At one point, we had nine meetings. We can’t postpone the selection of a director any longer. The candidates have been narrowed down to a handful.

The Korean Football Association has finished evaluating 12 candidates for the new national team coach. It is expected to narrow the list down to five finalists.

The KFA’s National Strength and Reinforcement Committee held its ninth meeting behind closed doors at 2 p.m. on Aug. 18 at its headquarters in Seoul to select a new coach. According to the KFA, the meeting lasted for five hours to evaluate the 12 candidates who were shortlisted at a meeting held on the previous three days.

A total of 10 members of the committee watched each candidate’s game footage to understand the main tactics of the offensive and defensive organization and style of play. Each member then gave an evaluation opinion and recommended a candidate for negotiation.

The Power Enhancement Committee plans to select the final negotiating candidates at the 10th meeting in the near future.

“After the next meeting, we will have to enter the negotiation phase, so I think there will be no more than five finalists,” said an official from the Football Association.

Among the 12 candidates is a domestic coach. Chung has not ruled out the possibility of becoming a domestic coach. Former national interim coach Kim Do-hoon, who led South Korea to two consecutive wins in the fifth and sixth rounds of the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 North American Football Confederation (AFCON), including a trip to Singapore on June 6 and a home match against China on June 11, is also on the shortlist. There has been no change in the NFPA’s policy to evaluate both foreign and Korean coaches fairly and without prioritization.

However, there are more foreign coaches than domestic coaches, so the arithmetic odds are still in favor of a foreign coach.

Once a shortlist has been selected, the Football Association will keep the entire process behind closed doors until negotiations are completed. In order to facilitate negotiations and contracts, the proceedings after the 10th meeting will not be made 안전놀이터 public, and no information regarding the selection of the finalists or the progress of the contract will be disclosed.

Nine of the 11 members of the Power Enhancement Committee, including Chairman Jeong Hae-sung, attended the meeting in person, while Yoon Jeong-hwan, head coach of Gangwon FC, participated via video. Park Sung-bae (head coach of Soongsil University) was absent.

The committee was newly formed and began the process of selecting a new head coach for the national team in February after former coach Jürgen Klinsmann was sacked and Chung was appointed by the head of the Korea Football Association (KFA), Mong-kyu Chung, following the team’s 0-2 loss to Middle Eastern powerhouse Jordan in the semifinals of the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup in Qatar.

However, the committee has bungled the process twice in the past three months, drawing harsh criticism from both inside and outside the soccer world. First, despite the controversy, the committee appointed Hwang Sun-hong, then the head coach of the Olympic team, as the interim head coach for the two home and away matches against Thailand in the third and fourth rounds of the North American World Cup Asia Second Qualifying Round in March. The two games ended in a 1-1 draw, but Hwang’s “full-time” Olympic job came a month later, when the national team suffered a shock quarterfinal loss to Indonesia at the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup, failing to qualify for the first men’s soccer Olympic Games in 40 years.

The national team failed to qualify for the Olympics 파워볼사이트 after the KPA forced Hwang, who was supposed to be focusing on his “real job,” to take over as interim coach.

Earlier this month, the KFA was supposed to appoint a new head coach before the two-game World Cup second qualifying round in June, but after losing American coach Jesse Marsh to Canada and Spanish coach Jesús Casas announced his intention to stay with the Iraqi national team, where he is currently working, the KFA was forced to appoint interim coach Kim Do-hoon for the two-game series.

There was no more time to delay the appointment of a new coach.

The first leg of the third qualifying round, with six tickets to the World Cup at stake, will be played at home on September 5. That’s almost three months away, but in reality, not much time. The group draw on September 27 will determine the five countries South Korea will face. From there, teams will start analyzing their opponents.

It takes time for a new coach to learn the skills of the national team players and analyze their opponents. If the new coach is a foreigner, this time can be even longer. In addition, the first match of the third qualifying round will be the debut of the new coach, which can be a daunting situation.

바카라사이트