“There is plenty of room for improvement if you do work through enough consultation”
“Kim Ha-sung and Kim Sang-soo left, but the expectation for a new face is bigger than worry.”
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Kiwoom Heroes announced on the 21st that it has appointed head coach Hong Won-ki (pictured) as the new director. 2021.1.21
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Chang-yong = New coach Hong Won-ki (48) of Kiwoom Heroes, a professional baseball player, climbed the command tower in perhaps the most difficult time.
Kim Ha-sung (San Diego Padres) and Kim Sang-soo (SK Wyverns), the core of the batting line and the bullpen, left the team side by side in Kiwoom’s power of fifth place last season.
In addition, uncertainty has also been added, as foreign hitters have not yet been decided among the 10 clubs.
Nevertheless, new coach Hong declared that he would run toward winning the Korean Series in the 2021 season.
New coach Hong, who was contacted after the announcement of the manager’s appointment on the 21st, said, “Even when important players such as Kang Jung-ho, Park Byeong-ho, Yuhan-jun, etc. passed out, our club has overcome without a big gap.
New coach Hong said, “Of course I can’t fill 100% of the vacant positions of Kim Ha-sung and Kim Sang-soo, but the existing players will give up strength and new faces will show good energy.” Said energetically.
Kiwoom was replaced last season when Sohn Hyeok was on the verge of’Autumn Baseball’.
The performance plummeted amid suspicions that the club’s leadership, led by Chairman Heo Min, was actually hardening the former coach.
The ranking, which was 3rd place, fell to 5th place after Sohn’s resignation, and the season ended after losing in the wild card game, the first edition of the postseason.
It was not unrelated to such a complicated internal situation that the prospect that the new director would be decided by an internal promotion was revealed.
In the end, Kiwoom was a founding member of Heroes and worked as a coach for the club for 12 years, and left the baton to Chief Coach Wonki Hong, who is well aware of the internal situation.
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What would the new coach Hong think about the’interference and pressure of the club’s leadership’, which is discussed like a dogma?
He said, “There are parts that I can do and there are parts that I can’t do,” he said. “First of all, as a manager, it is most important to perform with the players on the ground.”
He said, “I think there is a realm of the field,” he said. “If we deal with work through sufficient consultation with the new head of Hyung-wook Go, there is plenty of room for improvement.”
New coach Hong also announced that he will do his best to change the team culture so that Kiwoom can become the team the players want to remain, not the team they want to leave.
“I want to play for a long time on this team, and I think it’s my job to give direction and make it so that I can truly love the team,” he said.
There are a lot of other tasks for the new director Hong.
In addition to appointing coaches as soon as possible, we need to prepare for the spring camp that is approaching ten days ahead.
He said, “I have a lot of worries about being late, but our club has a system that we have been doing so far,” he said. “If only the coach team is decided, there is no problem with training at Gocheok Sky Dome from February 1st. The habit of preparing is ingrained in the body,” he said.
He also introduced foreign batters who are still vacant, “I don’t want anyone to come because I’m chased by time,” and “I asked the club to carefully select players as time remains until the start of April.”
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