Lee Im-saeng, director of KFA, who is upset, says, "I will resign." a bombshell remark

Sep 24, 2024

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"I'm going to resign."

Lee Im-saeng, technical director of the Korea Football Association, said tearfully.

On the 24th, a question on pending issues of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee was held at the main building of the National Assembly. Here, we looked at the process of appointing the coach of the A national team of the Korea Football Association and the controversy surrounding the Korea Badminton Association and the Korea Sports Association. In all three organizations, a total of 25 witnesses and eight witnesses were called to the National Assembly. In the Korea Football Association, Chairman Chung Mong-kyu, head coach Hong Myung-bo, technical director Lee Im-saeng, former chairman of the national team's power reinforcement committee, and former power reinforcement committee member Park Joo-ho were selected as witnesses.

At the last additional question, director Min Hyung-bae asked director Lee one after another about the results of the Korea Electric Power Federation (KCC) meeting. The director asked for a response time. He took the last chance to speak. He said "I'm resigning. But I can never agree that I don't talk on the phone and I don't agree. I hope I get it from those MPs. I talked to Park for 2 minutes and 44 seconds. He said he couldn't do what the reporter asked him to do.

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Earlier, lawmaker Min presented a text capture image between director Lee and a power reinforcement committee member as data. The text conversation in question took place on the night of July 8, the day after the Korea Football Association appointed Hong as the coach of the national team. In this conversation, the director only needs to call the XX reporter and confirm that I will make the final decision"Asking Mr. A, a member of the power reinforcement committee. After 6 minutes, Mr. A "I think it would be good if you could proceed except for me. I'm sorry."

The director led the appointment of a director instead after former chairman Chung abruptly stepped down after selecting three final candidates: Hong Myung-bo, Gus Foyet and David Wagner. He went straight to Europe and interviewed foreign candidates in Spain and Germany on July 3. After that, he returned to Korea and met with Hong on the 5th of the same month. Director Lee has explained through press conferences that he asked for consent from five members of the power reinforcement committee before meeting director Hong.

On the other hand, director Lee said in his final remarks that `the hardest thing about national team players coming is that the grass is hard to run. Members would like to help players perform well on good turf."

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