President Oh Kyu-sang, who led the golden generation of women's soccer, will attend the funeral ceremony for the president of the Korea Football Association tomorrow, a wave of condolences for men and women's soccer players
Dec 22, 2024
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Chairman Oh died of late-stage liver cancer complications at a hospice ward in Seoul on the afternoon of the 20th. Chairman Oh, who was sentenced to liver cancer, has been working without stopping at the women's soccer scene, cheering for the team at last year's Australia-New Zealand Women's World Cup, hiding the fact that he was fighting the disease in addition to his family and aides, and until recently, scrambling to prevent the dismantling of Changnyeong FC. Since taking office as president of the Women's Football Federation in 2009, he has led the development of the WK League and women's soccer, and until recently, he has communicated with the government, local governments, and media to insist on ways to develop women's soccer, including the separation of the WK League. On the 9th, while preparing for a new term by winning the 5th term of the Women's Football Federation, his condition rapidly worsened in early December and he was admitted to a general hospital, but he was already out of touch.He failed to attend the annual Women's Football Federation Awards on the 12th and moved to a hospice ward last week, but he closed his eyes on the day without recovering his energy.Chairman Oh, who graduated from Kyungshin-Korea University, was selected as a national team member in 1977 and is a player-turned-administrator who served as the vice head of Ulsan Hyundai in professional football and the head of Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Chosun in business football. While working as a key aide to Chung Mong-joon, the honorary chairman of the Korea Football Association, he became the vice president of the Women's Football Association since 2003 and has been the head since 2009. He led women's soccer to its peak in 2010 by winning the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, ranking third in the U-20 Women's World Cup, and advancing to the Women's World Cup for the third consecutive time.
On the 21st, soccer players such as Chung Mong-kyu, president of the Korea Football Association, Kwon Oh-gap, president of the Korea Professional Football Association, Han Woong-soo, former national team coach Lee Hoi-taek, Huh Jung-moo, former president of the Daejeon Hana Citizen, Yoon Deok-yeo, former head coach of the women's A team, Hong Myung-bo, head coach of the men's A team, and Hwang Sun-hong, head coach of the Daejeon Hana Citizen, visited the mortuary. Chairman Chung Mong-gyu stayed at the mortuary from early morning to late afternoon, consoling the bereaved families and taking care of the mourners himself. Leaders of the women's soccer and WK League business teams, including Shin Sang-woo, head coach of the A women's soccer team, Hwang In-seon, former U-20 team coach, Lee Mi-yeon, head coach of Mungyeong Sangmu, Kim Eun-sook, former Incheon Hyundai Steel coach, and Park Gil-young, head coach of Suwon FC Women, lost someone like their father" "The WK League championship game is the last one.""I didn't know it hurt so much when I came to the stadium until recently." Women's soccer players such as Ji So-yeon, Kwon Eun-som and Kim Du-ri, whom Chairman Oh particularly cherished during his lifetime, executives and employees from Ulsan Mipo Chosun and Ulsan Hyundai, including Kim Kwang-guk, Ulsan Hyundai CEO, Jeon Sung-woo, and Kim Seung-gyu, a goalkeeper from Ulsan Youth, and Cho Hyun-taek, a defender, founded by the deceased, also visited Sejong City to see off the last of the deceased under the leadership of Ryu Sung-ok, a professor of international sports at Korea University. Former IOC member Yoo Seung Min, who is challenging the president of the Korean Sports Council, and honorary professor Kang Shin-wook of Dankook University also paid tribute to the deceased.
Meanwhile, the KFA decided to hold the funeral of the late chairman Oh Kyu-sang as the president of the Korea Football Association. Chairman Oh Kyu-sang contributed to the development of Korean soccer by serving as the director of the Korea Football Association since the 1990s, and he made the decision in honor of his long-standing dedication to the development of Korean women's soccer, including the establishment of the WK League after taking office as the president of the Korea Women's Football Association in 2009", he explained. The funeral ceremony will be held at the Korea Football Center at 10 a.m. on the 23rd.
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