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| Myung-bo Hong, executive director of the Korea Football Association, makes a comeback on the scene as the command tower. © News1 |
Hong Myung-bo, 51, the executive director of the Korea Football Association, who is known as a legend and eternal captain who left a shining footprint in Korean football history, is making a comeback as a leader.
Ulsan Hyundai announced on the 24th that “Director Hong Myung-bo will be elected as the 11th coach of the team.”
In November 2017, coach Hong Myung-bo, who was selected as the executive director of the Korean Football Association and helped Chairman Chung Mong-gyu as an administrator for more than three years, started again as a leader. It was May 2017 that dropped the baton of Hangzhou Lucheng in China, so this is the first time that Hong is leading the K-League club with 3 years and 7 months of return.
Hong Myung-bo, who is regarded as the best defender in the history of Korean football, has also succeeded as a leader. After retiring, he began his career as a coach for the national team in 2005, and began his career as a coach for the national team by age. The achievements were clear. At the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt, he finished in the quarterfinals, and at the 2012 London Olympics, he won the first bronze medal in Korean soccer history.
Ahead of the 2014 Brazil World Cup, Jaui Van Ta’s anti-national team climbed to the command tower and, as a result, saw the bitter taste of failure, and then suffered a big measles, but there were twists and turns in which coach Choi Kang-hee played the final qualifier as a firefighter after starting the World Cup qualifier with manager Cho Kwang-rae.
At the time, the wound was quite large, but still, Hong Myung-bo was the most loved throughout the history of Korean football and was one of the most successful players and leaders. It is also a valuable asset of Korean football that cannot be criticized for failing once.
So, when I was appointed executive director of the Football Association in November 2017, the reaction was a lot of surprise. At the time, the public opinion toward the Football Association was not very good, so I applauded the choice of jumping into fire, but at the same time, a voice was heard saying,’Why, why now?’
At that time, he said, “If you start in a good situation, the light can shine easily. However, avoiding difficult situations, running away because of worries, that is not an important point in the standard of choice I have made so far,” he said. He has expressed his determination to go to This is a cross-section of Hong Myung-bo’s style.
In addition, there were voices that were regretful whether it was too soon to break the leader’s path. But it wasn’t a period. Hong Myung-bo, a natural footballer, always had the field and the field. Director Hong’s aide once pointed out, “(while working as a managing director), of course, you had an idea about the director. But this is what you have to do now (the association’s executive director), so you did your best without looking away.”
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| Director Hong Myung-bo, who was always in mind to return to the leader even though he was an administrator. Now, we are taking on a new challenge in Ulsan. © News1 |
In fact, in the field, Love Call came to me strongly at this time last year. He tried to recruit Hong Myung-bo as manager at the J-League revenge club in Japan, where he had a glamorous time when he was active. However, he declined, saying, “It’s not a good idea to leave the association when I’m serving as the managing director, and my job is not over.” And the second reason is that there was an idea that’someday in the K League’.
One day, in a private seat, manager Hong Myung-bo said, “I have grown up through the K-League, and because there was a K-League, I am what I am today.” (Repayment) I think I should do it,” he said. That time has come.
In fact, through the Ulsan club, Hong said, “I experienced everything that the national team, age group, overseas league manager, and even an administrator could experience, but I felt uncomfortable in one side of my mind as if I had not done my homework. After explaining the reason for making a comeback, he said, “I am grateful for being able to contribute as a manager in the K-League and that the team is Ulsan, which leads the K-League.”
A new challenge for Hong Myung-bo, a footballer who doesn’t like the easy way, has begun again. It would have been a difficult decision and I had to fight a lot of difficulties myself, but the K-League as a whole was poor.