South Korea fires national team soccer coach

The coach of the South Korean national soccer team has been fired in the wake of a brawl between star player and captain Son Heung-min and midfielder Lee Kang-in before the team’s disastrous Asian Cup exit, reports CNN.

“(Jürgen) Klinsmann has failed to show his competence in managing the game, the players, along with the expected attitudes as a South Korean coach,” Chung Mong-gyu, chairman of the Korean Football Association (KFA) said announcing Klinsmann’s ouster on Friday.

“Klinsmann’s competence and his attitudes do not measure up to the standard of the Korean nationals.”

Anger over Klinsmann’s management of the national team has been heating up in South Korea since its Asian Cup disappointment and news of the altercation between the hugely popular Son and rising star Lee.

Earlier Friday, a KFA official confirmed to CNN that Son, the Tottenham Hotspur superstar and captain, and Lee, who plays his club ball for Paris Saint-Germain in France’s Ligue 1, were involved in a fight the night before the national team’s 2-0 loss to Jordan in an Asian Cup semifinal on February 6._Agencies.