In the first part, "Unshakable Comfort"... Why Yoo Byung Hoon's "Anyang Zombie" is scary
In the first part, "Unshakable Comfort"... Why Yoo Byung Hoon's "Anyang Zombie" is scary
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Coach Yoo Byung-hoon (48), who led FC Anyang to its first promotion to the K League 1 (first division) along with the victory of the K League 2 (second division) in the 2024 season, prepared for the first division stage with a challenger's posture from the day after the championship.
The first division of the team's leadership, which is even more nerve-wracking since the debut season of the coach, was ready to fight against the surging waves, knowing too well that "when a coach shakes, the team shakes."
Sports Korea met with coach Yoo Byung-hoon in Namhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, the second winter training site for the Anyang club's 2025 season, and heard about the process of preparing for the first part and the mindset as a head coach.
Anyang had a 0-0 draw with Bucheon FC in the 38th round of Hana Bank K League 2 2024 held at Bucheon Stadium in Gyeonggi Province on Nov. 2 last year. With the draw, Anyang scored 62 points and won the K League 2 title, beating Seoul E-Land (61 points even if the remaining two matches were won at the time). Under the automatic promotion qualification given to the K League 2 winners, the team achieved promotion to the K League 1 for the first time in its 11th season since its foundation in 2013. Coach Yoo Byung-hoon, who had been with Anyang for a long time as a coach but was the first professional coach to do something most important in the club's history in his debut season.
Anyang, the 2024 K League 2 champion, will open the K League 1 stage on the 16th starting with the Ulsan HD away match of the 2024 K League 1 champion. Now the opening game is within two weeks. Coach Yoo conveyed Jeon's achievements with humility but confidence.
"Currently, our team's tactical completeness is around 80 percent. We plan to elevate the team to the desired direction until the opening match. As the players have not a thick base of players, we are looking forward to seeing their strength from the match when the 11-member main lineup is formed. The team went through a process to deal with the 400, which was mainly used last season, in more detail during the first training camp in Thailand, and has also prepared a new type of 300. Rather than pushing ahead with a single tactic in K League 1, the team plans to select two appropriately depending on the situation and the opponent team's situation. Strikers with good command of defense such as wingback and Moda, who are strong in side attacks like Kim Dong-jin, are expected to show good performance in the 300 form. The first training session was held for a short period of three hundred, but the players' understanding of the three hundred was high and they created a solid form. "
Coach Yoo vowed to play "flower bud football" before the start of the 2024 season, and after that remark, the word "flower bud" was not omitted in the article related to coach Yoo, and the Anyang team's promotional team also used words related to "flowers" in the video content. That's how much it symbolizes him and has become a word that symbolizes promotion to the first division in Anyang. 토토사이트
"Zombie" is the key word of Anyang in 2025. The club's public relations team also announced that it would actively produce video content using the word "zombie" throughout the season. Coach Yoo closed his eyes as if he was very passionate about the news, but smiled with fun and confidence and expressed the direction of the coach himself and the team.