On October 16th, the 37th round of the 2022 K-League, Ulsan Hyundai reversed Kangwon FC 2-1 on the road, won the championship in an early round, ending the difficult "three consecutive", but also ending the "five consecutive" of Jeonbuk Hyundai.
Ulsan Hyundai, South Korea's "second of the millennium", has been runner-up in the K-League a total of 10 times in its history, and in the last three years, it was even overturned by Jeonbuk when the situation was favorable.
commander-in-chief
Hong Myung-bo made good on his promise when he took over Ulsan.
"It took us 17 years to win this championship, and I've been thinking all season long that we must not repeat that mistake!"
short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
Hong Myung-bo, a decorated captain and legendary defender for South Korea during his playing days.
He was 21 years old when he participated with South Korea in the 1990 Italian
International Cup
The team then went on to participate in the 1994 U.S.
International Cup
France, 1998
International Cup
and 2002 Korea-Japan
International Cup
The first South Korean and first Asian soccer player in the history of the sport to participate in four successive
International Cup
The players.
Hong Myung-po scores a goal
94 years
International Cup
Group stage against Germany, South Korea was once 0-3 down, after Hwang Sun-hong equalized, Hong Myung-bo faced Mateusz and blasted an international wave to tie the score at 2-3, and that goal Hong Myung-bo said was the most beautiful goal in his professional life.
Korea and Japan in '02
International Cup
Hong Myung-bo, as captain, led South Korea to create a spectacle at home, all the way to the quarterfinals, and he also won that
International Cup
The "Bronze Globe" award.
"It was all very dreamlike and very unimaginable, both before and after the game. A miracle happened, no one thought we could do all that. Even today, it still doesn't feel real. But we did prepare well for it and that result was not easy to come by."
Hong scored the winning penalty in the quarter-final against Spain in a penalty shootout.
"That was the most important goal of my life, I never thought I would have such a great moment in my life!"
International Cup
After that, Hong Myung-bo retired and quit the South Korea
the national team
Hong Mingfu, 2003
transfer to another club (professional sports)
美
national soccer team
The Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, Hong Mingfu and Japan's Hidetoshi Nakata were elected as the only two representatives from Asia in the list of "100 Greatest Players of FIFA Centennial Celebration", which was selected by Pele himself to commemorate the centennial of FIFA in the beginning of 2004.
In October 2004, at the age of 35, Hong Mingfu declared that
demobilize
He then transitioned into coaching, serving from 2005-2008 as the South Korean
the national team
and assistant coach of the National Olympic Team.
In 2009, Hong became a member of the South Korean U20 National Youth Team
commander-in-chief
, who led the team to the World Youth Championship's Round of 8; that same year, he was promoted to the Korea
national Olympic team
commander-in-chief
, led the team to the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and won the bronze medal.
During that period, Hong Myung-bo explored, promoted and nurtured a number of young players for South Korea, like Kim Young-gwon, Jang Hyun-soo and so on.
In 2012, Hong Myung-bo led South Korea
National Olympics wins London
the Olympics
male stepchildren
Bronze medal in the competition, equaling Japan's 1968 Mexico City
the Olympics
Asia created on
male stepchildren
Olympic Best Results.
In the final minutes of the bronze medal match against Japan, Hong sent in Kim Ki-hee, the only Korean player who had no previous experience of playing in the match, to ensure that all South Korean players were eligible for dismissal from military service.
The final whistle, Hong Mingfu and disciples clad in national flags tightly embraced together, the stadium iron man also could not help but shed tears of excitement.
His coaching livelihood reached its zenith.
resign from a post
Fortunes come with misfortunes.
In June 2013, Hong Myung-bo succeeded Choi Kang-hee as the South Korean
the national team
commander-in-chief
who signed a two-year deal to lead South Korea in the 2014 Brazilian
International Cup
and 2015
Asian cup (e.g. soccer)
Results Brazil
International Cup
On, South Korea 1 draw 2 losses in the group stage, miserable out of the game, triggered South Korea's domestic media and fans slammed, the demand for his dismissal of the voice is endless.
Despite poor results, South Korea
soccer league
Expressing his support for Hong Mingfu, "It's true that giving him only one year is too short, and the association has a duty to do so."
