"Right now, Korean basketball is not in Baekchukgandu, but down the cliff. If you want to come up from there, you can't reach it unless you're crazy about 狂 and 及. Even if you're as slow as 牛步萬, you have to prepare step by step. To this end, I will devote all my wisdom to the veteran, even though he is an old horse named Noma Ji (老 Ma Chi 智)."
Korean men's basketball team coach Ahn Jun-ho (aged 67) learned Chinese at a school in Seodang when he was young. When I asked him to tell me his commitment as the head of the Korean national team after his interview with Chinese characters, he was the head of Korean national team. 토토사이트 순위
Ahn applied for the men's national team coaching competition at the end of last year. When Ahn, who was paired with Seo Dong-cheol (55), a former professional coach, was finally chosen, critics said, "Is it a position where a national team coach can rescue a leader who has nowhere to go?"
In just three months, such voices were heard. Ahn boldly recruited newcomers such as Park Moo-bin (23) and Oh Jae-hyun (24) from SK. He also displayed an extraordinary attitude by appointing Ra Gun-ah (36), a naturalized player, as captain. Korea (ranked 51st) had a come-from-behind 71-85 loss to Australia (ranked 4th) in the first qualifying match of the FIBA Asian Cup on Feb. 22. However, the team had a 13-point lead at one point, showing a remarkable change. In the second round match held in Wonju on Saturday, it beat Thailand 96-62.
"I can see the hope of men's basketball revival," coach Ahn said to excited basketball players, stressing Woo Bo-man's consistency, saying, "I just took my first step." On the 7th, I met head coach Ahn at the Korea Basketball Association in Olympic Park in Seoul.
Learning Chinese when I was young. A lot of idioms
Q: You emphasized 'One Team Korea'.
A: "At the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, men's basketball ranked seventh with a dismal result. I heard that there was a conflict between Son Heung-min and Lee Kang-in in the national basketball team as well. Back then, our biggest goal was to have the national flag on our chest. Now that we have professional players and now we have star players getting wealth and honor, we will have less sense of responsibility and responsibility as a national team player. However, a player who represents a country should have moral dignity, responsibility, and spirit to sacrifice himself for the success of the national team."
Q: The team spirit is a bit abstract, but can you explain it in detail.
A: "It takes 40 minutes to play basketball, but there are always 10 players on the court. If you calculate simply, it takes four minutes for a player to touch the ball. For the remaining 36 minutes, the team's spirit is to think about what movements to make for the team and how to participate in the rebound. While playing defense, you have to check your Markman carefully, but you have to think about what kind of help defense you have. When attacking, you have to think about what kind of movements you have to make to make your teammates play more space and how to make your offense smooth."
Q: Isn't it impossible to force the team spirit.
A: "Of course. Humans seek their own interests. They don't like to go if there is no benefit, whether it is material or mental. When you go to a national team, you are inferior to what you are in your team and you are not motivated, which is why you are discouraged. Understanding the minds of the players, I said, "There is no guarantee that I will come back to the national team after 10 days of the convocation. Let's make wonderful memories that will last for a long time." I was emotional when I said, "I can't give you trophies but let's make a hot scene to make a page of my youth."
Q: What are the criteria for selecting players.
A: "No organization can function properly with a prestigious university graduate or a person with good qualifications. We need someone who can spread energy while doing bad things. That's why we recruited Park Moo-bin, Oh Jae-hyun and Han Hee-won for the first time. All the existing players are surprised. "I only recruited players who were good at attacking, but the coaching staff is different this time." It is to naturally develop team spirit. Basketball consists of five players on the court, but you cannot win unless all 12 players use up their energy."
Q: What is your favorite basketball color?
A: "Korea is almost the shortest team in international competitions. Instead of just lamenting how short we are, we need to be able to play full court heavy-handed defense for 40 minutes using fast steps, which is our strength. We need to turn the court upside down with fast attack deployment and detailed tissue play. When the buzzer rings, we all need to run so fast that we all fall down. We will prepare more and think hard to overcome our short stature and to equip ourselves with Korean-style basketball."
Ahn started basketball when he was a freshman in high school. He grew up as a member of the Korean national team through hard work and gritty play, and became a winner of the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi. He advanced to the playoffs for the seventh consecutive year when he was the coach of Samsung, and won the championship three times at the championship game. At an age when he was 60, he studied sports education at Korea National University and was a Ph.D. student at Kyunghee University, his alma mater.
"It's important to consider the naturalized player carefully"
Q: What is the most important virtue of a leader.
A: "It's all about trust. Players throw themselves when they believe that 'the coach is trying to help me and grow.' No matter how important a game was, he didn't even look at the injured player. Just saying 'are you doing well in rehabilitation' can delay recovery due to stress. The trainer had to report that 'I'm 100 percent ready to play' before he was called in. Even if a player wins a game due to 'painful fighting spirit', if a player suffers from two to three years of aftereffects, that's a decision that a coach should not make."
Q: What is the big change in basketball recently.
A: "Basketball has become like a multinational corporation. One entry in the FIBA competition will be allowed to use naturalized players. If basketball is to move from the center of the U.S. to the world, it needs to be leveled up. In that sense, it is important to give careful consideration to naturalized players.