joon-ho (Stoke City), who was discovered by Korean soccer this year, predicted a brilliant future by being selected as the team's player of the year in the 2023-2024 season, the first year of entering the European stage, but he has already been exposed to the unstable reality of three official coaches being replaced in a year and four months after his debut. On the 27th, coach Narcissus Pelacci was dismissed three months after his appointment. In the English Championship (division 2), the team's ranking has fallen to 19th place, the fringes of the relegation zone, with no wins in the last nine games in a row. The continued managerial change and poor team also affected Bae Joon-ho's performance. Bae Joon-ho failed to score an offensive point in eight consecutive games until the 26th against Leeds (0-2 loss) after recording his fifth assist of the season in the match against Millwall (1-1 draw) in November. Stoke City plans to appoint an official coach after playing against Sunderland on the 29th as acting coach Ryan Shockross. For Bae Joon-ho, he took on the task of adapting again to the new coach system in 2025.
Offensive midfielder Ko Young-joon (Partizan), a gold medalist at the Hangzhou Asian Games, has left three coaches, Albert Nad, Aleksandr Stanoyevich and Sabo Milosevic, in just eight months since Igor Dulyai, who has had strong trust since moving from Pohang Steelers to Partizan last year, was replaced in April. After Milosevic was replaced on the 2nd, he is currently playing the season under acting coach Marco Jovanovic. The fact that he fell behind in the competition with Sul Young-woo's team, Tsurvena Zvezda, for the second consecutive year seems to lead to frequent managerial changes. The problem is that even major club managers involved in recruiting Ko Young-joon have been completely replaced. In line with this, Ko has never been included in the league entry since October. Ko Young-joon is said to be planning to search for a new nest through the player transfer market in January. Winger Jung Woo-young (Woonion Berlin) left for Union from Stuttgart last summer at the call of Bosbenson. However, coach Svensson was dismissed on the 27th after a slump of only 12th place in the first half. Jung Woo-young was expanding his presence by scoring his second goal of the season against Leverkusen (1-2 loss) and writing his first assist against Stuttgart (2-3 loss) ahead of the last Werder Bremen match, which was absent from the injury. Like Bae Joon-ho, he faced a new and unfamiliar environment. Only when we overcome the current ordeal can we be called by Hong Myung-bo in 2025.
'Bull'Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton) joined the team in 2021 and met his fourth coach in three years. On the 19th, manager Vitor Pereira took the helm to replace Gary O'Neill, who was dismissed due to poor performance. Hwang Hee-chan, who did not have enough opportunities under O'Neill this season, made a difference in the second half of the match against Manchester United (2-0 win) on the 27th and sealed the victory with a man-made goal in the season, impressing Pereira. The careers of Park Ji-sung, Ki Sung-yueng (Seoul), Son Heung-min, and Hwang Hee-chan ' senior European team' leaves a great lesson for juniors who have just stepped foot on the European stage. The most important factor in overcoming the managerial change variable is first ability and second ability. If the performance is good, the position will not be shaken no matter who takes the baton. This could be the story for Yang Min-hyuk, who will officially join Tottenham on January 1st next year. The reality of Postecoglou's departure, which is constantly rumored to be replaced, may be considered another crisis for Son Heung-min, but it is by no means ideal for Yang Min-hyuk.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
