[골닷컴] Reporter Kang Dong-hoon = The Football Coaches Association issued a statement calling for the resignation of Korea Football Association President Chung Mong-gyu. As Korean football faces an unprecedented crisis, football coaches have repeatedly criticized the root causes of the disasters such as the hasty administration of Korea Football Association President Chung Mong-gyu and short-term measures aimed at avoiding the crisis, prompting him to resign.
The Football Coaches Association said in a press release on the 7th, “Football coaches agree that current Korean football is in an unprecedented crisis, and the root causes of these repeated disasters are the hasty administration of the president and the executive branch Korean football. Socialization and the short-term efforts to avoid the crisis only “We made it clear that it was in the prescription,” he said.
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He continued, “Football coaches condemn the irresponsible attitude of the Korea Football Association, which only focuses on the performance of the national team while ignoring medium to long-term development plans, and as a result transfers responsibility that the team should shoulder executive branch, including the president, to a few leaders As shown in the attachment, we are calling for the resignation of Chairman Chung “We are issuing a statement calling for this,” he added.
Below is a statement from the Football Coaches Association.
Korean men’s football failed to advance to the finals of the Olympic Games for the 10th time in a row. It is 40 years since the 1984 Los Angeles (LA) Games. This was not an accidental outcome, but a predicted disaster.
Football coaches have been concerned about this result for a long time and have repeatedly suggested to the association that it reflects the voices of the field. The media has already poured out considerable warnings about the arbitrary selection and control of the national team coach, but Korea Football Association Chairman Chung Mong-gyu and the executive branch have ignored these concerns every time.
The Korean Olympic team, which aims to take part in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, took part in the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) U-23 Championship, the last real test held a month before the Olympic qualifiers, but coach Hwang Sun-hong, who was the head coach of the Olympic team, was present.
Although this has been conveyed to the executive branch the information that a number of football coaches and experts felt in the field that ‘the level of the participating teams from South East Asia and other Asian countries has’ to level up’, Chairman Chung Mong-gyu ignored this when Klinsmann’s nationalist. The team faced public criticism at the time. In order to do this, they forced the coach of the Olympic team to temporarily lead the A-national team. As feared, the result of this lack of complacency in the preparation process led to a disaster never seen before in the history of Korean football.
The regime of Korea Football Association President Chung Mong-gyu, who took office in 2013, destroyed the stature and pride of Korean football, which had been carefully built by its elders and youth, in during his tenure in office.
Chairman Chung praises the achievements of some national teams as his own honor and achievements, but all Korean people and football coaches know that he has been ignoring and ignoring the fundamental issues of Korean football which n really important and urgent.
After announcing an unreasonable decision to pardon football players in 2023, he canceled and apologized, sacked coach Klinsmann after the A-national team was completely defeated by Jordan in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup in 2024, and the failure to progress to the Olympic Games for the first time in 40 years It is now recognized as common sense that the ongoing mistakes and hasty leadership of the executive branch of the society have come to an end.
In particular, the pardon of football players received final approval from the president, but as public criticism mounted, only bad football players were moved, and only young football players at the time were forced to resign.
In addition, during the selection process, Klinsmann himself admitted in an interview that he became the coach of the national team only because of his personal relationship with Chairman Chung, not through the association system. Moreover, it was a well-known fact that the foreign coach did not even watch the K-League and signed a contract to stay at home in the United States and work negligently, and it was eventually printed as the most incompetent coach ever due to his inability to control internal conflict within the players.
All our football leaders feel a deep sense of suspicion towards Chairman Chung Mong-gyu, who blames the leaders for the discontent of football fans who were heartbroken over the failure of Korean football to participate in the Olympics and who hide without even apologizing.
After taking office in 2013, players and leaders in the field demanded change and reform with various voices, but it was not accepted instead, the football base has further diminished and the pain is on the field increases.
Now, all Korean football leaders can no longer stand aside and watch the leadership of the football association, which has only achieved results and fruits by relying entirely on the performance of the national team. A representative example is the strange promise made during his time as president, such as the ‘compulsory participation system for professional teams for players under the age of 21’.
Although student athletes are registered with professional teams, they cannot play properly due to a significant difference in skills and physical strength of older players, so this system, which guarantees playing time for players under the age of 23, is opposed until even by professional teams. In other words, the system of ‘guaranteed participation in a game’ on the most skilled professional platform, regardless of skill level, simply because someone is ‘under 21’ is a system that eliminates sweat and effort noble of the present. professional players, and there is strong opposition from the field. Also, there is no such system anywhere in the world.
Furthermore, this system depletes the base of academy football players and destroys amateur football, the foundation of professional football. For this reason, field football coaches and experts cite the ‘compulsory participation system for players under the age of 21’, enforced by current President Chung Mong-gyu, as a representative example of regression the development of Korean football.
Meanwhile, before Chairman Chung Mong-gyu took office, this system was not implemented during the London 2012 Olympic Games qualifiers where the team won a bronze medal. It is significant that players under the age of 23 at the time were fiercely competing for the starting position on the basis of their skills against prominent older professional players who were not required to play for their clubs.
In addition, the promotion system, which is Chairman Jeong’s promise, lacks a realistic foundation, leading to the phenomenon of some K-4 teams almost giving up promotion to K-3 because they cannot meet the budget and the standards for promotion.
The reason for this is the hasty administration of the current administration, which only focuses on the performance of the national team without taking care of the underdeveloped football base.
Therefore, our football coach demands that Chairman Chung Mong-gyu take responsibility for this whole situation and step down immediately.
All of us Korean football leaders also appeal to some football players who serve in the executive branch of the Korea Football Association. The executive branch of the association, which should be led by football players, has been a position where senior football players have served and devoted themselves. So, he was continuing the great tradition of taking responsibility for wrong results and giving up. However, no one in this executive branch is taking responsibility for the historic disaster that happened for the first time in 40 years.
Our football coaches are angry with the executive branch of the Korean Football Association, which ignores the serious and fierce voices from the field for the development of Korean football. We also call for awareness of the selfish behavior of some football players who only focus on their situation and wait silently for the direct words they should say about their beloved younger football players.
The status of Korean football must be established by our own football players. Any further neglect will only set Korean football back decades again.
All members of the Korea Football Coaches Association declare that only the unity and participation of our footballers will be the new hope for Korean football in the future, and they will dedicate themselves to the development of Korean football with respect and a love for senior and junior footballers etched in their hearts.
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