SEOUL, Chung Mong-gyu, the much-maligned president of the Korea Football Association (KFA), will meet with senior executives on Friday to determine the fate of the beleaguered men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, the sport's national governing body announced. The KFA said Thursday that Chung will gather other members of the leadership group for a meeting at 10 a.m. Friday at the KFA headquarters. They will review the recommendation made by the KFA's National Team Committee earlier Thursday to fire Klinsmann, in light of South Korea's disappointing semifinal exit from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup last week in Qatar. The opening moments of the meeting will be open to media, making it Chung's first appearance since South Korea's 2-0 loss to Jordan in the semifinals on Feb. 6. The National Team Committee is an advisory group that discusses issues related to national team operations and makes recommendations as necessary. The ball is now squarely in Chung's court, with public pre ssure also growing on the KFA honcho to resign for hiring Klinsmann in February last year. According to a KFA official, Chung may not be able to reach his decision by the end of Friday. Even if he does, it wasn't yet certain if Chung will announce his decision at a press conference or in some other form, the official added. Chung was conspicuous by his absence Tuesday when a few senior executives, including technical director Hwangbo Kwan and National Team Committee head Michael Muller, met for a brief postmortem on the country's showing at the Asian Cup. The KFA explained that the meeting mostly featured former players among KFA executives and that they had "an open discussion on a wide range of topics." Chung traveled to Qatar for the Asian Cup earlier this month and was in attendance for South Korea's loss to Jordan. After returning to South Korea last Thursday, Klinsmann said he met with Chung twice after the tournament ended but the two didn't discuss Klinsmann's immediate future with the national te am, despite mounting pressure on both to step down. Instead, Klinsmann said they reviewed and analyzed the team's performance together. Following the National Team Committee's meeting Thursday, Hwangbo told reporters that its members decided, based on "a number of reasons," that Klinsmann could no longer exercise his leadership as head coach of the national team. Among their reasons, they cited Klinsmann's lack of tactical preparation, inability to identify and address strife among players, and refusal to live in South Korea despite persistent criticism against him for spending too much time overseas. Klinsmann, on the other hand, blamed the team's semifinal exit on disharmony within the team -- highlighted by an apparent dustup between captain Son Heung-min and midfielder Lee Kang-in the night before the Jordan match -- instead of on the lack of tactical preparation, according to Hwangbo. Chung has yet to comment on Klinsmann's tenuous job security or the Son-Lee incident. Many protesters have staged dem onstrations outside the KFA office this week demanding Chung's resignation. Source: Yonhap News Agency