PHNOM PENH, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Soccer news in brief from around the world:
Cambodia have hired former South Korean international Yoo Kee-heung to coach the struggling national team, the country's soccer federation said.
Yoo, whose salary will be paid for by a South Korean company, takes charge of a near-penniless team that has won nothing and sits 183rd in the world rankings. The Korean Technology Company has agreed a sponsorship deal with the team worth $205,000 a year, half of which will be Yoo's salary.
"Our new coach has already arrived," Sao Sokha, Cambodia's soccer federation president, told Reuters. "He will be with us for three years."
Yoo, 60, was a member of South Korea's coaching staff at the 1994 World Cup.
Cambodia have hired former South Korean international Yoo Kee-heung to coach the struggling national team, the country's soccer federation said.
Yoo, whose salary will be paid for by a South Korean company, takes charge of a near-penniless team that has won nothing and sits 183rd in the world rankings. The Korean Technology Company has agreed a sponsorship deal with the team worth $205,000 a year, half of which will be Yoo's salary.
"Our new coach has already arrived," Sao Sokha, Cambodia's soccer federation president, told Reuters. "He will be with us for three years."
Yoo, 60, was a member of South Korea's coaching staff at the 1994 World Cup.
3 comments:
I think we have a lot of rich folks in srok khmer, but none of them want to sponsor or donate to the team. Sad.
When poor khmer people went to Vietnam, Thailand to beg on the streets Cambodian government official labeled them as people that ruined our country dignity. What the difference between the people and the government? Both are beggars. Don't we feel ashamed of ourselves? Don't we have our dignity?
Undoubtedly, there ARE rich people in Cambodia who can easily sponsor or donate money to the national team, but they all could care less. They only want money for themselves. Then again, who in Cambodia doesn't think this way?
The national team is run by a general who's a very close ally of ah Hun Sen. ah Hun Sen is a big soccer fanatic, why doesn't he pitch in some money? Hahaha...good luck on trying to get him to do that!
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