[Seoul World Cup Stadium.Photo Credit: Dongyoon Kim]

Jürgen Klinsmann was sworn in as the head coach of the Korean national soccer team, with the goal of winning the next Asian Cup in January 2024.

Coach Klinsmann held his first inauguration as the head coach of the Korean national soccer team at the national training center in Paju.  

As Klinsmann became the director of Korea’s national soccer team, there has been a growing curiosity and interest of the Korean people towards him. 

Moreover, this led  to the  questioning of Klinsmann's prior achievements as a director before he became the director of Korea's national soccer team.

Overall, it was revealed that Klinsmann had an  overwhelming career as a director before he became the director for the Korea’s national soccer team. 

Klinsman directed the German national soccer team for two years since 2004 and as a result of his directions, the German national soccer team showed an overwhelming performance during the period.

During Klinsman’s position as a director of Germany's national soccer team, Germany was able to reach 3rd place at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.      

While it was inevitably true that the German national soccer team itself also had great capability, Klinsmann also had great skills as a director in leading the team to make such a high-level achievement. 

Also, Klinsmann was selected as the head coach for the U.S. national soccer team in July 2011.  

As the head coach of the U.S. national soccer team, he led the team to win the 2013 Gold Cup and successfully advanced them to the round of 16 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.  

Furthermore, based on these impressive achievements he made during his career as a director, Klinsmann showed great confidence towards making Korea’s national soccer team successful. 

During his inauguration, Klinsman stated that his goal as the director of Korea’s national soccer team was to make Korea’s national soccer team win the Asian cup and advance to the semi-finals at the world cup. 

Director Klinsmann said in his interview that he will set Korea’s national teams' goals high and that these goals are achievable. 

Coach Klinsmann will make his official debut as the director for Korea’s national soccer team at the friendly match against Colombia on March 24th and with this as the start, he will lead the Korean national soccer team for the next three years and five months.  

Not only did Klinsmann show confidence based on his own ability as a director, he also showed great confidence in the members of Korea’s national soccer team. 

At the 2023 KFA Leaders Conference on Mar.15th, Klinsman stated that "Heung-Min Son in Tottenham (England), Min-Jae Kim in Naples (Italy), Kang-In Lee in Mallorca (Spain) and other K-League players, everyone, wherever they are, must understand and motivate us. We will define our goal and we will overcome it together with the players."   

This showed that Klinsman had great confidence  in  the members of Korea’s national soccer team’s ability to show great teamwork leading to the goals that he has set. 

There is much anticipation from Korean citizens for Coach Kinsman who has great experience as a director and numerous Korean citizens hope he will lead the Korea’s national soccer team to achieve high levels of achievements.