The Power of Superior Genes? ...The Soccer Family of "Boogeonjeon" is on the rise
The Power of Superior Genes? ...The Soccer Family of "Boogeonjeon" is on the rise
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Will soccer's talent be passed down to him? Since the history of Korean professional football (launched in 1983) has been over 40 years, various stories are being told. The most notable is the story of the match between the two teams.
Though it is difficult to play together as a player like LeBron James and Bronny James of the Los Angeles Lakers, the number of "leader father" and "player son" appear on the K-League stage is gradually increasing. Representative "父" are Gyeongnam FC coach Lee Eul-yong and Pohang Steelers player Lee Tae-seok.
Lee Eul-yong, a member of the semi-finals at the 2002 World Cup, took the helm of the K League 2 Gyeongnam FC ahead of this season. Although he experienced as a professional head coach as FC Seoul's interim head coach in 2018, he was short-lived at the time, and it is virtually his first time in the K League as an official head coach.
"I think I can understand why they call K-League 2 'a war ground' or 'hellish'. All the teams and all the players play desperately," Lee said. "There is always a small difference between joy and sorrow because no team is especially inferior. I can't let my guard down in any games," he said, confessing that he is playing every game under tension.
Lee Tae-seok, born in 2002, when Lee wrote the World Cup semi-final myth, has quite a lot of K-League experience compared to his first-time head coach's father. Lee Tae-seok, who made his professional debut with FC Seoul in 2021, has been playing as a key player since changing his uniform to Pohang during the 2024 season.
His left foot, which resembles his father, is a powerful weapon, and he is gradually showing his presence in the national soccer team. Lee Tae-seok started as a fullback on the left side of Hong Myung-bo in both the two consecutive games against Oman and Jordan in March and was praised as "a harvest he dug out with regret for two draws."
Lee Ho-jae, a tall (192 centimeters) striker who plays for the Pohang Steelers along with Lee, is also a second-generation soccer player. Lee Ho-jae's father, who is tying for second in scoring after Daejeon's Joo Min-gyu (six goals) by scoring four goals in eight matches this season, is Lee Ki-hyung, former coach of Seongnam who was famous as a "Cannon shooter."
Coach Lee Ki-hyung, who joined Suwon Samsung as a founding member in 1996, was a leading player in Suwon's heyday and a side defender who played an outstanding role with the national flag such as the Atlanta Olympics.
After retirement, Lee became the coach of FC Seoul and served as the acting coach of Incheon United and Busan I'Park before serving as the head coach of Seongnam FC in the 2023-2024 season. In 2023, Lee's first season, an interesting "rich competition" was also held.
In May of that year, Pohang, a K-League 1 club where his son Lee Ho-jae plays, and Seongnam of K-League 2, where his father Lee Ki-hyung plays, met, and Pohang won 3-0 completely. It was Lee Ho-jae who scored multiple goals that led Pohang to victory at that time. Lee Ho-jae is considered to have excellent kick power even though he is tall, but there are quite a few soccer players who think of his father.
This year, there will also be a very special picture of his son playing as a player on the team where his father is the head of the team. This is the story of Shin Tae-yong, the former coach of the Indonesian national soccer team, who already has various records in the K-League. 메이저사이트
Having been quiet for a while after the Indonesian Football Association's unconventional "decision to disband" earlier this year, he joined the executive team of the fourth president of the Korea Football Association, Chung Mong-kyu, as vice chairman and began his activities earlier this month, and was recently appointed as the "non-executive general manager" of his former Seongnam FC.