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'Meal'Not long after Kim Sang-sik, head coach of the Vietnamese national soccer team, won the Southeast Asian Championship, it was announced that Shin Tae-yong, head coach of the Indonesian national soccer team, who was Kim's teammate in Seongnam, was fired.
The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) announced on its official website on the 6th that it has terminated its contract with Shin Tae-yong, the coach of the Indonesian national team and the U-23 national team. PSSI has carefully considered and evaluated the performance and long-term goals of the national team over a long period of time. PSSI would like to thank everyone who contributed to the development of the Indonesian team. I wish coach Shin Tae-yong the future, he said. Shin, who took over as Indonesia's coach on January 8, 2020, renewed his contract in April last year to extend the contract period to June 30, 2027. In other words, he was fired with two and a half years left before the expiration of the contract.
At a press conference held at the Danarexa Tower in Jakarta, Indonesia, PSSI Chairman Eric Tohir said "STY (Shin Tae-yong) received a letter about the end of our relationship." I would like to express my gratitude"It was an inevitable decision for the dynamism of the national team that needs special attention" Chairman Tohir said at the meeting that he had already confirmed Shin's replacement. He is scheduled to arrive in Indonesia on the 11th and a press conference is scheduled on the 12th" he said. According to the Indonesian version of 'BBC'Dutch Legend' Director Patrick Clawybert is mentioned as a strong candidate.
"We need leadership to implement strategies that players can accept, to communicate better, and to execute better programs for the national team," Tohir said.
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Indonesia's multiple media speculates that Shin Tae-yong's poor performance at the 2024 Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF) Mitsubishi Cup, which determines the strongest player in Southeast Asian soccer, is the decisive cause of his dismissal. Indonesia failed to select its main naturalized players for the Mitsubishi Cup, not the FIFA official tournament, and participated mainly in resources under the age of 22 and failed to advance to the semifinals.
After taking the helm of Indonesia, Shin led the AFF Cup runner-up in 2020, the SEA Games bronze in 2021, and the AFF U-23 Cup runner-up in 2023. He beat South Korea to reach the semifinals at the 2024 U-23 Asian Cup, leading Indonesia to its first round of 16 at the Asian Cup and the third qualifying round at the World Cup. In November last year, he won a surprise 2-0 victory over Saudi Arabia in the sixth game of the third World Cup qualifying round. Indonesia, which remained at 173rd place in the FIFA rankings in 2020, ranked 125th in November last year under coach Shin. Currently, it's 127th place.
However, President Tohir's idea to take a drive to advance to the World Cup finals forced him to leave bitterly without completing the 2026 World Cup qualifying round. Korean leaders, including Choi In-cheol, Yeom Ki-hoon and Cho Byeong-guk, who were working with Shin, also seem to have been notified of the breakup at the same time. Indonesia is in third place among the six teams with one win, three draws, two losses and six points in Group C of the third qualifying round for the World Cup.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
