There were some players who played better than Cha Doo-ri (40) in Korean football, but few players left the ground with much love. New Zealand exhibition on March 31, 2015. The day of Cha Doo-ri's 76th and final A match. After the first half, the 33,000 fans at the Seoul World Cup Stadium gave a standing ovation the moment they passed the ground. There was a large placard with "Thank you Cha Du-ri" on the audience seat. This is a scene that even his father, Cha Bum-geun (67), who was considered the best player of all time, could not enjoy it. 'Cha Boom' was proud of his son. "I didn't have a retirement ceremony at the time. And how nice it is to leave while clapping like this." The legend that scored 58 goals in 136 matches of A match hugged her son.


It was also a day when my expectations for'Director Cha Doo-ri' grew. “I was loved so much more than I did,” he shed tears, arranging his team life honestly and calmly. There was a word that changed the serious mood by itself. "I saw a comment a while ago, and I shouldn't be sympathetic, but the sympathy is going on.'The physical is the father and the foot is the mother.'" Laughing sound filled the press conference. "I'm definitely not a brilliant player with great skills, but I had other advantages. Um... I think so. I look at the player's strength in Europe. I maximize the strength and use it for the team. There is some perfectionism in our country. I think the players seem to be shrinking in the process of making up for the shortcomings. There is no perfect player. This honesty, joy and warmth. That was why Cha Doo-ri was loved throughout.
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five years after that. FC Seoul's 18-year-old (U-18) team coach Cha Doo-ri, who climbed the command tower of Osango, seemed to be trying to put the words into action. "Sanghoon~ Good!" "Yes, I have to see there." "Okay, okay." In the game against the U-18 Bucheon team, he encouraged and praised the players for 90 minutes. No moment sat in the chair. In the first year of his manager's debut, he won all six high league games (including two games for the lower grades). I was curious.

-If the game doesn't work as you wish, don't you feel complacent just to compliment?
"There is no correct answer in soccer. I don't know if there is a correct answer like a mathematical formula, but I think it's contradictory to do this or something like that. I tell players about various options, and in the end, you have to make your own choice in the stadium. I don't want to, but I want to give my children freedom of choice."

After finishing his career, he took a leadership class in Germany. He joined the 2018 Russia World Cup national team as a coach and took charge of the German power analysis to help strengthen the miracle of Kazan. Since then, he has repeatedly written on the social media the phrase “#Korean soccer roots first.”

-What did you feel in Germany as a leader training?
"There's a lot of talk to our players.'I hope you guys aren't at their peak right now.' There are a lot of cases in Korea that show a good appearance in high school and have difficulty getting up to where you want to go. It's not important to win and lose now, it's just a process. I want to be a player who smokes."

-2002 Korea-Japan World Cup quarterfinal Shinhwa, 2010 South Africa World Cup first round of 16, and coached to help the German victory in the 2018 Russia World Cup. How can the World Cup glory experience help you lead?
"Maybe these guys want to go to the World Cup and the European stage. It's helpful to be able to tell us what way to get there and what difficulties are waiting there. same."

-Why is'#Korean soccer roots strong' emphasized?
"Football powerhouse is putting a lot of investment and devotion into the youth system. It's not just'hard-working', it's not only'to be eager' but to teach things that must be learned at that age. It's because we can't adapt. It means we want our youth athletes to be well trained for their ages."

Osango captain Lee Tae-seok, 18, said, "There have been a lot of changes since the director came." The most prominent feature of coach Cha Du-ri that players feel is energy. Lee Tae-seok laughed, saying, "It always gives positive energy, and it gives a lot of fun both on and off the playground."


-It's my first year as a director, is it fun?
"Haha. It's fun. I meet children every morning, prepare for training, yell, laugh and sometimes get angry. It's more rewarding and fun than when I'm running as a player."

-Do you have a dream you want to achieve as a leader?
"Dream... I don't know. I'm trying to change the training program and the system, but the club is thinking positively about it, so I'm trying to make it happen. We need to help FC Seoul take the lead and go in a good direction. I wish I could."
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last question I prepared in advance was "Strongly From the Roots of High School ." 'As a director, I wondered if I wanted to go beyond my father.' "It's a burden that I can't eat on my father's face because I wasn't able to eat it on my father's face" when he was put on the Taegeuk mark for the first time since being selected for the 2001 Olympic national team. And 14 years later, the player's life was organized like this. "I wanted to do better than my father, and I challenged that reputation by believing that I could do it. I felt a wall of reality and I hated it a little bit. No matter how well I play this football, no matter how hard I try, I can't go anywhere near it." This time, I wanted to hear the ambition of'I will go beyond my father's'tea director' to my son'tea director'.

As I tried to open my mouth, I suddenly came across the words of the coach, the rich man, in a documentary commemorating the 2014 Brazil World Cup. First, my father confessed. "Because I have a father's shade, I can be very tired because I compare with me no matter how much. As a real dad, it hurts so much." In another space, the son said, "If I played soccer as well as (Park) Jisung, I would be proud of my father if I played soccer as well as Son Heung-min. I'm very sorry for my father for not being there." .

Swallowed the last question. At the end of the interview, director Cha Doo-ri imagined that Cha Bum-geun climbed to a place where he could not climb and smiled brightly.