Heungkuk Life, a female professional volleyball player who suffered from the excommunication of school violence by sisters Lee Jae-young and Da-young, escaped from their fourth straight victory. Kim Yeon-kyung, the captain of the team who is currently recording 18-7 in the fifth round of the regular league this season, said, “It was the most impressive victory this season.
Heungkuk Life Insurance defeated KGC Ginseng Corporation with a set score 3-1 (25-18 22-25 25-17 25-22) at the Dodram 2020-2021 V-League home game held at Incheon Gyeyang Gymnasium on the 19th.
Heungkuk Life Insurance, who lost in the IBK Industrial Bank match on the 16th with the minimum score in the women’s division this season (41 points) and the most score difference in the club season (34 points difference), scored 3 points for the performance of Kim Yeon-kyung and foreign player Bruna.
On this day, Kim Yeon-kyung was active with 24 points. Bruna, who only scored 1 in the previous IBK match, scored 30 points, including 1 sub-ace and 3 blocking. Bruna led the victory by scoring the most in the team.
When Lucia, an existing foreign player, left with a shoulder injury at the end of last year, Heungkuk Life Insurance joined Bruna at the end of last month.
However, Bruna, who joined the team later than scheduled due to the confirmation of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and lacked training time, was unable to properly melt into the team due to the cluttered team atmosphere caused by the’twin sisters’.
Bruna completely lost confidence on the court as the defensive involvement and frequent crimes continued. It was extremely sluggish, with only 20 points in the last five games. Nevertheless, Kim Yeon-kyung and her colleagues repeatedly encouraged Bruna, and in the end, Bruna regained laughter.
In an interview after the match that day, Bruna said, “It’s true that I’ve had difficulties in the meantime,” and “I was embarrassed because the environment was different from Brazil, but I talked a lot with Kim Yeon-kyung and thought about whether there was a different solution with the coaches and overcame it.”
Kim Yeon-kyung also said that Bruna was under too much stress. “Actually, it has been less than a month since I practiced with Bruna. It would have been difficult to adapt because the team situation was bad.”
He added, “Before today’s game, I exchanged talks with Bruna saying,’It’s a lot of pressure, so please help me’,” he added.
When it comes to winning a valuable victory after losing 4 consecutive games, Kim Yeon-kyung said, “The players do well in their respective positions, so I get good results faster than I thought, and I feel good.” .
He said, “It seems like the story keeps coming to the feeling that we or our older sisters do something, but it doesn’t seem like that,” he said. “As the players tried to rethink what they had to do, they became a team with one heart and played.” .
“In fact, we thought it was difficult in reality, and we had the goal of’let’s get better little by little, get better little by little’, but we won faster than we thought,” he added. “I think it was the most touching victory this season.”
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