Head of the Korea Soccer Affiliation (KFA) Chung Mong-gyu, entrance, speaks throughout a gathering on the Nationwide Meeting in Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul, Sept. 24. Yonhap
Chung Mong-gyu, head of the Korea Soccer Affiliation (KFA), denied Tuesday that he and his group had sought to cowl up any info concerning their hiring of the boys’s nationwide staff head coach Hong Myung-bo.
Chung addressed the controversial appointment in a written assertion, launched earlier than talking in entrance of the Nationwide Meeting’s Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism Committee. Chung was summoned as a witness for the committee’s questioning session.
Chung and the KFA have been underneath appreciable warmth since hiring Hong Myung-bo as the brand new head coach of the boys’s squad in July. Specifically, the KFA has been criticized for not adhering to a correct vetting course of when bringing Hong aboard, with Chung suspected of favoring Hong over different candidates.
“After we didn’t disclose each element of the negotiating course of and didn’t supply explanations, it wasn’t as a result of we had been attempting to plot any conspiracy or cowl up the reality,” Chung mentioned. “And we had been completely not attempting to pick out a selected individual via an unfair course of.”
Chung additionally defined that he needed to guard the privateness of candidates whose talks with the KFA fell via or who had been faraway from consideration in numerous phases.
“Throughout my time as president of the KFA, I’ve by no means chosen a nationwide staff head coach towards the advice of the Nationwide Groups Committee or our Technical Committee,” Chung added, referring to our bodies in control of the teaching hiring course of. “I’ve supplied procedural recommendation, however I’ve by no means informed anybody what to do with a selected candidate.”
On the names of various candidates being leaked to the media, Chung mentioned: “One thing like that ought to by no means be repeated. I feel this course of taught us a lesson that we should not be choosing our nationwide soccer head coach this fashion.
“In comparison with international locations in Europe and South America, South Korea stays on the periphery of the worldwide soccer market,” Chung mentioned. “Sadly, our market is not sufficiently big to pick out a coach that might fulfill our followers every time we wish.
“Finally, I personally really feel sorry for coach Hong Myung-bo for having gone via such a difficult course of,” Chung added.
All through the questioning session, Chung repeatedly claimed he did not suppose the KFA had damaged any guidelines in hiring Hong, whereas additionally denying rumors that he had most popular one explicit candidate over others.
Democratic Social gathering Rep. Lim O-kyeong mentioned she had heard Chung most popular a overseas coach, whereas others had mentioned Chung needed Hong from the start.
“Each of these claims are usually not true,” Chung mentioned. “In social media, when folks write, ‘Chung Mong-gyu thinks this and that,’ it attracts tens of hundreds of views. So I feel some folks make up issues that are not even on my thoughts, they usually find yourself being pretend information within the media.”
Chung revealed that he was as soon as requested by Chung Hae-sung, who was initially main the hiring course of as head of the Nationwide Groups Committee, whether or not the president particularly needed a overseas coach.
“I informed him that the committee members ought to focus on important parts for our nationwide staff and select the individual that they suppose is one of the best match, whether or not he’s a foreigner or a Korean native,” the KFA chief added.
Requested by Folks Energy Social gathering Rep. Kim Seung-su if he felt Hong would have the ability to present his management given the contentious circumstances round his hiring, Chung Mong-gyu mentioned it was “too early to inform.”
“It’s fairly inappropriate for the method of hiring a coach to be mentioned so overtly. Sooner or later, whether or not we rent one other Korean coach or usher in a overseas coach, I consider disclosing particulars of each candidate shouldn’t be a fascinating observe,” Chung mentioned. “If we have made errors alongside the best way, we are going to attempt to deal with them sooner or later.” (Yonhap)
