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Why K League referees are usually environmental officers, but only referee on match days
While Jürgen Klinsmann (GER), the former head coach of the South Korean national soccer team, has been known to take time off from his day job to work in broadcasting, most referees have other jobs to make ends meet. For them, refereeing is a second job. Jung Dong-sik, 44, who made headlines for his resemblance…
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Why Klinsmann should be criticized ③: No thought and no action for the future of Korean soccer
Not just for this tournament, but for the long term, Jürgen Klinsmann is a risky bet. Klinsmann lasted about a year before the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup in Qatar. The results were not good and he was heavily criticized. In my last two articles (Why Klinsmann deserves criticism: 1) The tactics are…