Korea Soccer Affiliation Considers Gus Poyet and David Wagner as Head Coach Candidates

Lee Im-saeng, technical director of the Korea Soccer Affiliation. Offered by Korea Soccer Affiliation

Coach Gus Poyet and David Wagner have emerged as candidates for the brand new head coach of Korean soccer.

In line with the Korea Soccer Affiliation, Technical Director Lee Im-saeng left for Europe on the 2nd. Technical Director Lee Im-saeng took over the duty of choosing the nationwide group coach following the sudden resignation of Nationwide Crew Energy Growth Committee Chairman Jeong Hae-seong.

The candidates that director Lee Im-saeng will meet with are administrators Gus Poyet and David Wagner. Director Lee Im-saeng plans to interview administrators Poyet and Wagner on location. Coach Poyet was amongst 12 candidates (together with home coaches), however it’s recognized that Coach Wagner appeared lately on the tenth assembly of the Energy Growth Committee.

Coach Poyet is from Uruguay and has coached Brighton & Hove Albion, Sunderland (England), AEK Athens (Greece), and Shanghai Shenhua (China). Notably, he additionally had expertise working with Ki Sung-yong at Sunderland within the English Premier League through the 2013-2014 season.

He additionally has the expertise of main the Greek nationwide group beginning in 2022. Nonetheless, after failing to qualify for the Euro 2024 finals, he put down his baton when his contract expired.

The conductor Wagner is from Germany, however he has American nationality. He started his teaching profession at Huddersfield City within the English Championship (Second Division) and led them to promotion, and was head coach at Schalke (Germany), Younger Boys (Switzerland), and Nority Metropolis (England) Part 2). Nonetheless, he has no expertise as a nationwide group coach.

Discovering a brand new Korean soccer coach continues to be unclear.

With prime home coaches reminiscent of Ulsan coach HD Hong Myung-bo and coach Kim Do-hoon expressing their clear rejection, the main target is on overseas coaches. Together with coaches Poyet and Wagner, for whom director Lee Im-saeng is conducting native interviews, coach Graham Arnold, who’s at present in command of the Australian nationwide group, is also referred to as a powerful candidate.