Korea
Republic on Monday named former skipper Hong Myungbo the new coach of the
national side, tasked with preparing the out-of-form team for the
2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™.The Korea Football Association said Hong,
44, had been given a two-year contract to replace Choi Kanghee who quit
as coach last week after South Korea scraped through to qualify for its
eighth straight FIFA World Cup.As a player, Hong represented the national team
at four consecutive FIFA World Cups from 1990 and became a national hero as
captain of the side that reached the semi-finals of the 2002 competition in
South Korea.
He
faces a tough challenge in injecting fresh confidence and motivation into the
current national team that only managed to qualify for Brazil on goal
difference.In its last four qualifying games, it was beaten twice by Iran, drew
with Lebanon and was lucky to scrape through with wins over Qatar and
Uzbekistan.Hong began his coaching career as an assistant on the senior
national team from 2005 to 2007.He coached South Korea to bronze at the 2010
Guangzhou Asian Games and led an under-23 team to a bronze medal at the London
Olympics last year. It was the country's first Olympic football medal.
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