However, on July 10, 2014, Hong Mingfu suddenly held a conference to announce his resignation.
Hong Mingfu bowed and apologized
At the conference, Hong Mingfu's expression stiffened as he bowed deeply to the media in attendance before saying:
"In total, as a player and coach, I've been in the
the national team
Day after day for 24 years, the nation has given me a lot of encouragement for my lack of strength, and occasionally a stern prod, and today I am out of this seat, but I will continue to work hard."
talk about
International Cup
Hong Mingfu kept apologizing for his performance.
"I feel very suffocated panic, but also very painful, the national gave us a lot of expectations, but I only brought us despair, really sorry. 1 year time to experience a lot of losses and mistakes have been there, but also by the misunderstanding, I'm still immature, really sorry, sorry."
South Korean media analyzed the reason why Hong Myung-bo resigned from his position, in addition to the
International Cup
There are two other key factors in the poor upper results.
One, in
International Cup
During the preparation period, Hong Mingfu actually returned to the south of the city to busy himself with buying land for his family.
II.
International Cup
After the group was eliminated, Hong Mingfu actually took the whole team to drink flower wine.
Hong Mingfu takes his players for a drink
Hong Mingfu also responded to both:
For one, the land purchase was done on private time, and I sure as hell wasn't out doing it during practice, I wouldn't do something that mean.
Second, take the team dinner is to comfort the players immersed in the loss, about the young players, the loss suffered a great impact and pressure, but this practice is really not well thought out.
After that, Hong Mingfu took a break for more than 1 year.
get out of class
Hong Mingfu arrived in Hangzhou, China, at the end of 2015 to take over the reins at Greentown.
Song Weiping admires the Koreans' ability to nurture youngsters, while Hong Myung-bo says he loves the challenge.
"Greentown young players are many, I have strong experience about bringing young players, the two sides are attracted to each other, and our country channel is very big, to a completely different environment, it is also a great challenge, I love the challenge."
Hong Mingfu's expectations of Greentown are very high, he thought the team's young players have great potential, but many have always been sitting on the bench before, need time to come slowly, he set the team's policy is ---.
relegate
But Greentown was still relegated for the 2016 season
China Super League (soccer league)
They then won 8 games.
At the wrap-up meeting after the season was over, Hong Mingfu pep-talked everyone:
"Relegation is not the end of the international, everyone has to keep their heads up for the work and days ahead. I will reflect on it and expect everyone to think about it as well and turn relegation into a prestigious asset for the future of the team."
Despite relegation, Hong Mingfu did not step down, Song Weiping wanted to keep him to continue to cultivate young players, Hong Mingfu's coaching of young people does have a set, the players are very respected and recognized him.
More importantly, of course, there is the All-Conference in 2017.
In the off-season, Greentown sold Zhao Yuhao, Feng Gang and Cao Haiqing three starters, and promoted 10 U20 players into the first team, continued "Storm of Fancy".
After 10 rounds, Greentown 4 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses, only 14 points, ranked 10th, suffered two consecutive defeats, May 27, Greentown Salon officials announced Hong Mingfu dismissed.
Hong Myung-bo also posted his parting letter on a Korean website on the same day:
I decided to leave Hangzhou Greentown.
First and foremost, I'd like to say thank you to the fans and players who have supported me throughout this time.
It's been a long time coming for me.
Between the completion of winter training in January and February of this year, the
Sharon had asked me to be unconditionally in
new season
Started 10 players under the age of 20. They claim that nurturing young players is more important than the team's results.
Hangzhou Greentown's policy of cultivating young players is good, but I want to say that your method is wrong.
In order to fulfill the salon's policy, you require 4 to 5 young players to enter every game, regardless of whether their strength can be worthy of the main force, which affects the team's results and is appropriately detrimental to their growth.
Many of the players in the team are in good shape, but they can't play because of your demands. And those young players are forced to play, it's hard for me to convince myself as a coach.
The end result was that all the rivalries erupted against Qingdao.
The saddest thing is that I can't go out and do anything about it as a head coach.
Having won three straight and suffered two straight losses, the salon finally released me from my contract early, which honestly wasn't a reason for me to be completely convinced and accept it.
