Chapter 200 – Maniac Transplant Meeting Case (2)
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Daye, who was staring into my eyes, muttered like a moan.
“You are serious.”
“Listen. There’s nothing special about being a club owner. Why is Kim Soo-ro the owner of the English soccer team?”
“Kim Soo-ro? Actor?”
He nodded his head in agreement.
In fact, Kim Su-ro is the owner of Chelsea Rovers in England’s 13th division.
“You are an active player. How do you manage the club?”
Daye raising her chin as if to say something, and Harin watching with her arms crossed, reminded me of the hearing.
But it’s not that simple.
“The club owner is the so-called owner. Like a company where the owner entrusts the management rights to a professional manager, there are many cases in which the club owner entrusts the management of the club to a board member such as the general manager or director. Even if I become the owner, I have to focus on my career as a player, so I am the club’s big direction… For example, it’s probably to the extent of putting importance on fostering young people or setting the direction of their upbringing. So I need your help.”
“Ask me to run the club instead?”
“Not quite like that. I have to find a manager who will be in charge of the management of the club… All I ask is that you become a bridge between me and the club. As you know, when the season starts, you can’t really look into the club because you’re busy. So I ask you, as the owner of the club, to look at how the club is running properly and how it is run, and reflect my will.”
In fact, it’s the right thing to say. Harin and Daye are outstanding talents. So-called talented woman.
Isn’t it too much of a waste for those two people to simply stick by my side?
I have to give them a chance to show off their abilities little by little.
… They’re both busy. Get out of the surveillance and meet some girls freely.
The two of them glanced at each other at my answer that flowed out as if they had prepared it.
Then, as if hitting the baton, Harin steps forward in place of Daye, who has been asking questions until now.
“What exactly does it mean to focus on fostering youth? As far as I know, I know that investing some money is not enough. There’s no way a talented youth would spring up like that.”
“Honestly, the most important thing in nurturing youth is talent. Investment? You don’t have to. As long as you have the talent. How could Cha Bum-kun have been able to perform like that by receiving proper soccer training at a proper training ground? Ahn Jung-hwan said he trained in a good environment. The bottom line is talent.”
Even in regions where soccer infrastructure is incomparably inferior to Korea, let alone Europe, excellent soccer players often appear.
For example, Africa or Central and South America.
Of course, there are places with good training facilities in that area as well. Like a youth team or soccer class run by a proper soccer club.
However, in most cases, players who play an active role in the European big leagues with only talent appear in a training ground that is poor and almost nonexistent.
Extremely speaking, Madagascar, Ceylon, Panama, Sri Lanka, countless islands in the Pacific… Would a big leaguer from such a region have received proper training during his youth?
“Of course, it is true that having an investment is advantageous. Talent is the best, but I don’t intend not to invest. But most importantly, in the end, it’s talent. What I want is not some kind of Clairefontaine.”
Clairefontaine is famous for its soccer academy in France.
This educational facility, which has produced countless legendary players from Thierry Henry to Kylian Mbappe, is even benchmarked by the Korea Football Association.
“I just take talented young guys in a different direction than the existing Korean players… It means educating in the direction of more challenging, adventurous and free play. This is not a matter of level, but a matter of direction.”
In Korea, there are few players who play adventurously.
This is what Europeans call ‘creative’ play.
Korean players’ play styles are not without flaws, but if all players have similar tendencies, it will be easier to deal with.
“You know? Could there be a case like Kim Min-jae, who played for KHNP in Gyeongju before moving to Jeonbuk Hyundai and became Korea’s representative defender?”
Kim Min-jae, who is considered one of the best center backs of all time in Korea, transferred to Jeonbuk Hyundai from Gyeongju Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, commonly known as Gyeongju KHNP, of the predecessor National League of K3.
Of course, there are various circumstances here, so I can’t simply say that I’m from the National League.
“What I mean is that I want to raise youth in a different direction than the existing Korean players. It’s good if it goes well and even the national team is produced, but if it doesn’t work, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Harin, who had been listening silently, opened her mouth only then.
“In summary, it means that we will run a club that focuses on fostering youth with operating expenses of 1 billion a year. So… It’s an expensive hobby. 10 billion… Well, that would be fine. Try it, once.”
‘It’s not a hobby.’
… I swallowed the word inside.
Anyway, I got permission, so that’s okay.
* * *
The return home was made amidst great cheers.
The myth of 2002, which was thought to be impossible to recreate within 100 years, the World Cup semifinals.
Of course, in the last game, the match for 3rd and 4th place, Spain literally lost my soul and lost 0:4, but isn’t it the World Cup semifinal?
No one criticized the national team only for the last game, even if FC Korea was in a hurry.
Rather, it was a problem because the crowd was so enthusiastic that Incheon International Airport was paralyzed.
“Ojije! Come on!!”
“Please look over here! It’s Yoon Hyuk! Yunhyeok, here, here, please!!”
