Kim Hak-beom (61), the coach of the Olympic soccer team, who prepares for the Tokyo Olympics, stood at the end of the first convocation training in the new year and checked the training performance and scored 60 to 70 points by himself.
With the Tokyo Olympics being postponed for one year to July of this year, Kim Hak-beom-ho convened in Gangneung on the 11th of last month and began his first training in 2021.
Since then, on the 19th of last month, he moved to Seogwipo and continued to harden.
During training in Seogwipo, the pro teams Pohang Steelers (3-1 wins), Seongnam FC (4-0 wins), and Suwon FC (2-1 wins) and practice games all won.
On the 2nd, the national team will be disbanded after a training match with Hana Citizen in Daejeon on the 2nd.
On the 1st, coach Kim Hak-beom met with reporters before conducting the national team training at the Gangchang Hak Park Stadium in Seogwipo, Jeju, and said, “We are intensively checking what we want.
“The key is how many players follow.”
He said, “It’s a process of matching the degree of completion,” and “It’s still inadequate.
I want to give it about 60 to 70 points.
It is necessary to improve understanding,” he added.
He said the results of the practice match did not mean much.
The national team won 2-1 in the closed practice match against Suwon FC on the 30th of last month, but it is known that the content of the game was not satisfactory.
In response, coach Kim said, “I looked at the players’ condition rather than the results and contents.”
Coach Kim’s gaze is early on in Tokyo, that is, on the stage of the Olympic Games.
Coach Kim said, “I gave the homework to find a solution for myself when I was heavy because I had physical training between practice games, but I wasn’t good at it.”
Deliberately ahead of the game, I did intense physical training,” he explained.
“When I play tight tournaments, I sometimes feel unwell.
In that case, you have to match yourself and improve your performance,” he added. “We have to overcome it as well as we did in the Asian Games and AFC (Asian Football Federation) U-23 (under 23) championships.”
In the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games and the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship, where coach Kim took the baton, all of Korea reached the top of the tournament.
Coach Kim said, “In a tournament, if one game goes wrong, it’s over.
If you don’t say you’re not feeling well, you’re immediately eliminated,” he said. “So I made a schedule like that, but the players were struggling. Still, you have to overcome it.”
Coach Kim also gives homework to the players who will return to their team on the 2nd.
Director Kim said, “You have to take care of necessary parts such as self-management,” and “It is important to play in the team,” and ordered an activity in the team.
26 players from the K-League and Japan’s J-League participated in this training.
Coach Kim said, “It is difficult to say specifically, but there are players that stand out.”
However, it was soon said that it was the “watching stage” and said, “(This call is the last of the domestic players check), but it is not the last.
There are times when players are good and sometimes they are bad.
Some players hit late and come up.
I will continue to watch these players,” inducing endless competition.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed for one year due to the pandemic of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), but it is not clear whether it will be held properly this year.
It is a topic that cannot but be bothered by athletes and leaders preparing for the Olympics.
Director Kim said, “There is nothing we can do with our own strength.”
All teams are in the same conditions.”
/yunhap news