Chungnam Asan FC, which meets Daegu FC in the 2024 Professional Football K-League Promotion Playoff (PO), is actually an unfamiliar team to many soccer fans. Chungnam Asan, which participated in the K-League 2 since 2020 and ranked 6th in 2022, has risen to the promotion PO, drawing attention late on the past report of the Technical Research Group (TSG) under the Korea Professional Football Federation Technical Committee.
TSG selected Asan in South Chungcheong Province as its monthly best team in September. “Asan is agonizing over the form of attack called ‘back 4’ and destruction of position,” TSG said. “Asan in South Chungcheong Province plays aggressive soccer by strengthening the organic linkage play between midfielder and defense team by banking on its inverted wingback.” It is symbolic in many ways that TSG highlighted as the ‘monthly best player’ at that time was Cesinha, the center of Daegu’s counterattack soccer.
TSG analyzes K-League games and publishes technical reports. It is also in charge of selecting best-leven and most valuable player (MVP) weekly and monthly. It is a place to advise for K-League development by supporting analysis of Asian Champions League counterparts and notable European teams. When this reporter met Kim Ho-young at the soccer center in Jongno-gu, Seoul on Tuesday, he picked Ulsan HD, the winner of K-League 1, Gangwon FC (2nd), and Gwangju FC (9th) as the most impressive teams this year. After playing for Seongnam Ilhwa (currently Seongnam FC) and Jeonbuk Hyundai, Kim served as coach of Gangwon and Gwangju, and joined the association’s technical committee in 2022.
“Ulsan was able to achieve the championship while maintaining the team’s color and tactical completeness despite the manager’s change,” Kim said. “The development of youth, recruitment and management of players should be carried out organically,” he said, adding, “The system’s operation has led to the grades.” 스포츠토토
Under Kim Pan-gon, the team that TSG is paying attention to, Ulsan has strong forward pressure. Notably, the team penetrates into the most dangerous areas by utilizing Ko’s mobility and cracks the opponent team’s defense. As for Kangwon, Yoon Jeong-hwan has been highly praised for making good use of players’ strengths, producing multiple multiplayer games including Lee Ki-hyuk, Lee Yoo-hyun, and Hwang Moon-ki. Gwangju has achieved considerable results beyond bad conditions such as thin players and ACL players.
Kim, who praised Yang Min-hyuk (18), who Yoon discovered, as the biggest achievement of the K-League this year, without hesitation picked Jin Tae-ho (Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors) who is the same age as him next year. “Jin Tae-ho is exceptionally capable of repression and has a really fast instantaneous movement. He is highly intelligent in soccer and has excellent technology,” he said.