Son Academy's abusive language video will be released →"Isn't it a frustrating expression, intentional words and actions for abuse?" Explain

Jul 05, 2024

Son Academy's abusive language video will be released →'Isn't it a frustrating expression, intentional words and actions for abuse?' Explain
Director Son Woong-jung answering questions



It was reported that abusive language was found during the actual game in connection with the alleged child abuse case at the 'SON Soccer Academy'.

Yonhap News reported on the 5th that the video of Son Academy's youth players' game showed abusive language, shouting, and reprimand from coaches such as Son Woong-jung.

According to this, during the U-13 match in Fukuoka, Japan, earlier this year, when a player from Son Academy made a big break after attempting a mid-range shot, an abusive language came out of the bench saying, `Hey, hey ○○ hey, are you a bucket ○○? Did you go in to fill your head?Let's say " and another coach says "He's just filling his head now. Don't say it" and make a rude comment about "I told you to make it" Don't be so mean "If you don't want to do it, it's me and this ○○"Hey, this ○○"Hey, this is it. Come out if you're going to lose money."Will you just kick me? It also has a loud voice like, "Hey! Do you want to just kick it?"



Son Academy's abusive language video will be released →'Isn't it a frustrating expression, intentional words and actions for abuse?' Explain
Director Sohn Woong-jung who publishes an interview book
Regarding the video of the match, Son Academy said in a Yonhap News article, `At that time, the players participated in the official competition for the first time and participated in the 11-man event for the first time"As a result, the players were overly nervous, and the things that the coach and coaches emphasized every day (looking around, talking to each other frequently, delivering the ball with the feet of the defense, etc.) were not achieved at all."I explained the situation at the time. "For the coach and coach, it was a frustrating situation because the training for several years was not done at all in practice."This game was the coach's decision to hold the second Okinawa training camp, and now the players are slowly starting to show their usual training contents as they play the actual game. " he added. "Strict expressions come from the process of guiding players outside the stadium, and the expression was not refined because the instructions were delivered quickly in an urgent situation. "They are by no means intentional words and actions to emotionally abuse a specific child. "

The victim child (the complainant) was a basic training group in his second month of joining the team, so he played mainly in tactical training group players who had mastered basic skills for many years, so the child hardly played in the above game and was not shown in the video, he said, claiming that the video had nothing to do with the complainant's child.



Meanwhile, it is known that a number of abusive language and high-pitched voices have been confirmed in the recent video of the game. Sohn said, `The director acknowledged the harsh expressions made during games or training, and said he would reflect on the fact that he guided the children only in his own way without catching the standards set by the law and changes in the times.' `I would like to reiterate that he is actively cooperating with the investigation agency without distorting or hiding the facts.' Currently, director Son and others are under prosecution investigation for physically or emotionally abusing child A at Son Academy.

Amid the release of videos containing abusive language, shouting, and rebukes, heated controversy continues. Some parents of Son Academy issued a statement on the 4th, saying, "Some parents accompanying the Okinawa training camp in Japan and their children also had physical punishment. We needed a turning point to change the atmosphere. The people who have experienced the incident in person are using their own standards, turning the academy members into victims and harassing us as if a big crime had occurred inside the academy." I ask you to stop this." People who are civic groups who have never been to the playground before criticize the director for being violent, and the Sports Ethics Center forewarns that they will visit the academyHe criticized the children here by saying, "'Who on earth is human rights for and for whom is the investigation for when they say they are happy?'



The civic group countered that the parents' statement was an act of `secondary harm' toward the victim. Kim Hyun-soo, executive chairman of the Sports Citizens' Solidarity, said "Clearly, there was an act, and parents' act of defending the offense to maintain the team could lead to a secondary offense. From the victim's point of view, this position is the most distressing."



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