Possible candidates for the job include Bert van Marwijk, 62; Fernando Santos, 60; Milovan Rajevac, 60; and Jose Antonio Camacho, 59, they said.
Van Marwijk, a Dutch, managed the national team from 2008 to 2012 and guided the Netherlands to the 2010 FIFA World Cup final.
A Portuguese, Santos coached the Greek team to the 2014 World Cup round of 16. In 2010, he was elected by the Greek Football League as the “best coach of the decade.”
Rajevac is a Serbian who guided Ghana to the quarterfinals of the 2010 World Cup, whereas Camacho is a Spanish who led the national team to the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup.
During a two-day meeting which ended at the National Football Center in Paju, north of Seoul, Thursday, members of the technical committee of the Korea Football Association (KFA) agreed to employ an European manager for the national team, the sources said.
After the meeting, the committee’s chairman, Lee Yong-soo, told reporters that the committee selected three foreign nationals as candidates for new head coach of the team.
Lee, however, refused to disclose the names of those candidates.
The post of South Korean head coach was vacated when Hong Myung-bo resigned on July 10 in the wake of the country’s early exit from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
South Korea failed to advance to the round of 16 in Brazil as it went winless – two losses and a draw - in Group H preliminary matches, its worst World Cup performance since 1998.
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Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