“Kyaaaaa!! It’s Hong Min-joon!!”
I was warned even before I left the departure hall, but facing a real crowd feels different.
The ground vibrates as if an earthquake occurred at the tremendous cheers of the people who filled the departure hall without a single step.
“Wait a minute, please calm down! Hey, don’t push! Please keep the line!”
While the airport security guards who were building the wall managed to block the crowds, they quickly moved toward the prepared interview site.
The entire nation is watching through the camera, but I can’t run out of shape, but the security guards urged me to go, so I arrived at the interview site with a confused appearance, neither running nor walking.
The place, too, was full of people.
The only difference was that I was a journalist, not a regular person.
“Director Jije Oh! How do you feel about recreating the semifinal myth in 30 years!?”
“Player Taesik Choi! Please tell us how you feel standing shoulder to shoulder with Korean legends like Hong Myung-bo and Kim Min-jae, who are already on the list of all-time center backs in Korea!”
“Here, look here! Seol Yo-han, you showed tears in the last match, what is the reason!”
As if the calm wait was a lie, in an instant, shouts reminiscent of the Dottegi market erupted here and there.
Surrounded by dozens of reporters, the interview from the coach to the players except for one person is finished, and finally, the long-awaited sequence that everyone has been waiting for.
“Okay then! Now, finally, the protagonist of the semifinal myth! The new ace of the national team! We will have an interview with Hong Min-joon, who won the World Cup scorer!!”
As agreed in advance, after all the other people’s interviews are over, the microphone is finally handed over to me.
From the coach sitting on the far right, the microphone is handed over one by one in the order of coaching staff, captain, and squad.
Starting with the applause of the coach who passed the microphone for the first time, the applause that continued every time the microphone passed from hand to hand, when the microphone finally reached me, became applause from the coaching staff, the players, the reporters, and everyone in the conference room.
Big hum.
I’m ashamed of this.
“Uhhaha. Hong Min-jun, are you shy right now? Did your face turn red?”
“Hey, there are times when Hong Min-joon is embarrassed.”
People who laughed mischievously at my embarrassing appearance and clapped even louder.
No matter how thick the skin on my face is, this is a bit…
“Hello, this is Hong Min-joon.”
“Wowaaaaa!!”
As soon as I couldn’t stand it and grabbed the microphone and said hello, cheers poured out.
Big… It tastes like this This isn’t the popularity of a superstar.
『The return of the proud Taegeuk son!』
「On the 16th, the national soccer team, which recreated the World Cup semifinal legend, returned home through Incheon International Airport.
Originally aiming to advance to the round of 16, Jeho Jiho Ji started with his first game against Argentina and showed great performance, winning and winning and finally showing the miracle of reaching the semifinals.
Experts say that Korea was able to write a miracle as the tenacity of head coach Oh Ji-je, who was appointed to the national team early after being guaranteed a four-year term after the last World Cup, and the skill of senior players including captain Choi Tae-shik, as well as outstanding rookies such as Yoon Hyuk and Hwang Jun-su. Combination was chosen.
But above all, Hong Min-joon was the center that was able to recreate the semifinal myth.
Hong Min-jun, who appeared like a comet by winning the top scorer at the Sydney Olympics just two years ago, entered Camp Now based on his performance.
Hong Min-joon, who proved that he is the best talent of all time by winning the 2. Bundesliga Top Scorer, Bundesliga Top Scorer, and Europa League Top Scorer, finally became the top scorer by scoring 7 goals in the World Cup.
Excluding the 8 goals recorded by Brazil’s Ronaldo during the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, he was the most goals in the history of the 21st century World Cup and the first Asian World Cup scorer.
In an interview conducted after his return to Korea, Hong Min-joon said, “I saw Korea’s potential and limitations. If he makes up for his shortcomings, winning the World Cup is not a dream.” He did not hide his greed for winning the World Cup.
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As the transfer of Hong Min-jun, who stood tall as the World Cup scorer, became visible and interest in his next destination increased, after finishing the tournament, Hong Min-jun announced that he would take a break in Korea this month.”
“Well.”
The old man who was reading the article stubbornly twists his mouth and throws the newspaper onto the table.
“Okay. I just wanted to see you once.”
A pair of men and women sitting next to each other are captured at a glance by the eyes of an elderly gentleman with a heavy face that would have made a woman wake up in her youth.
What is in front of her eyes is the attractive face of the athlete who was making headlines in the newspaper the old man was reading until just now, and the old man’s only precious and precious daughter.
“Hong Min-joon. He said see me.”
Even though he is over 60 years old, he is still an old man with a reddish complexion, a strong athletic body, thick and distinct eyebrows and intense eyes.
Although he is a fool, he is the father of Oh Harin and the head of the GT Group, one of Korea’s top 10 conglomerates.
Oh Sang-jae, the head of the GT Group, was him.