Coach Kim Ho-cheol, Korean Volleyball is in its Current State

Coach Kim Ho-cheol "Korean Volleyball is in its Current State... It's Difficult... We Need to get our Heads Together and Discuss this"

Coach Abondanza: “If we increase the number of foreign players, the competitiveness of domestic players will increase.”

Even at the media day announcing the start of the new professional volleyball season, there was no shortage of stories about the national team that won no medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games. 토토사이트

The Korean women's volleyball team, which made the semifinals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, continues to fall indefinitely after key players of the national team, including Kim Yeon-kyung, Kim Su-ji (Heungkuk Life Insurance), and Yang Hyo-jin (Hyundai Engineering & Construction), returned the national flag.

The Volleyball Nations League (VNL) has lost 27 games in a row so far this year, and the 2024 Paris Olympics preliminaries ended with a loss in all seven matches, preventing the team from advancing to the Olympics.

At the Hangzhou Asian Games, they suffered the humiliation of ‘no medal’ at the Asian Games for the second time in 17 years and history.

Kim Ho-cheol, the head coach of IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, who served as the men's national team coach for many years, expressed his thoughts without hesitation, as he was nicknamed "Ho-cheol."

When asked about the national team at the 2023-2024 V-League Women's Media Day held at the Cheongdam Rivera Hotel in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 12th, Coach Kim said bluntly, "I think it will be very difficult to recover in the current situation."

The Korea Volleyball Association announced that it would part ways with men's national team coach Lim Do-heon and women's national team coach Cesar Gonzalez after the Hangzhou Asian Games.

People inside and outside the volleyball world point out that it is difficult to solve the problems of the men's and women's national volleyball teams, which are currently in a slump, by just throwing out two coaches.

Coach Kim said, "I know it's a sensitive issue, but if I were to tell you my opinion, continued slump is expected unless the system issues are changed."

He added, "I think coaches should put their heads together and discuss specifically what to do for the future of Korean volleyball. “He suggested.

The operator of the national volleyball team is the Korea Volleyball Association, and the Korea Volleyball Federation, which runs the V-League, provides support to the national team behind the scenes.

Coach Kim suggested that coaches of professional clubs should not sit back and watch, but instead think together about the future of Korean volleyball.

Heungkuk Life Insurance coach Marcello Abondanza (Italy) also added his words for Korean volleyball.

Coach Abondanza said, "(Korean volleyball) has sufficient conditions to become a champion," but added, "In order to raise the level itself, increasing the number of foreign players is also a way.

If so, it will help increase the skills of domestic players."

Starting this season, the V-League will implement an Asian quota system that will bring in one more foreign player from Asia in addition to the existing one foreign player per team.

Some domestic players oppose the introduction of the Asian quota, but are unable to raise their voices loudly due to the cause of 'improving international competitiveness'.

Representative players from each club responded to the question, ‘Why should we watch the V-League and what can we show?’, and said that they would reward the team with fun games.

Park Jeong-ah (Pepper Savings Bank), who was the captain of the Hangzhou Asian Games volleyball team, said, "We have many new players and young players on our team, so we will be able to show an interesting side."

Yang Hyo-jin said, "Even last year, it was difficult to predict until the end of the season. Only in the V League.

He asked for interest by saying, “There is a charm of.”