#or like lee kangin and to some extent son heungmin grow up in academies outside of korea

[lee-kangin]

klinsmann: only when your players are in the best leagues in the world can you have a successful national team

heungmin a couple of days later definitely not being shady: to put it bluntly, there’s no guarantee that a national team will be successful just because its players play in europe

#get him skipper! #yeah but this is a very reductive way of seeing the sport honestly i get where klinsmann is coming from #but there is simply so much talent in the k league that can be coached and it’s extremely difficult to gain exposure there #and be brought into the ‘more successful’ leagues bc barely anyone is willing to give these kids a chance #most of them get their exposure from playing in international competitions (like cho guesung and bae junho etc) #or like lee kangin and to some extent son heungmin grow up in academies outside of korea #in heungmin’s case it was an outreach program the kfa did to develop footballing but ykwim #rahul.txt