Huh Jung-moo

Huh Jung- moo ( born January 13, 1955 in Jindo, South Korea ) is a former South Korean football player and former coach of the South Korean national football team.

Playing career

Huh played professionally for PSV Eindhoven and Hyundai Horang -i. As an international, he took part in the Football World Cup 1986 in Mexico.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career in 1986 became coach Huh. With the Football World Cup 1990, he worked as a fitness trainer in the coaching staff of South Korea. The following year he was already. Assistant coach of K -League club Pohang Steelers, which he took over in 1993 as chief responsibility for coach Huh then returned for a while as an assistant coach for the national team, which narrowly missed under Kim Ho at the Football World Cup 1994 in the USA the second round feeder.

His second term as Korean coach had little success. In the opening match of the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998 his team defeated the team of Turkmenistan with 2:3, before finally with 1:2 retired in the quarterfinals against hosts Thailand. Despite these disappointing results Huh was later regarded as the coach, the talented young players such as Lee Young- pyo, Seol Ki- hyeon and Park Ji-sung brought into the national team.

In autumn 2000, Huh charge of the U -23 South Korea 's Olympic football tournament, before he took over in October, the senior team at the Asian Cup in Lebanon and finished in third place. After he had resigned as coach Huh served the Korean Football Association at the Football World Cup in 2002 as a technical advisor for the national team under Guus Hiddink. In 2004 he was deputy chairman of the technical committee. During the Asian Cup in China in 2004, he was the first assistant coach Johannes Bonfrere. In December 2007, he was re-appointed coach of South Korea and qualified with his team for the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa. At the World Cup his team reached the knockout stages, which they lost 1:2 against Uruguay. After the first knockout round from Huh Jung- moo resigned as coach of the South Korean national team down to yourself " recharge " and take his football studies again. In August 2010 it was announced that he will be the new coach of Incheon United, where he stayed until 2012. Since 2013 he has been Vice President of the Korea Football Association.

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