{"id":427731,"date":"2023-02-27T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427731"},"modified":"2023-02-27T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T13:42:08","slug":"south-korea-appoint-ex-united-states-boss-klinsmann-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/south-korea-appoint-ex-united-states-boss-klinsmann-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea appoint \u0435x-United States boss Klinsmann as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Former Germany and United States manager Jurgen Klinsmann has been appointed head coach of South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Germany player and coach<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> winner<\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Klinsmann has been appointed as the new \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7 Korea Republic head coach! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HnuI0bHrRb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HnuI0bHrRb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #AsianCup2023 (@afcasiancup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afcasiancup\/status\/1630145990782070785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">The 58-year-old, who won the World Cup as a player with Germany in 1990, has signed a three-and-a-half-year contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0.0\">The deal means that Klinsmann will have the chance to lead South Korea to the 2026 World Cup finals which will be held in Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">The German great&#8217;s first game in charge will be a friendly against Colombia in Ulsan on 24 March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">Klinsmann, who scored 47 goals in 108 internationals, succeeds Paulo Bento, who ended his four-year spell as head coach after stepping down <\/span><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.3\">after leading South Korea to the last 16 of last year&#8217;s World Cup in Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">&#8220;I am very happy and honored to be following in the footsteps of great coaches who have directed the Korean national team, from Guus Hiddink to former coach Paulo Bento,&#8221; Klinsmann said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">&#8220;I know that the Korean national team has been improving and achieving results over a long period of time. <\/span><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">I will do my best to achieve successful results in the upcoming Asian Cup and 2026 World Cup.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">Ex-Tottenham Hotspur forward Klinsmann&#8217;s most recent managerial role was at German <\/span><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.3\">Bundesliga side Hertha BSC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".1bbwbkq0brk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">Under Klinsmann, host nation Germany finished third at the 2006 World Cup and<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Germany and United States manager Jurgen Klinsmann has been appointed head coach of South Korea. \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Germany player and coach\ud83c\udfc6 #FIFAWorldCup winner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17800,16966],"news_category":[139],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The German signed three-and-a-half-year contract","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427731"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427731"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}