Special correspondent Lin Shuang reportsOn December 15, the K League powerhouse Pohang Steelers officially announced that the 55-year-old Park Tae-ha took over the team and became the club's 13th coach.
Park Tae-ha is a famous Pohang Steelers company, graduated from Daegu University, joined Pohang Steelers in 1991 as a winger, and spent his playing years at Pohang Steelers except for his military service in 1993 and 95.
In the nine years of Pohang Steelers, Park Tae-ha made 261 appearances, scored 46 goals, and provided 37 assists, won a league title (1992), an FA Cup (1996), and two AFC Champions League titles (1996-97 and 1997-98), of which he captained in 1998-00 and was named in the league team in 1992.
In the national team, Park Tae-ha was not a success, only 11 appearances, scored 7 goals, did not play in a major tournament, and only played in the Asian Cup qualifiers.
In 2001, Park retired from the army and continued to work at Pohang Steelers, first as a scout, and since 2005 as an assistant coach of Farias (former R&F coach), where he won the 2007 league title.
In 2008, Park Tae-ha joined the coaching staff of the South Korean team, successively assisted Xu Dingmao and Zhao Guanglai, and participated in the 2010 World Cup with Xu Dingmao.
In 2012, Park Tae-ha joined the FC Seoul coaching staff as an assistant coach to Choi Yong-so, and won the league championship with the team in the same year, but left at the end of the season.
At the end of 2014, Park Tae-ha came to China as the coach of Yanbian, with an annual salary of only 1 million yuan, and the following year, he led the team to surpass, and the annual salary was still 1 million, but it became US dollars.
In 2016, Park Tae-ha introduced Kim Seung-dae and Yoon Bigaran, and Steve also played a value, once again setting off a whirlwind in Yanbian. In 2017, the team did not perform well and were relegated from the bottom of the table, but the club still trusted him;In 2018, Park Taixia completely lost his "magic", even in the middle league can not play, the last moment of the game against Zhejiang, the team encountered a controversial lore, Park Taixia angrily boycotted the game, 6 days later, Park Taixia quit class.
No one expected that in December of that year, Park Tae-ha accepted the invitation of the Chinese Football Association to serve as the coach of the Chinese women's football team, and in 2017, the Football Association approached him as an assistant coach of the Chinese women's football team, but was rejected.
It is worth mentioning that Park Tae-ha is the first Korean to serve as the coach of a national football team in Chinese football.
At that time, the Chinese women's football yellow team was a reserve team, dominated by the youth army, and in February 2019, the Football Association simply let Park Taixia concurrently serve as the coach of the U19 women's national youth team, but what he didn't expect was that Park Taixia planted a big heel. During this period, he forcibly copied the so-called "masculine" set, strengthened physical fitness and running, and attached importance to physical confrontation;Governing the army with an iron fist, because of some trivial things, Shen Mengyu was expelled;Adopt the three-center-back style of play, and use long passes to rush and hang ......But none of these are suitable for the Chinese women's football team.
In the Asian Youth Championship, the women's national youth team lost 1-2 and failed to qualify from the group, exposing many problems, except for a very few players such as Zhang Linyan, Han Xuan and Yang Qian, the team's performance was desperate. "8 training camps, I don't know what I practiced. At that time, a person in the team couldn't help but complain.
Director Park must have done his best, but he may not be suitable for us. The national youth player admitted that Park Tae-ha's tactical concept was too profound, and they had not practiced it, so they couldn't play the effect he wanted.
After the Asian Youth Championship, Park Tae-ha got out of class and returned to South Korea. In 2020, Park Tae-ha joined the Korean Football Association as the chairman of the technical committee to study the development trend of football tactics. In December, he waited for another opportunity to take over as the head coach of Pohang Steelers Steelers, his first time in charge of a K-League team as a manager.
This season, under the leadership of Kim Ki-dong, Pohang Steelers won the FA Cup, the league runner-up, and the first place in the AFC Champions League group. However, Pohang Steelers' small budget made it difficult to meet his demands, and in the end, he chose to coach the giants Seoul FC.
Pohang Steelers finalized Park Tae-ha, and the two sides signed a two-year contract, and he became the fourth famous man to serve as the team's coach as a "pure Pohang blood" after Hwang Sunhong, Choi Soon-ho, and Kim Ki-dong.
Pohang is a very special place for me and it has been in my heart since I joined. Park Tae-ha is very excited about returning to Pohang, "I will do my best to show Pohang football to the world." ”