They just promoted the asst to head coach now that Advoccat is leaving


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Verbeek Named New Soccer Coach
Monday, June 26, 2006 15:25:29

The Korea Football Association has promoted assistant soccer coach Pim Verbeek to head coach of the national team.

The association on Monday announced that it hired the 50-year-old Dutchman, who had served the team in the 2002 and this year's World Cups.

Verbeek has previously coached Netherlands Antilles and was an assistant to outgoing South Korea coach Richard Advocaat at the United Arab Emirates and the German pro team Borussia Mönchengladbach.

His first task is to prepare South Korea for next year's Asia Cup. South Korea plays its second qualifier against Taiwan on August 16th.

Advocaat will hold a news conference Tuesday morning before leaving the country in the afternoon. Reports say he will take over the Russian pro team Zenit St. Petersburg.
Reported by KBS WORLD Radio
Contact the KBS News: englishweb@kbs.co.kr



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wow that's a quick move. i wonder when he packed his bags.

I believe the contract with the Russian club was signed right before this world cup kicked off.

how come coaches dont stay for two world cups?

they can, they just choose not to. Eriksson (england) is coaching his second right now.

Not alot of English fans liked Eriksson... until they got into the final 16 and now they're in the quarterfinals.

I expected he would go
Sad case. Will the players bear to part with him?
But I guess they are used to these kinds of partings eh?

Advocaat is a pretty good coach. It's just that alot of Korean fans are relentless to the coaches if they don't do well. lol

Unlike Hiddink, Advocaat didn't have as much time to "bond" with the team. So I don't really blame him. Well I do a little. But it's not really his fault. It was the referee's.

I say bring back Hiddink. Lure him from Russia with a big fat contract!

Verbeek....is Dutch too xDDD

hmm
well at least he knows the players pretty well
since he's been with them since 2002 or..maybe before
this is korea's 5th dutch coach.

Oh goodbye Advocaat It would have been nice to get to you know a little better. Welcome Verbeek! I hope you'll do wonders with our boys.

Korea hwaiting! Verbeek hwaiting!

and good luck to Advocaat with whatever he will be doing next

ill be korea's 6th coach when i finished studie

verbeek, here in holland we do know him...but not as a head coach...
only assistent.
so no1 can judge him
but i wish him luck...

and do not think guus is comming back, guus is a world travaller.
his job after rusia will be china?
i hope so

thats a picture of him.

Mm...I don't blame Hiddink for leaving after '02.
And not surprised Advocaat's leaving.
(But I want Hiddink back XD)
Let's just hope Verbeek can help inspire the team. (:

advocaat got pretty close with the players though in such a short time. there gunna miss him. and so is he.

i like this new assistant coach, he has alot of good quality experience. Good choice i say, lets see what he can do for us

Advocaat is now coaching at FC Zenit St. Petersburg in the Russian Premier League. Even before the WC started, it was rumored that he was going to be headed there to coach.


Pim should do a fine job. he has head coach experience in the netherlands and japan. he knows the players and what they can and can't do...and he knows how the KFA works, so he knows what will be allowed and not allowed.

at fist i didn't think advocaat was a good enough coach... but i've seen clips on naver where the team and the staff were practicing... they were having so much fun with each other and advocaat would joke around with them and stuff

haha some of the netizens in korea are like "advocaat is so cute" (but not as in physical appearance) because he knows when to loosen up a bit and be silly with the korean team.

another dutch coach...

i'm excited about this guy! i think he'll be good!

looks like val kilmer aged 30 years...

whoa;; another dutch coach!! verbeek!! i wish the best to him in guiding our team!!!

advocaat was with us for like 9 months..;; sometimes i didn't agree with his descisions but he was a good coach!!! i still like him! i like how close he was to the team;;^^

ok.. we're playing taiwan? taiwan has been talking sh!t about the korean team and koreans in general...... wtf has korea done to them?

-edit- oh he was assistant coach!! no wonder he looked so familiar!!

lol ... I saw on Korean TV that he used to be a hair transplant model or some hair model for balding people. xD

I think sometimes he got to close with the team but nonetheless the closeness helped most of the time.

Verbeek hwating!

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i have a stupid question... so i know the asian cup is soon.. but who is on the korean team? are all the same people from the world cup on it? but don't they start training for their own teams? like isn't park ji sung going back to england?

