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Aug 13, 2025

Jeonbuk Hyundai coach Gus Foye is now dreaming of winning the league while enjoying his career in Korea.

Coach Foyet appeared on Give Me Sports in England on the 12th (Korea time) and talked about his career at Chelsea, his perspective on Chelsea now, and his challenges in Jeonbuk and Korea.

Foyet is the first coach from the Premier League (EPL) in K-League history. At first, there were many doubts. This is because his career has continued to decline since he led European big league clubs Thunderland and Real Betis. He was not successful at the Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua, nor was he impressive at the Greek national team.

Coach Foye, who briefly became the final candidate for the head coach of the South Korean national team, held the hand of Jeonbuk, which had the worst season in the club's history last season. Expectations and concerns coexisted with the EPL-turned-manager, but Foyet made Jeonbuk the strongest team in the league again in half a season.

Jeonbuk, which faced relegation last season in 10th place, is approaching the championship with a dominant No. 1 ranking this season. There is still a lot of league left, but it is said that Jeonbuk has already tilted to the championship. As of the 25th round, Jeonbuk has widened its gap with the second place by 15 points. As the team is becoming more solid toward the middle of the season, Jeonbuk's decision to choose Foyet is proving to have been correct. Recently, Jeonbuk has been running without losing in 21 games.

Coach Foye seems to have liked the challenge in Korea. Asked about his experience in Korea and Jeonbuk, he said "Everything is really different." Other things came positively to Foye.

He "There are a lot of really good things. For example, policing is. That's amazing. The security here is incredible. There is nothing at all to be called a problem. "Not at all. For people like me who have been in Europe for a while or come from South America, security is the most important thing."

Coach Foye, a former European big club star and with a lot of experience in big league coaching, would not have been easy to understand the K-League and Korean culture at first. He said "The longer I stayed here, the better I understand this league now. It wasn't easy at first," he said candidly.

Then "It took me a while to understand everything from their mindset, speed of play, tactics, physical fights, refereeing, etc. But when I found the team, I felt it was just right. Often, he confidently said that he had built his team properly in Jeonbuk, saying, `Doesn't the coach say that he completed the team's best 11?'

Coach Foyet said "I'm a little old-fashioned, so I was like that when I was a player and now I'm the same as a coach. When the team is doing well, I'm not the style of 'Let's take three or four players out and give them a break because we have Wednesday and Saturday games. It doesn't do that. So I keep playing with almost the same team. Of course, there were suspensions and small problems. Other than that, it was amazingly goodHe also talked about his style of selecting players. In fact, Jeonbuk has not been able to prevent other clubs even though it is moving forward without much change in the best-leven.

Finally, Foyet said "The only big change is that at the beginning of the season, the goal was not 'League championship', but now it is clear that 'League championship' is the goal. This is a huge change in every way. So far, it has gone very well. I hope it continues like this."I will try to win the championship with Jeonbuk."

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.