Shin Tae-Yong's Heavy Duty In The Indonesian National Team

Shin Tae-Yong. (Foto: FIFA)

JAKARTA - The plan is that the name of the coach of the Indonesian national football team will be announced by the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) tomorrow, December 26. From recent comments from PSSI officials, one name that is almost certain to become the national team coach is Shin Tae-Yong.

The homeland public actually still hopes that Luis Milla will return to fill the post of coach of the Indonesian national team. However, his name had to be eliminated because he could not guarantee a champion in his presentation to PSSI officials some time ago.

Even though in the era of Luis Milla, the Indonesian national team was able to show a slick game that was able to entertain the eyes of Indonesian football lovers. In fact, the Indonesian national team almost broke into the top eight of the 2018 Asian Games if they did not lose in the penalty shootout drama with the United Arab Emirates.

Well, that will be Shin Tae-Yong's tough task, in which he must restore public confidence in the country. Moreover, the Indonesian national team has just been "battered" when handled by Simon McMenemy, who was unable to provide a single victory in the Qatar 2022 World Cup Qualification some time ago.

The public certainly hopes that Tae-Yong can make the national team as good as when handled by Milla, or even surpass him. When compared to Simon, Tae-Yong's training experience is far more capable.

The beginning of Tae-Yong's coaching career began when he became an assistant coach in the Australian team, Brisbane Roar, in 2005. Bisbane Roar itself is a club where he ended his career as a footballer at the age of 35 years.

Then, Tae-yong returned to his old club, Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma FC, in early December 2008. Tae-Yong is a legend of the club, where he played for the South Korean club in the 1992-2004 period.

His name is increasingly known when he succeeded in bringing Seongnam to win the Asian Champions League in the 2009/2010 season. After leaving Seongnam, Tae-yong continued his coaching career to a higher level by struggling at the national team level.

He became assistant coach of the South Korean national team on January 1, 2014. It took only seven months, Tae-yong was appointed as the interim coach of the South Korean national team on August 17 of the same year.

However, since South Korea appointed Uli Stielike in early September 2014 to mid-June 2017, Tae-Yong has again become assistant coach of South Korea. However, Tae-Yong's assignment did not end there.

Since becoming Uli's assistant, Tae-yong was also assigned to become the coach of the U-23 and U-20 South Korean national team. This is where the point of his career is getting brighter.

At the U-23 level, Tae-yong successfully led his country to advance to the 2016 Rio Olympics quarter-finals and simultaneously won the AFC U-23 Cup in the same year. He also managed to bring his U-20 level to the last 16 of the U-20 World Cup in 2017.

In the same year, on July 4 2017, Tae-yong officially replaced Uli's role, who was fired by the South Korean Senior National Team. During his career at the Senior National Team, Tae-yong successfully brought his country to the 2018 World Cup in Russia yesterday. However, the coach who was born in Yeongdeok-gun, South Korea, failed to bring the country through the group phase after losing to Sweden and Mexico in Group F.

Even so, his squad was able to make a surprise in the last match, where South Korea was able to beat the countries that won the 2014 World Cup, namely Germany, with a score of 2-0. Even though both of them failed to qualify for the group phase, at least in this match Tae-Yong made Germany the bottom inhabitants of Group F of the 2018 World Cup in Russia yesterday.

After the biggest competition ended, he is still unemployed until now. However, soon Tae-Yong will have a tough task, where he was asked by PSSI not only to become the senior national team coach, but also to help develop the U-20 Indonesian national team.

As is known, Indonesia was chosen to host the 2021 U-20 World Cup. Shin Tae-yong is expected to be able to help the U-19 Indonesian National Team to compete at the World Cup level.