‘Striker Legend’ Hwang Sun-hong is Now a ‘Gold Medal Coach’
Coach Hwang Seon-hong (55), a Korean soccer legend, soared once again as a leader by winning the gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
The Korean national team led by Coach Hwang defeated Japan 2-1 in the men's soccer final held on the 7th and won the gold medal.
Coach Hwang's outstanding leadership was also recognized as he won all competitions in the Asian Games.
Coach Hwang is a former national team striker who scored 50 goals in 103 international matches as a player. 바카라사이트
The 50 goals in international matches are the second most scored by a Korean male player, following former national team coach Cha Bum-geun (58 goals).
As soon as he made his A match debut in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup group stage match against Japan in December 1988, Coach Hwang was an undisputed starter for the national team, scoring his debut goal to lead the way to a 2-0 win.
I have done it. In particular, he is famous for playing a leading role in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup semifinals legend.
Coach Hwang scored the first goal in the first group match against Poland, leading Korea to its first win (2-0) in World Cup participation.
In 1998, when he was playing for Japan's Cerezo Osaka, he scored 24 goals in the season and became the top scorer in the J-League.
He bid farewell to Taegeuk Mark in a friendly match against Brazil in November 2002, and after ending his career as a player in February of the following year, he began his career as a coach. started walking.
Coach Hwang, who was coaching at Jeonnam Dragons, his last team as a player, debuted as a coach by taking charge of Busan I-Park in December 2007.
He also achieved success as a coach at Pohang Steelers, where he took charge from November 2010 to 2015.
In 2012, he won the Korea Football Association (FA) Cup for the first time in his career, and in 2013, he won both the K League 1 and the FA Cup, giving birth to modifiers such as 'Steel Taka' and 'Hwangseon Daewongun' with elaborate passing soccer without foreign players.
He created the best season of his career as a coach.
However, after taking charge of FC Seoul and returning as a professional coach, he had a difficult path.
He won his second K-League 1 title with Seoul in the 2016 season, but eventually resigned as the team ranked mid-tier in the 2017 season and fell to the bottom in the early part of the 2018 season.
At Yanbian Foode in China, where I was appointed at the end of 2018, I was unable to work properly because the team was disbanded.
After a period of hiatus, he took office as the first head coach of the Daejeon Hana Citizens of the K League 2, which was re-established as a corporate team in 2020.
However, the team, which was in urgent need of promotion, remained in the mid-tier even after mid-season, and was effectively dismissed without even completing a year.
The position of head coach of the U-23 national team, which he will take on from September 2021, was not an easy choice.
It is unusual for a coach who has already achieved success on the professional stage to coach the U-23 national team.
Coach Hwang reaffirmed his goal of becoming the 'A national team leader', which he stated upon his retirement as a player, and declared that he would be verified through the Asian Games and Olympics.
Although he put his leadership to the test, it was a thorny path until he won the gold medal.
The Asian Games were postponed for a year in the aftermath of COVID-19, and were criticized for being eliminated from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup in June last year with a 0-3 defeat in the quarterfinals against Japan.
In June of this year, when the postponed Asian Games were just around the corner, two away exhibition games against China were also in crisis.
They even lost 0-1 in the second game due to injuries to players.
There was no end to negative news and variables, such as the controversy over the final entry of Lee Sang-min (Seongnam), who was caught and disciplined for drunk driving, and Lee Kang-in (Paris Saint-Germain)'s injury and timing of joining.
Just before this competition, the Paris Olympic qualifiers were also starting and there was the hardship of having to run two teams of similar but different age groups at the same time.
In men's soccer at the Asian Games, the atmosphere in which winning a gold medal was taken for granted was also a considerable burden.
Still, Coach Hwang soared brilliantly, proving his leadership by winning the championship.
Throughout this tournament, Coach Hwang used various players to control the pace of the game.
In the quarterfinals against the difficult host country, China, they showed a practical side by excluding Lee Kang-in and Jung Woo-young (Stuttgart) from the starting lineup.
The players’ mental management also shone. When leaving the country, 'Pabuchimju' (破釜沈舟), meaning 'breaking the pot to cook rice and sinking the boat on the way back', meaning to hit the water line and fight to the death) or during the competition, "The best enemy is within us" (8th vs. China).
After the victory in the semifinals, he calmed down the players' minds by warning them to let down their guard.
Coach Hwang was scheduled to receive an evaluation from the Korea Football Association as to whether his contract would continue until the Paris Olympics due to the results of this Asian Games.
Having won this competition three times in a row, I was able to continue my journey to Paris.
After winning the game against Japan that day, Coach Hwang smiled brightly and said, "I am happy to give joy to the people," and "I want to enjoy today."