The Asian Cup final has been over for a week, and South Korea, as one of the favorites to win the championship, unfortunately stopped in the semi-finals after the turmoil: first Son Heung-min and Lee Gang-in's infighting, and now coach Jurgen Klinsmann's dismissal. It is worth mentioning that so far, the head coaches of the three opponents of Thailand, Singapore and South Korea, who are in the same group as the national football team in the world preliminaries, have all left their classes one after another, and the national football team, as the team that is out of the group stage of the Asian Cup, has not yet stepped down.
After the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the former coach of the South Korean national team, Paulo Bento, resigned, and Jurgen Klinsmann took over at the end of February last year. South Korea has high hopes for the German coach, and the contract between the two sides is signed until the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and it is reported that the liquidated damages are as high as 8 billion won, or about 5.57 million euros. However, in less than a year, an Asian Cup revealed Klinsmann's strength. In the previous Asian Cup semi-finals, South Korea lost 0-2 to Jordan, and even though there was infighting soon after, this could not hide the fact that the Germans were incompetent in coaching.
Klinsmann led South Korea to 17 games with nine wins, five draws and three defeats, during which time he had no new attacking routines other than ineffective passing and high-altitude bombing. Fortunately, the Korean team's strength on paper is online, and among the players in Europe, there are also the four big King Kongs who play in the five major leagues - Son Heung-min, Hwang Hee-chan, Lee Gang-in and Kim Min-jae. In fact, the South Korean team almost relied on the individual ability of the team's star players to solve the problem, and Klinsmann did not play much of a role. On the other hand, Klinsmann's failure to coach South Korea is not only a matter of ability, but also a problem of attitude. The German did not do his duty during his time in charge of South Korea, spending most of his time in the United States remotely, so much so that he was still not familiar with his players after nearly a year in charge. It is well known that South Korea's senior and senior culture is engraved in the bone marrow, and Son Heung-min and Lee Gang-in still have a physical altercation that detonates public opinion, which also shows that Klinsmann is negligent in managing the team's locker room.
It is true that Klinsmann was a "golden bomber" and his playing days were full of accolades: he won one Bundesliga, two UEFA Cups, one Italian Super Cup, one World Cup and one European Cup, and he won one Bundesliga Golden Boot, two German Footballer of the Year, one English Footballer of the Year and one Premier League Foreign Player of the Year. After officially retiring from the game in the summer of 2004, Klinsmann seamlessly began his coaching career as head coach of the German national team, and although he led the team to a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup on home soil, the credit for then assistant coach Loew cannot be overlooked. After all, Loew's rise to power to help the Germans climb to the top and win the World Cup is enough to tell.
In the 2008-09 season, Klinsmann coached Bayern halfway through and led the team to 25 wins, 9 draws and 9 losses in 48 games, with a winning rate of only 58.1%, which is the lowest winning rate among Bayern coaches who have been in charge for more than a month in the past 29 years. From 2011 to 2016, Klinsmann was head coach of the U.S. national team, during which time he won the 2013 Americas Gold Cup, the only trophy of his coaching career to date. In the 2019-2020 season, Klinsmann took over the Bundesliga team Hertha Berlin in just over two months, and waited for the olive branch thrown by the South Korean national team after three years of leisure.
For Klinsmann, he didn't put much effort into coaching the South Korean national team, and even after a dismal dismissal, he received a handsome release payment, but South Korean football wasted a precious year when the team was full of stars. Klinsmann's coaching journey has once again proved that the quality of famous coaches is mixed, and the Germans should perhaps be more upright while reflecting on how to improve their coaching ability.
(The original address of this article: public account Xiwa Sports)