Jurgen Klinsmann, the man who won World Cup as a player and led Germany to the semi-finals as a coach, has been appointed head coach of South Korea, the country’s football body said Monday.
According to part of the statement by the Korea Football Association, “The contract term with Klinsmann is from March to 2026,”. In addition, he will arrive in Seoul next week and oversee a friendly against Colombia on March 24.
Klinsmann has ahead a successful career as a football player and has in the past played for several prominent clubs, including Tottenham Hotspur, Bayern Munich, VfB Stuttgart, and Inter Milan. He scored 47 goals in 108 appearances for Germany.
Klinsmann succeeded former strike partner Rudi Voeller as coach of the German national team in 2004, in his first-ever position at a management level.
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In 2006, Klinsmann led Germany to third place in the 2006 World Cup on home soil and later took over Bayern before heading to the United States.
His most recent job was at Hertha Berlin, which he quit just 11 weeks after his appointment, leaving chaos as it fights against relegation from the Bundesliga.
The 58-year-old is set to succeed Paulo Bento, who took the Koreans to the last sixteen of the World Cup in Qatar, where they were thrashed 4-1 by Brazil.