“I hope you enjoy the specials of twinkling.”.’
Seongnam FC, which is at the bottom of the K-League 2, has suffered a rare and shameful “town” this season. It has been in the throes of changing its head coach as many as three times a season. Choi Chul-woo was promoted to coach after Lee Ki-hyung stepped down due to poor performance in March at the beginning of the season, but he resigned on August 6 due to health reasons, and Kim Hae-woon, head of the power reinforcement office, took over as acting head coach. Seongnam’s club launched an open recruitment of new coaches while acting Kim took the helm, but failed due to “no appropriate person,” and on September 11, during the A-match break, Jeon Kyung-joon, former coach of South Jeolla Province, was appointed as its third head coach.
His performance couldn’t have been good due to the pain. He has had no win (four draws and seven losses) in 11 consecutive games, and he has hardly escaped from the bottom. The appointment of the coach Jeon is both a desperate need to not come in last place and a “winner” for the last time of the season. In this regard, there is a jinx that Seongnam fans and the club look forward to as if they are grabbing at straws. It is the “sparkling effect” of a managerial change. Seongnam has enjoyed the effect of improving its performance every time a manager is replaced.
When Choi Chul-woo first took the helm in March, he made his manager’s debut with a 3-0 complete victory over Pocheon in the first round of the Korea Cup. In the fourth round of the K League 2 (March 30), he won a 2-1 victory against the sensation Kimpo FC and won his K-League debut. Starting with the victory over Kimpo, Seongnam ranked eighth in the league standings with three wins, three draws and one loss, including its first consecutive win of the season.
As Choi lost four consecutive games in July, however, Choi dropped out, and acting coach Kim Hae-woon took the helm. Seongnam has transformed again since acting coach Kim served as bench coach. Although Choi had good attack-oriented soccer, he gained popularity when he shifted focus to defensive tactics, which forced him to become vulnerable due to membership structure. Although the game was a draw, he seemed to forget his sense of defeat as he remained undefeated in three consecutive matches since Kim took office. However, he lost 1-3 at the match against Busan right before the A-match break, ending his unbeaten streak, and former coach Jeon took the helm instead of acting coach Kim. 메이저놀이터
Just as his predecessors Choi and Kim did, it is time to have high expectations for “sparkling effect” again. As he is two points shorter than 12th-ranked Gyeongnam (25 points), he may be aiming to become the last player in just one month. Moreover, Jeon, who served as the technical chairman of the Korea Professional Football Association right before heading to Seongnam, has served as a coach for the national team by age and team A before making achievements by winning the K League 2’s first FA Cup and advancing to the Asian Champions League (ACL) when he was a coach for South Jeolla Province.
Coincidentally, former coach Choi Chul-woo once wrote the story of winning the FA Cup while assisting as a head coach in Jeonnam after being called by Jeon Kyung-joon. He is in charge of rebuilding the team in Seongnam, which was led by his junior.
Jeon’s opponent in Seongnam’s debut match (Sept. 22) is Suwon Samsung, which ranks sixth in the league. Suwon also has a long way to go as it has lost one draw and two in three recent matches, falling from third to sixth at one point. However, Suwon was the team that Seongnam used as a sacrifice when it secured its first consecutive win in this season with a gust of wind that destroyed rival teams’ powerhouses during its “Choi Chul-woo Lake.” Attention is focusing on whether Seongnam, which was properly retaliated by 0-3 against Suwon in its second match of this season, will succeed in rebounding from the effect of its new coach’s appointment.