“I am genuinely very sorry,” Hong Myung-bo said on Sunday as he resigned as head coach of South Korea, just hours after the team’s elimination from the 2026 World Cup was confirmed.
The head of the legendary former player, who captained the 2002 team to the semi-finals, was not the first to roll and won’t be the last, with the country up in arms as former Manchester United star Park Ji-sung said: “It is miserable that we’ve come to this moment where we have to look back and ask why we ended up here.”
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The anger has led to reported death threats
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