Anchor:  Uli Stielike displayed impressive leadership as he led the Taegeuk Warriors to the final of the Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup in Australia in January. In his first exclusive interview with a South Korean broadcaster, the head coach presented to KBS his analysis of the South Korean national football team, and his plans to improve it. 
Our Moon Gwang-lip has more.
 
Report: Uli Stielike has taken a meticulous memo of six South Korean games during the Asian Cup in Australia. 
 
From the team’s first game against Oman to the final match with Australia, in which South Korea lost to the hosts 2-1, the head coach said, he observed three key problems. 
 
He criticized his team for repeating the same mistakes on the ground, saying the mishaps not only squandered a goal chance but also turned into a goal-allowing crisis. He also pointed to his players less-than-creative tactics and lack of precision in converting a chance into a goal.
 
He said, beyond his term, all South Korean national football teams, from youth teams to the senior ones, must focus on addressing three problems to usher in a brighter future of South Korean football.
 
[Sound bite: Head coach Uli Stielike, S. Korean National Football Team (Spanish)]
“I think the players should have done practices every day at their respective clubs and improved techniques. Constructive criticism brings improvement, because it can help find a problem as well as a solution to it.”
 
Asked why South Korea’s national team falls so far behind Brazil, Stielike pointed to teams like Germany for inspiration.
[Sound bite: Head coach Uli Stielike, S. Korean National Football Team (Spanish)]
“Brazil is geographically a big country. It has a bigger young population, and has a climate in which they can play football throughout the year. Such climate or cultural factors are at work in a limited fashion in such countries as South Korea, Switzerland and Germany. So, we may have to take it for granted that Brazil is so strong.”
 
Stielike expressed concern over a factional strife in the South Korean football community.
 
[Sound bite: Head coach Uli Stielike, S. Korean National Football Team (Spanish)]
“We need to be aware that such a problem exists, even at the national team. The Korea Football Association has a catchphrase, ‘Time for Change.’ I think the national team’s players can draw such a change. The national team’s players need to keep trying to solve the problems and bring a positive result to the team.”
 
Stielike, who took the reins of the national team last October, said he wants to be remembered by South Koreans as a coach who is welcomed even after leaving the team.
 
[Sound bite: Head coach Uli Stielike, S. Korean National Football Team (Spanish)]
“Many people have helped me adjust to life in South Korea. So, I am 100 percent satisfied with what I am doing here. What gives me the hardest time here is the spicy food. Apart from that, I like all of it. When the time has come to leave the team and if I want come back later, I want to be welcome. I have thought that way in every country and at every team that I have worked for. When I leave South Korea, I want to leave in a way that makes it possible for me to come back whenever I want.”
 
Saying he always tries to be understood by his players, Stielike underscored the importance of communication in realizing a common goal.
Moon Gwang-lip, KBS World Radio News.