‘Last’ FC Seoul manager Park Jin-seop resigns after 9 months… Ahn Ik-soo as successor

FC Seoul general manager Kang Myung-won also resigned… Coach Ahn Ik-soo, baton at Seongnam on the 12th

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Young-ho = FC Seoul’s Park Jin-seop (44), the ‘lowest’ in the K-League 1, took responsibility for his poor performance and eventually resigned himself.

FC Seoul announced on the 6th that “Manager Park Jin-seop took responsibility for the team’s poor performance and announced that he would resign.”

As a result, Manager Park, who took the baton in Seoul last December, returned the baton after 9 months without finishing the season. Director Kang Myung-won, along with director Park, resigned voluntarily.

Park was recognized for his leadership by winning the K-League 2 championship and promotion to the first division in 2019 at Gwangju FC, which has been in charge since 2018. .

FC Seoul, which had led the team as an acting coach last year, recruited Park as a new manager and signed a three-year contract to make a comeback.

In the end, FC Seoul took out the change of general manager along with the commander as the last card to change the mood.

After losing 3-4 at home to Jeonbuk Hyundai the day before, Park met with fans in front of the stadium and bowed his head to apologize for the team’s poor performance, and that was the last meeting with the fans.

FC Seoul appointed Ahn Ik-soo (56), Sunmoon University coach, who used to be the club’s head coach and led the women’s soccer team, Busan I’Park, Seongnam FC, and the U-20 soccer team.

Coach Ahn led Sunmoon University and won the U-League Wangjung Championship in 2020 and the Spring University Federation and Fall Federation Championships in 2021.

Manager Ahn, who experienced the K-League victory as the head coach of FC Seoul in 2010, will take the helm from the game against Seongnam FC, the ‘pro-team’ on the 12th.

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