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| The Korea-Japan Dream Players Game held at Escon Field, Hokkaido, Japan on the 22nd. MIP Lee Jong-beom and MVP Itoi are taking a commemorative photo. Hokkaido (Japan) = Photo Sharing Foundation / 2024.07.22/ |
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| Korea-Japan Dream Players Game Training held at Escon Field, Hokkaido, Japan on the 21st. Jang Jong-hoon, Ahn Kyung-hyun, and Lee Jong-beom are posing. Hokkaido (Japan) = Photo Sharing Foundation / 2024.07.21/ |
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| The Korea-Japan Dream Players Game held at Escon Field, Hokkaido, Japan on the 22nd. The winning Japanese players are happy. Hokkaido (Japan) = Photo Sharing Foundation / 2024.07.22/ |
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"Those who are good at it are good. (Lee)Jongbeom tells me to (play) again, right?"
KT Wiz coach Lee Kang-chul expressed his impression of watching the Korea-Japan Dream Players Game (Legend All-Star Game).
The Korea-Japan Dream Players Game was held at Econ Field, the home stadium of Nippon Ham Fighters located in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, Japan, on the 22nd. Despite the season, a large number of baseball legends from both countries were dispatched.
Japan's coach Tatsunori Hara and South Korea's coach Kim In-sik took the helm. Japan's Koji Uehara, Kyuji Fujikawa, Michihiro Ogasawara and Tsuyoshi Nishioka, and Korea's Lee Jong-beom, Yang Joon-hyuk, Kim Tae-kyun, Park Kyung-wan and Park Seok-min. For baseball fans in both Korea and Japan, it was a valuable moment to meet the superstars of the past, and to play on the ground again. The players who participated also did not hide their feelings from their first song in a long time, cheering songs and shouts from tens of thousands of spectators.
The background of the fateful Korea-Japan war is even more impressive. 30,000 spectators gathered at the site and filled the stands.
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| The Korea-Japan Dream Players Game held at Escon Field, Hokkaido, Japan on the 22nd. Cho Woong-cheon is fighting hard. Hokkaido (Japan) = Photo Sharing Foundation / 2024.07.22/ |
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| The Korea-Japan Dream Players Game held at Escon Field, Hokkaido, Japan on the 22nd. Director Kim In-sik and Ha-ra are taking a commemorative photo. Hokkaido (Japan) = Photo Sharing Foundation / 2024.07.22/ |
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| Korea-Japan Dream Players Game Press Conference held at Escon Field, Hokkaido, Japan on the 22nd. Japan's Inaba and Hara, South Korean director Kim In-sik and Lee Jong-beom are taking commemorative photos. Hokkaido (Japan) = Photo Sharing Foundation / 2024.07.22/ |
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Coach Lee Kang-chul didn't watch the whole game, but he watched the beginning of the game. He said "Jongbeom should play again, right? It was a match between Korea and Japan, and the atmosphere was different. "Cho Woong-cheon could be used as a player right now? The change-up was alive. "The angle is huge. I went to Sapporo with (Cho) Woong-cheon during the 2003 Olympic qualifying round, and Woong-cheon went again."
This competition is also held by Nippon Ham to promote the newly built Sconfield. It is the latest open-close dome that opened in March last year. There was also praise from the field that 'The baseball field is really good'
However, there was another part that director Lee Kang-chul really admired.
"It's a legendary friendly match, but the crowd is coming...First of all, the ballpark was amazing, and the big ballpark was filled with spectators. As expected, Japan is amazing, and I thought baseball players are treated with this respect."
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