The Big Thing: discussing South Korea's exit from the Asian Cup, as well as Jurgen Klinsmann's time in charge of the team
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Big Thing episode, we revisit an old friend: Jurgen Klinsmann. With his South Korea side now eliminated from the 2023 Asian Cup, we look back on the team's performance at the tournament itself, how things have progressed (or not progressed) with Klinsmann in charge, and what's likely to happen next as the country's Golden Generation misses a chance for silverware. Were South Korea fortunate to even make it as far as the semi-finals? Were there signs of disgruntlement with Klinsmann before the tournament? How similar are the current complaints against Klinsmann to those when he was in charge of the USMNT? Oh, and also, who will win the Asian Cup final this weekend? Those questions and more, answered for you... while Taylor tries not to go off on a rant on multiple occasions.
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| 1:26.7 | The future is open. Hello, to do it, Hello everybody and welcome to a big thing episode of the Total Soccer Show. |
| 1:27.7 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week we're turning our attention to the south korea national team they |
| 1:32.1 | sport an international superstar in tottnam's son hum min they've got very talented |
| 1:36.7 | complimentary pieces in ps g's league hang in wolverhampton's wong he chan as well as birene munich |
| 1:41.9 | defender kim minjai who straddles the line between superstar and big-name player. I wasn't quite sure how to categorize him. They have a domestic league with plenty of talent, both young and old, and they entered the 2024 or 2023 Asian Cup as a strong contender with the second best odds to win the whole thing, and their manager saying that anything less than a win was a failure. But now they're out of the tournament at the hands of Jordan, who also caused them problems in the group stage, and that manager, Eirgen-Klinzman, faces an uncertain future, unless you ask him. How did this tournament play out for South Korea? What has Klinsman done at his time in charge? What has he not done? And what comes next, both for him and the national team as a whole. Here with me to talk at all out are |
| 2:22.2 | Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Hello, Taylor. And Graham Ruffin, hello, Graham. |
| 2:26.8 | Hello. Graham, I'm very excited for this episode, apprehensive that I, as the host, without |
| 2:33.3 | Ryan Bailey in charge, might end up taking |
| 2:35.3 | us on a 45-minute rant about your Hedin Clemsman. |
| 2:37.6 | I'm going to try to avoid that and instead turn it to you to explain why we are dedicating |
| 2:43.5 | an episode of the big thing to a team that we're not the favorites, but we're like one |
| 2:48.3 | of the favorites getting knocked out in the semifinal. |
| 2:50.8 | That's not really like the biggest of big things, but it does feel appropriate in this situation. |
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