Since 2001, when the name was changed to KIA, former coaches Beom-Hyun Cho and Ki-Tae Kim have led the team to victory.
Beom-ho Lee, the new KIA manager who was promoted from batting coach to manager, meets with the team.
Coach Beom-ho Lee, who was appointed as the 11th coach of the professional baseball KIA Tigers, is greeting the players after announcing the appointment of the club's coach at the spring camp in Canberra, Australia on the 13th.Coach Lee worked hard with the players as the first team hitting coach until the day before.
The choice of the KIA Tigers, a professional baseball team that had to select a new manager after being struck by lightning out of nowhere, focuses on innovation and young leadership. 스포츠 토토사이트
On the 13th, the KIA club appointed hitting coach Lee Beom-ho, whom it had fostered as a promising leader, as its 11th manager and entrusted him with the great responsibility of repairing and rebuilding the team.
Whether they wanted it or not, KIA also set a milestone in the KBO League by appointing the first head coach born in the 1980s.
The KIA team fired former coach Kim Jong-guk on the 29th of last month after being investigated by the prosecution on charges of breach of trust through improper solicitation, and searched for a successor for 15 days.
After carefully vetting nearly 10 candidates, both internally and externally, we took the lead early on by promoting Coach Lee to manager, and received approval from the parent company, Hyundai-Kia Motors Group, on the 13th.
During the selection process, the KIA club virtually excluded personnel from certain universities that did not have favorable public opinion from fans.
Additionally, franchise stars from the Tigers, including Haitai and KIA, were passed over and coach Lee Beom-ho was selected as the new captain.
KIA recruited coach Lee, who had a strong Hanwha Eagles team, in 2011 and developed him into a tiger for nine years.
He treated Coach Lee with respect, as if he were a star who started his career with the Tigers from the beginning, and Coach Lee also always expressed his gratitude for the club's utmost sincerity.
As Coach Lee ended his career as a player in 2019, the KIA club has been steadily evaluating Coach Lee's qualities by steadily training him as a scout in 2020, as a Futures (second-team coach) in 2021, and as a first-team hitting coach in 2022-2023. .
KIA's new head coach, Lee Beom-ho
The Tigers, who participated in the KBO League as the original team in 1982, have only had 10 head coaches in their history.
Thanks to former coach Kim Eung-yong, who won the Korean Series nine times during his 18-year reign from 1983 to 2000, the Tigers established themselves as the most prestigious team in the KBO League.
However, the manager of the Tigers, who changed their name to KIA in 2001 after former manager Kim left for the Samsung Lions, was no different from drinking from a poisoned chalice.
Past Tigers franchise stars including Kim Seong-han (2001-2004, 3rd generation), Seo Jeong-hwan (2006-2007, 5th generation), Sun Dong-yeol (2012-2014, 7th generation), and Kim Jong-guk (2022-2023, 10th generation). One after another, they sat at the head coach of KIA, but they were unable to satisfy their desire to win the Korean Series and stepped down without completing the contract period.
On the contrary, the coaches who won the 10th and 11th championships in Tigers history were the 6th coach Beom-hyun Cho and the 8th coach Ki-tae Kim, who were not former Tigers players.
Former coach Kim's hometown is Gwangju, the hometown of the Tigers, but he never played for the Tigers.
Former coach Cho won the Korean Series championship in 2009 and former coach Kim won the Korean Series in 2017.
The story of the team winning the Korean Series nine times under former coach Kim Eung-yong, who boasted strong charisma, with players with strong personalities coming together as one, is nothing short of a myth.
As such, the color of the purebloods from the Tigers has become darker.
However, when former manager Kim Jong-kook stepped down due to a scandal involving bribes received from sponsors, voices began to grow that the former Tigers leader should be excluded from the managerial candidates this time. 슬롯사이트