Chung Mong-gyu, chairman of KFA, wrote a year after the publication of his 30-year football life 'The Age of Football'
Jul 25, 2024
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Chairman Chung is currently at the center of controversy in the process of appointing Hong Myung-bo as coach of the national soccer team. However, the KFA has already announced that Chairman Chung has delegated all authority.
According to the KFA, Chairman Chung Mong-gyu said, "When Lee Im-saeng, the technical director, met with the three final candidates in Europe and agreed to continue the interview and verification process, Chairman Chung Mong-gyu said, "I will trust the judgment and agree to the choice" After the meeting, even when Lee said he would report the results to the chairman after the meeting in Europe, there is no need to report directly to me on who he finally decided to do so."' conveyed his intention. In response, director Lee delivered to Kim Jeong-bae, vice chairman of full-time, that he was Hong Myung-bo among the three, asking him to proceed with the contract," he stressed.
However, fans' eyes are cold. Posting comments criticizing him has been attacked by many people, big and small, as if it has become a play or trend in the Internet world.
The explanation is that 'The Age of Football' may be the first 'Official Comment' to answer the misunderstandings and controversies surrounding him. Just as the brainstore that published 'The Age of Football' has been honest and calm in the face of public criticism and criticism, most of the books have been written fairly dry and light. I just wanted to organize my 30 years as a soccer player into a book, so I spent a year writing from last summer."
'The Age of Football' is not a book to narrow misunderstandings with the public, but rather a book to share with yourself the things you have done and the steps you have taken. And everything is mediated by soccer and Korean soccer. It contains the things that an entrepreneur named Chung Mong-gyu thought about and thought about for the development of Korean soccer for 30 years, and challenged and tried.
There is success and failure in it. Some results were close to perfection, and others were close to misjudgment. But he doesn't inflate or curtail those things. Find the meaning of what goes well and what goes wrong and conclude it. This is because he believes that it can be a good mark not only for himself but also for those who will strive for the development of Korean soccer in the future. This book is full of such signs.
Chairman Chung, who wrote the book `The Age of Soccer,' said, `Although it is a private book, I wrote it as objectively and rationally as possible with the mindset of a military officer who keeps public records.' He talked about his relationship with soccer, which has been in line with many points in his more than 60 years of life, and summarized what he saw and felt through his own prism about major things he experienced directly and indirectly as the president of the Korea Professional Football Federation and the president of the Korea Football Association over the past 14 years.
He acknowledges that the circumstances, the whole story, and his thoughts and feelings revealed through the book may be far from the experiences and perceptions of other officials, and seeks broad understanding. He adds that if there is a difference between each other over one task, it may result from a different perspective or interpretation, or from the author's own intellectual limitations or errors in information. I hope that there will be an opportunity to share opinions through conversations again at any time regarding the different views they have.
The book consists largely of three parts. Part 1 'Jung Mong-gyu's Yesterday: Talking About the Owners of the Club-K League's Presidency', Part 2 'Jung Mong-gyu's Today: Talking About the Presidency of the Korea Football Association', and Part 3 'Jung Mong-gyu's Vision: Talking About the Future of Korean Football'. He/she said that he/she tried not to put his/her self-interest into it because it is a record and shared material for the soccer world, and that he/she wrote a book with the hope that everyone who loves soccer and Korean soccer would get big and small insights through this book.
Chairman Chung says he had no choice but to write this book because he loves Korean soccer.
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