"If you fire Klinsmann, you have to pay a penalty of 7.5 billion won..."
“If you want to be fired, you have to pay a huge penalty.”
Criticism continues against coach Jürgen Klinsmann of the Korean national soccer team, who failed to win the 2023 AFC Qatar Asian Cup. Demands for dismissal are pouring in.
Amid continued criticism that the process was much more brutal than the outcome of the game, veteran Japanese soccer reporter Kaz Kakiuchi is drawing attention with his claim about the 'penalty for Klinsmann's sacking'.
On the 7th, reporter Kakiuchi claimed through his
Kakiuchi explained that he can make this claim because he obtained some information from key officials of the Korea Football Association.
He said, "For Klinsmann, advancing to the semifinals seems to have been a contractual achievement," and "I understand that automatic dismissal is impossible. If he had been eliminated in the quarterfinals, he could have been dismissed without penalty."
In other words, if you were eliminated in the round of 16 or quarterfinals, you could have been cut without penalty because you failed to achieve the promised results, but since you advanced to the semifinals, you have to pay a penalty.
Kakiuchi criticized Klinsmann's 'incompetence', saying, "There are two and a half years left on Klinsmann's contract." Klinsmann did not play any tactical role.
He claimed, “All of the team’s tactics were performed by the players, and tactics were discussed from the bottom up.”
Meanwhile, Director Klinsmann's annual salary is estimated to be around 3 billion won. Since there are about two and a half years left on his current contract, his dismissal penalty is approximately 7.5 billion won.
Typically, the penalty is not a lump sum. If you take office as a manager at another club or national team, the payment of the penalty ends.
However, he has been shunned by soccer teams around the world because he has continued to fail and has not shown any sense of responsibility, and despite the opposition of all soccer fans and soccer people, he has failed in the Korean team, which he took on by only one person, and it seems that he has nowhere to go.