Although the South Korean team stumbled into the top 4 of the Asian Cup, such a result could not hide the South Korean team's hip-pulling performance throughout the competition. Klinsmann was saddened to make it to the day when he led South Korea to the 2026 World Cup. The Korean Football Association quickly cut through the mess, on the one hand, breaking the rumor that "Koreans don't pay attention to the Asian Cup", on the other hand, the hand-holding between Korean football and Klinsmann just looked beautiful, and Klinsmann finally paid the price for his pride and prejudice.
Who says South Korea and Japan don't take the Asian Cup seriously?
I don't know when it started, but rumors have been circulating on the Internet that "South Korea and Japan don't pay attention to the Asian Cup". But in order to be able to win the Asian Cup, Son Heung-min, Huang Hee-chan and other players have been recalled from overseas, this Asian Cup, coach Klinsmann finally failed to win the Asian Cup because he couldn't win the championship, Klinsmann quit class, which also completely broke the fallacy of some commentators and fans that "Japan and South Korea do not attach importance to the Asian Cup".
Klinsmann paid the price for his pride and prejudice.
Klinsmann was arrogant, he didn't scout the internationals very carefully and didn't spend enough time grinding in the team's squad. Most of the time, he spends his holidays in Germany. The boss doesn't seem to be used to the working environment in South Korea, and it is said that Klinsmann has not even paid close attention to the K-League, and he has a lot of trust in the returnees. But Klinsmann also didn't give the returnees enough time to get together, and for most of the time, the South Korean team didn't even schedule a warm-up match. This also laid the groundwork for the South Korean team to struggle in the Asian Cup.
The ability to score goals in sports battles was stretched, and the opponent was eliminated miserably, and Klinsmann was really not wronged when he got out of class
The most important thing to test a team's technical and tactical level is the team's ability to break through the opponent's bucket formation in the team's athletic battle. Obviously, the South Korean team did a very bad job in this area. And Klinsmann was suspected of choosing an opponent in the Asian Cup, but was unexpectedly eliminated by the Jordan team, which made him fired by the South Korean team, and he felt a little more self-inflicted.
Why did South Korea choose to hold hands with Klinsmann?
Since Klinsmann's team did not do well, why did the Koreans choose to lead the team by Klinsmann in the first place? The main reason is because Klinsmann led the team to play a "blitzkrieg" effect during his coaching of the German national team and the United States team, and Korean football also hopes to play a fast advance, under the high-intensity run, to crush the opponent with a quick assault, which has always been the goal of Korean football. Klinsmann's coaching performances in Germany and the United States have given the South Koreans hope for that. Obviously, the end result was not ideal.