Jose Morais, right, will take control of Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors next season.
Portugal’s Jose Morais will take over as head coach at Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors after long-serving incumbent Choi Kang-hee departs at the end of the season, the K-League champions said.
Morais, who has worked under Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho during spells at Benfica, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Chelsea, will become the club’s first foreign coach.
“Given his wealth of experience in European football, we felt Morais was the perfect coach for our club’s philosophy,” Jeonbuk were quoted…
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Dejan Damjanovic scored two late goals to give Suwon Bluewings a 3-0 win over Jeonbuk Motors on Wednesday in the first leg of the Asian Champions League quarterfinal.
Jeonbuk, the 2016 champions and 21 points ahead of Suwon in South Korea’s K-League, had been expected to win at Jeonju World Cup Stadium but conceded three goals in the final 15 minutes.
Damjanovic, a 37-year-old forward from Montenegro now has 34 goals in the competition, which leaves him just two behind all-time leader Lee Dong-Gook,…
Jason Dasey and PJ Roberts evaluate Malaysia’s upcoming fixture versus North Korea which will be played on neutral soil.
From Premier League flop to South Korean record-breaker, the career of Lee Dong-Gook has reached such lows and highs that it deserves its own ride at the Everland theme park, just south of Seoul.
A legend in Asia and freshly crowned 2017 K-League champion, the man known as the Lion King due to an early hairstyle, never rebuilt his reputation in England after a disappointing spell in the top flight with Middlesbrough.
He arrived on Teesside in Jan. 2007 and told local media that he wanted to “have…
Jeonbuk Motors lost their appeal before the CAS to defend their ACL title.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Court of Arbitration for Sport has blocked Asian Champions League winner Jeonbuk Motors from defending their title because of a bribery scandal.
CAS says it dismissed the South Korean club’s request for an interim order to freeze the ban imposed by the Asian Football Confederation.
The order was issued on Friday, four days before playoff matches involving another Korean club who replaced Jeonbuk Motors.
The AFC says “it is the utmost priority for the AFC to protect the…
Jeonbuk Motors won the 2016 Asian Champions League title by defeating Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates.
Jeonbuk Motors will not be able to defend the Asian Champions League title they won last year after being disqualified for the 201…