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Director Hong Myung-bo, “I Hope Seol Young-woo Finishes the Year Well in Ulsan and Takes on New Challenges”


“Seol Young-woo, a player who grew up in Ulsan and benefited… Let’s talk to each other well.”

Hong Myung-bo, coach of professional football K-League 1 Ulsan HD, who discouraged national team fullback Seol Young-woo from advancing to Europe, reiterated his policy of allowing the transfer at the end of this season.

According to the Ulsan club, coach Hong Myung-bo said at a press conference held at Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium on the 14th, a day before the first leg of the round of 16 against Banforet Kofu (Japan) of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League (ACL) in the 2023-2024 season, that the team will play again this season.

Seol Young-woo announced that he will remain with the team. www.powerballsite.com

Coach Hong said, "Seol Young-woo is an important player for Ulsan and a player who has grown and benefited from Ulsan."

He added, "We will work together to create a situation where he can finish the next year well with the team, receive applause from everyone, including fans, and challenge himself to greater heights."

“It is,” he said.

He added, "When Seol Young-woo returned to the team (after finishing his national team schedule), we talked about our thoughts well.

We understand each other well."

At the press conference for the 2024 K-League Winter Training Camp on the 7th, Coach Hong emphasized that there is no alternative to transferring Seol Young-woo, and that it would be better for Seol Young-woo to spend this season in Ulsan and then go overseas. anotepad.com/notes/dhrryhi3

Seol Young-woo, a gold medalist at the Hangzhou Asian Games held last year and a starting fullback in the national team led by coach Jurgen Klinsmann, has publicly expressed his desire to go to Europe.

Seol Young-woo said that he received an offer to join a European team after the quarterfinals of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup against Australia on the 3rd, and said, "I am not young and there are few sideback players who play in Europe, so I want to become that player."

It is believed that the club that wanted Seol Young-woo was Serbian soccer club Crvena Zvezda.

Serbian media reported that the team's player recruitment manager went to Qatar, where the Asian Cup was held, to discuss his transfer.

Zvezda is also the team of national team midfielder Hwang In-beom.

Coach Hong, who is entering the 2024 season starting with this ACL game, said, "Some players were called up to the national team, so it was not a situation where everything could be trained and prepared perfectly," but pledged to win as "an important game that announces the start of the year." did.

In Ulsan, key players such as Kim Young-kwon, Cho Hyun-woo, and Seol Young-woo participated in the Asian Cup as members of the Klinsmann team.

Coach Hong said, "After the league and cup competitions ended in December last year, the players were called up to the national team without rest.

We decided to participate in many games in the Asian Cup." app.simplenote.com/p/gzZ9h5

He added, "We will check the condition and physical condition of the players until today's training.

“I will decide whether to participate or not,” he said.

He added, “The attitude of the players who returned from the national team in training and preparing for the game is very good.”