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Coach Shin Tae-yong, who is leading the Indonesian U-23 (under 23) national soccer team, cannot be happier.
Indonesia, led by head coach Shin Tae-yong, is set to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 (under 23) Qatar Asian Cup against South Korea led by head coach Hwang Sun-hong at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, at 11 p.m. on the 26th (Korea time).
Coach Shin Tae-yong, who had a break after leading the Taegeuk Warriors at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, signed a four-year contract with the Indonesian Football Association in 2020. He worked hard to grow Indonesian soccer by taking charge of national team A and national team by age.
As the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Qatar Asian Cup was postponed to January, coach Shin Tae-yong extended his six-month contract with the Indonesian Football Association, showing better-than-expected performance at the time and successfully advancing to the round of 16. Coach Shin Tae-yong, who confirmed his advance to the round of 16 at the Asian Cup for the first time in history, enjoyed the joy of victory, but in the round of 16, he ended his journey with a 0-4 defeat to Australia.
In this tournament, which was held about two months later, he lost 0-2 to Qatar in the first round of the group stage, but beat Australia in the second and Jordan in the third round to win and lose 2-1, marking the first tournament for Indonesia’s U-23 national team.
The event will also serve as a preliminary match for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The first to third places will go straight to the finals, and the fourth-place team will decide one remaining ticket through an intercontinental playoff against Guinea, the fourth-place team in Africa. If head coach Shin Tae-yong’s Indonesia succeeds in advancing to the Olympics, it will set a monumental record for the first time in 68 years since the 1956 Melbourne Games.
Indonesian fans’ support for Shin Tae-yong, who showed impressive leadership, hit the sky, and Eric Tohir, president of the Indonesian Football Association, posted a photo of him flying to Qatar and shaking hands at a Korean restaurant with Shin Tae-yong on his SNS, announcing the extension of the contract, saying, “I decided to work with Shin Tae-yong until 2027.”
However, for manager Shin Tae-yong, this game is a “fate joke.” Having dreamed of advancing to the Olympics with his home country, he can now achieve his goal only by knocking down his home country. At a press conference held a day before the game, head coach Shin Tae-yong said, “I really wanted to avoid Korea in this quarterfinal. Even if it was hard, I wanted to face Japan. “It was because I played against Japan a lot from my days as a player to my days as a coach,” he said.
“I wanted to avoid coach Hwang Sun-hong and my country, Korea, and go to the Olympics together ahead of the competition, but I met him like this as if it was a joke of fate,” he said. I will do my best in all games,” he said.
Coach Shin Tae-yong, who led the Korean A team and the U-20 and U-23 teams, will face his country Korea for the first time. Coach Shin Tae-yong said, “Honestly, it’s hard. It’s even more so because I’ve led the team while coaching if I hadn’t been in charge of the Korean national team. When he led Korea, he confessed honestly, “I played the game by singing the national anthem loudly with the heart of playing with the players, but it is mentally difficult.”
Coach Shin Tae-yong said of Hwang Sun-hong, “Korea is physically outstanding. The defensive line is also solid and strong. It’s a tough part for us. “We have to break Korea’s strengths in order to win,” he said, citing Lee Young-joon (Kim Cheon Sang-moo), Um Ji-sung (Gwangju FC), and Jung Sang-bin (Minnesota United) as the targets of caution. “Lee Young-joon is doing quite well, and Um Ji-sung and Jung Sang-bin are also wary of the side. There are many things we need to be careful about because the physical conditions are so good,” he added.
Kim Young Hoon, reporter for MK Sports.
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