The Polemic Of The Future Shin Tae-yong: PSSI Is 'Resolved'

JAKARTA PSSI Executive Committee (Exco) member Yoyok Sukawi assessed that Shin Tae-yong's contract needs to be extended. According to him, the South Korean tactician has made many positive changes in Indonesian football.

"In my opinion, Shin Tae-yong has brought a lot of positive changes in national football," said Yoyok at the Sultan Hotel, Sunday, January 15 yesterday.

Shin's fate in the coaching chair has again become the subject of discussion after failing to bring the Indonesian national team to win the 2022 AFF Cup. Several members of Exco PSSI even asked him to withdraw.

One of the committee members who loudly asked Shin Tae-yong to resign was June Rahman. He said the former Korean national team coach was to blame for Indonesia's failure to get the first title at the AFF.

However, Yoyok disagreed with that. According to him, the changes that Shin brought were very visible, both in the national team of the age group and the senior national team so that mistakes could not be delegated only to the coach.

"Only yesterday at the AFF, all kinds of things like nature did not want Indonesia to become a champion. So, it cannot be wrong to only delegate it to Shin Tae-yong," he said.

Although he has not been able to escort Garuda's AFF champions, Shin is noted to have made the achievement of taking the Indonesian national team to the Asian Cup this year. He ended the wait for the Red and White for 15 years.

In addition, he is also the one who made the Indonesian national team age group U-19 years able to advance to the U-20 Asian Cup this year. This achievement made Shin considered necessary to be maintained.

"If I definitely still support Shin until the end of his contract. If it can be extended. He is a good coach. I have been in football for more than 20 years I know he is a good coach," said Yoyok.

Shin Tae-yong was introduced as the coach of the Indonesian national team in December 2019. He is bound by a four-year contract so that his term of office will automatically be completed by the end of this year.