Son Woong-jung, father of South Korean soccer star Son Heung-min and director of Son Soccer Academy, holds a e book signing occasion in Seoul on Jun. 26. (Yonhap)
Son Woong-jung, a soccer coach and father of Premier League star Son Heung-min, was ordered by a neighborhood court docket Friday to pay a fantastic over costs of abusing younger gamers at his soccer coaching heart.
The Chuncheon District Court docket in Chuncheon, some 75 kilometers northeast of Seoul, ordered Son Woong-jung, his son Son Heung-yun and one other coach at Son Soccer Academy to every pay 3 million received (US$2,220) in fantastic. All three had been additionally requested to finish 40 hours of kid abuse remedy applications.
Son and the 2 different defendants might attraction the choice and ask for a trial inside seven days.
The court docket’s determination took place two months after Chuncheon prosecutors summarily indicted the three coaches.
They had been accused of bodily and verbally abusing younger gamers on the senior Son’s namesake soccer coaching facility.
The mother and father of 1 participant reported Son and his employees to native police in March, and police forwarded the case to the prosecution the next month.
The mother and father claimed that their son sustained accidents to his thigh space that required two weeks of remedy after Son Heung-yun struck him with a nook flag throughout a coaching camp in Okinawa, Japan, in March.
The mother and father charged that Son Woong-jung hurled profanities at gamers for making errors throughout coaching periods on the identical Okinawa camp.
Son Woong-jung has countered that lots of the costs levied towards him and his employees aren’t true, and stated he has not carried out something that was not primarily based on love for the gamers on the academy. (Yonhap)
