Men's nat'l football team hires 2 new coaches in preparation for World Cup

The Korean men's national football team hired two new coaches Thursday, with the next FIFA World Cup less than a year away. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said Pedro Roma will be the new goalkeeper coach, while Nuno Matias will be the new fitness coach under head coach Hong Myung-bo. Both new additions hail from Portugal. Roma, 54, has served as the goalkeeper coach for Portugal's junior national teams, first from 2011 to 2019 and then from 2023 to this year, and for the Bahrain men's national team from 2019 to 2023. While in Korea, Roma will run goalkeeper clinics to help develop young custodians here when the national team is not in training camp, the KFA added. Matias, 41, has been the strength and conditioning coach for the Portuguese club Benfica since 2021, after serving as head of Benfica youth club's sports science team and conditioning coach for their B team. The KFA noted that Matias helped Benfica reach the round of 16 at the FIFA Club World Cup held in the United States last month, and his experience working with players there should help Korea when the U.S. co-hosts theWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times