^ I think the new coach (veerbeck) will choose the team. This is a pretty big tournament so I think PJS will stay for this one.

Korea takes on Chinese Taipei on the 16th of August.

As for Jisung being there for this game...not sure, Man U opens up play on the 19th of August, so not sure if he will stay with his club or go Taipei for the game.

I have no doubt that Korea would win this with ease, but if they don't, it'll be a huge disappointment.

well ... Korea hasnt won the Asian Cup since 1960 so you really can't have your hopes up so high.

Korea's actually won it only two times while Iran/Saudia Arabia/Japan have all won it three times.

I guess Korea is good during crunch time - qualifying for the World Cup.

Good luck to Korea but I really don't think Korea's all that good at the moment.
Hopefully this new coach will help shape up the team.

^ I meant the match against Taiwan.

hiddink couldnt repeat his magic..

italians beat australia

but at least the aussie team advanced for the first time in like 30 something years or whatever. that's hiddink enough for me. it doesnt matter that he didnt get to repeat his magic to me hahas xP.

anyways LOOL. joonage, are you talking about advocaat or the new coach?

i don't think PJS is gonna stay for the Asian Cup

many peopel in Korea barely care about it

Awww...
But if the Korean's dont win the Asian cup, I'm afraid people might start bashing again >___>
Doubting their ability for WC and ya-dah ya-dah -____-

i had the feeling verbeeks only a temporary coach but maybe he'll stay
who did advocaat take to russia with him?
someone toldme he took lee ho and some other player but i didnt remember who and if this is even true

^
i think it was also jo jae jin;; im not sure;;..

lee ho and & kim dong jin are going to russia!

aww I liked advocaat he seemed sincere...oh well!!

I hope this new coach will do well!!! So he's been with Korea since 2002? Well he must've created a bond with them...

GOOD LUCK TO HIM!!! I HOPE HE DOES WELL!

aww Park Ji Sung might not be in Korea for the Asian cup? omgosh.........but he's like one of the best players!!!!!! I hope he can stay and still be on manchaster United...He's my countries pride

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yea;; on lee kyung kyu's world cup show;;.. they were showing highlights from 2002 and i saw verbeek!! i was like whoa~~~

^ REALLY?

On the world cup site it said he was offered many coaching jobs but had grestest interest in the Korean head coach job, and he was with them in the 2002 world cup.

aww advoocat leaving.im going to miss him he gotten close to the team and now he just going to leave.well i bid him good luck and lee ho too.

Well, since the World Cup is over...seems that most of the KNT fans have left the sports forum (guess we'll be seeing them in another 4 years)....

anyways, Korea defeated Taiwan 3-0 in their 2nd Asian Cup qualifying match. The win places Korea atop their group with 6 points. On Sept. 2nd, they will play Iran in their toughest match of the qualifiers. Ahn-jung-hwan (who is playing in his last Asian cup), scored first...followed by Jung Jo-gook and Kim Do-hyeon.

Korea Times story

Another story

Clubbox DL of game



ASIAN CUP Site

well i highly doubt that korea wont make it out of qualifiers so ill rest easy
is syria any good? they tied iran.

I know in the qualifying round teams were ranked by their '04 AC performance, but how are the final 16 teams seeded? I'm assuming the 4 host nations are put into different groups...are the other 12 teams seeded based on past AC results too?

edit: found it on another site, thanks anyway

from the Asian Cup site:

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FINAL ROUNDS
Sixteen teams will qualify for the final rounds – the six winners and runners-up of the qualifying round groups, and the host associations Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The tournament from July 7 to 29, 2007 will be split into two stages with a round-robin group stage and a knockout stage.

GROUP STAGE
The 16 finalists will be seeded and divided into four groups of four teams each during the final round draw. Each team plays each of the other teams in the same group according to a league system (three points for a win, one point for a draw, no points for a defeat). The winners and runners-up in each group will advance to the quarter-finals.

Korea takes on Iran this Saturday in an Asian Cup qualifying match.

korea taking on Iran in a few hours.

game ends in 1-1 tie as iran scores in the last minute

i liked the coaches.

especially hiddink. ;]

korea needs only one more point to qualify for the Asian Cup after thrasing Taiwan 8-0.

Korea will play Syria and Iran in October and November.