Why did Tottenham choose Frank, the opposite of POSTECH, Captain Son Heung-min + Yang Min-hyuk's fate
Jun 10, 2025
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The BBC reported on the 10th (Korea time) 'Tottenham, which has ended the era of Enze Postecoglou, welcomes Frank. Most of the local media are putting weight on Frank's trip to Tottenham.
Coach Frank, who is from Denmark, has no professional career. After playing for an amateur football team for a while, he began his leadership career as a youth team coach in 1995 when he was 22. Afterwards, he was recognized for his ability through the local youth team and played for the Danish national team by age from 2008 to 2013. In 2013, he was the first manager of the senior team at Brønbü, leading the team to the top of the Europa League for three seasons. He moved to the Premier League in 2016 as Brentford's head coach, and was promoted to manager in 2018 to the present day. He ranked 11th in the Championship (second division) in his first year in office, but he ranked third in the next two seasons, and eventually led the team to this day after promoting to the Premier League in the 2021-2022 season. He is the second longest-lived leader in the Premier League after Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) as manager for seven seasons until this year.
Coach Frank is considered a leader who has contributed greatly to elevating Brentford to the middle of the Premier League. Not only the know-how in fostering players gained from long-term youth team guidance, but also the motivation ability to unite the team is evaluated as excellent. Ivan Toney, Brian Mbeumo, and Yoan Wissa are considered representative players who have grown under him. Brentford midfielder Christian Norgar added: "Frank is very interested in individual players. I wonder what kind of people we are and what we think. An important quality that you must have as a coach." Tottenham, which focuses on fostering as well as performance by bringing in young players such as Yang Min-hyuk, seems to have paid attention to coach Frank's ability.
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There are question marks over whether Frank's tactics will work at Tottenham. In the days of Brentford, the focus was on counterattacks based on possession and long passes-oriented strategies to target the back space of the opponent's defense, but Tottenham has to play so-called 'dominant soccer'. Whether Tottenham, which took a considerable amount of time to adapt under tacticians such as Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, will be able to easily accept Frank's soccer is also expected to be the key to success.
Frank once compared the position of head coach to 'chef'. He said "Chef should know how to cook himself. It's a place where you have to pass on your vision and recipes to 20 other chefs working in one restaurant and make the most of their details."
Attention is also focusing on how coach Frank will use Son Heung-min and Yang Min-hyuk. Son Heung-min has devoted 10 seasons at Tottenham to playing the captain's role, while Yang Min-hyuk is a prospect that Tottenham is ambitious in fostering. Frank, who values ties and has a strong sense of development, is not expected to be a bad match. Attention is focusing on what kind of judgment Frank, who had a relationship with Kim Ji-soo during his time at Brentford, will make.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
