Candidates for South Korea’s new national football head coach revealed

Neil Lennon from Northern Ireland, former head coach of Celtic FC in the Scottish Premier League, is on the list of foreign candidates for new head coach of South Korea’s men's national football team, a Scottish newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Other candidates include:

◆Frank Rijkaard, former Dutch head coach of Turkish soccer club Galatasaray.

◆Luciano Spalletti, former Italian head coach of Russian football club Zenit St. Petersburg.

◆Martin Jol, former Dutch head coach of Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League.

◆Jorge Luis Pinto, a Colombian who led Costa Rica to the quarterfinals at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

The post has been vacant since Hong Myung-bo resigned on July 10 in the wake of South Korea’s failure to advance to the round of 16 of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Park Sae-jin swatchsjp@ajunews.com

Candidates for South Korea’s new national football head coach revealed

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