South Korea has narrowed down the candidates for its men's national team head coach to four or five, the sport's technical director said Wednesday.Lee Yong-soo, head of the technical committee at the Korea Football Association, told reporters that the goal is to fill the coaching vacancy within September but did not name any of the candidates."We have contacted four to five candidates about the position," Lee told reporters at the National Football Center in Paju, north of Seoul. "We hope to hav

Two South Korean soccer teams will battle this week for a berth in the semifinals of the top Asian club competition.FC Seoul will host Pohang Steelers on Wednesday at Seoul World Cup Stadium in the second leg of their quarterfinals in the AFC Champions League. The kickoff will be 7:30 p.m.The all-K League Classic showdown opened with a scoreless draw last Wednesday. The aggregate score determines the winner in the home-and-away series, but since neither team could find the back of the net in the

LONDON (AP) ― Lionel Messi and Barcelona are already up and running at full speed in the Spanish league. Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United is still stumbling out of the blocks in the Premier League.Messi scored two goals in a comfortable win over Elche, and United is still looking for its first victory of the season after being held to a draw by Sunderland.Messi helped 10-man Barcelona start the Spanish league with a 3-0 win over Elche in the debut of coach Luis Enrique, with the Argentina star

The nation's governing body of professional football on Friday approved a proposal by a local business conglomerate to found a new club for next season.In its board meeting, the K League gave the green light to Eland to launch a new team to be based in Seoul.     Eland, which operates about 250 affiliates in retail, apparels and food service, had first declared its intention to get into professional football in April.Eland will use the Jamsil Olympic Stadium in southern Seoul as its home base, a

Host South Korea has received the top seeds in both men’s and women’s football tournament at the upcoming Asian Games, the sport’s national governing body said on Tuesday.The Korea Football Association said the men’s squad is one of eight countries to receive a seed for the Asian Games.Incheon, a west coast metropolitan city, will host the Asiad from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, but the group stage in football starts on Sept. 14.As the host nation, South Korea has automatically landed in Group A in both

Having failed to reach an agreement with a foreign head coaching candidate for its men’s national football team, South Korea will take a coaching-by-committee approach for two upcoming friendly matches, the sport’s technical director said Monday.Lee Yong-soo, head of the technical committee at the Korea Football Association, held a press conference to offer details on the KFA’s failure to come to terms with Bert van Marwijk. The Dutchman had been in negotiations with the KFA to become South Kore

South Korea's negotiations with Bert van Marwijk, a former Dutch national head coach who had expressed interest in leading the South Korean national men's senior football team, have broken down due to a disagreement on salary and the length of his stay in the country, according to the local football association Sunday.Officials from the Korea Football Association (KFA) had been in talks with van Marwijk in Amsterdam since early August to fill the national football head coach position that has be