Of course, it doesn't mean much to either side to keep going, and I can't keep fulfilling it if the underlying issues aren't resolved
commander-in-chief
Duty of. Ultimately, after a final exchange with the salon, I made a difficult decision-to disengage.
I want to thank again those who have always cared about the fans of Greentown as well as the players who have always worked hard, I'll leave like this first, bless you all have a beautiful future.
1.5 years in
national soccer team
Ball parade, Hong Mingfu is very emotional:
中
national soccer team
There are big differences between soccer and the rest of the international scene, and if you're not in authority, you'll only be able to see the surface.
champions
In November, shortly after his dismissal, Hong Myung-bo became the South Korean
soccer league
Specialized members, which is second only to the
soccer league
The President's number two, and Han
national soccer team
Specific implementers of the development of the ball plan.
He did this for three years.
During his tenure, Hong Myung-bo has organized exchange activities on soccer culture between China and South Korea, and has been interested in Chinese
national soccer team
The development of youth soccer on the ball gives pertinent propositions.
On December 24, 2020, less than 1 week after Ulsan won that year's AFC Championship, the salon announced Hong Myung-bo as the new manager.
As soon as he took office, Hong Mingfu said:
"We have a very clear direction to win the 2021 league title."
Ulsan jumped ahead of Jeonbuk in the regular season phase of the K-League for the past two years, before dropping the ball two years in a row after entering the title contenders' bracket, taking two runner-up finishes in a row.
In the 2021 K-League regular season, Ulsan and Jeonbuk entered the Championship Division race with 64 points, and then Ulsan dropped the ball again.
In the direct confrontation with Jeonbuk, Ulsan was whistled dead by the opponent in the final time of injury time, and finally with a 2-point disadvantage again in the 2nd place, completing the "third consecutive Asia".
The result was so difficult for Ulsan that words like "loss" became a taboo within the team.
But that didn't knock out Hong Myung Bo and Ulsan.
Ulsan recruits and makes a comeback.
Hong Myung-po himself called in his favorite player Kim Young-gwon, brought in Yim Wonami from Gwangju FC, loaned Jun Amano from Yokohama Marinos, and got a new player from the
Shandong Taishan prefecture level city in Shandong
The loan of Leonardo was followed by the introduction of Hungarian international Martin Adam in the summer window.
Ulsan was strong all the way through this season, leading the way to the end of the regular season and entering the title race with a five-point advantage, and Ulsan didn't drop the ball again in the direct battle with Jeonbuk in the title race.
October 8, "modern derby", Jeonbuk advanced 1 goal, injury time Adam scored 2 goals, Ulsan reversed the shutout, Hong Myung-bo and the players fell into a frenzy, the scene of the Ulsan fans watching the game tears of excitement.
On the 16th, Ulsan reversed Gangwon FC 2-1 on the road to win the title 1 round earlier, winning the K-League title again after 17 years.
Ulsan celebrates after winning the title
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transfer to another club (professional sports)
The draw of the period was huge.
Yan Won scored 12 goals in the last league, the 1st in the team; Leonardo scored 11 goals, Ulsan didn't lose any of the competitions where he scored; Jun Amano scored 9 goals; Adam scored 9 goals; Kim Young Kwon became the center of the team's backline, Ulsan just conceded 31 goals in 37 competitions, the 1st less in the K-League.
"This time last year, we were in pain and frustrated, but we didn't abandon our expectations and I'm determined to get it done (win the title) one day."
"Even if I don't finish this year, I'm not going to throw in the towel; throwing in the towel is the easiest thing to do, and I'm sure I'll be able to do it the next year."
Hong won the 1992 K-League with Pohang Steelers; 2002 Korea-Japan
International Cup
Hong Myung-bo created the legend of the Final Four with South Korea;
London 2012
the Olympics
As a coach, Hong won the bronze medal with the South Korean national Olympics; in the 2022 K-League, Hong led Ulsan to the title after 17 years.
Hong Mingfu again experienced a "10-year cycle".
Hong Mingfu celebrates
Hong Mingfu, 53, laughed and said:
"I'd like to change the cycle to 1 year, 10 years (at a time), it's too long."
