Chairman Chung Mong-kyu pledges to donate 5 billion won in soccer development...Cheonan Football Center Successfully Completed → Promises to Contribute Financially

Jan 07, 2025

Jung Mong-gyu, president of the Korea Football Association, held a press conference to run for the 55th president of the Korea Football Association at the conference hall on the first floor of the Ponyjeong Foundation Building in Seoul on the afternoon of the 19th. Chairman Chung Mong-gyu poses after the press conference. Chairman Chung was approved by the Sports Fair Committee of the Sports Council on the 11th to seek a fourth consecutive term. After completing the candidate registration process, which will run from the 25th to the 27th, he will try for the fourth term in earnest. Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2024.12.18/

President of the Korea Football Association Chung Mong-kyu was interviewed at the office of the I-Park Mall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the 18th. Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2024.12.18/

Chung Mong-kyu, chairman of the Korea Football Association, who is seeking the fourth term, declared a donation of 5 billion won a day before the election.

The election for the 55th president of the Korea Football Association will take place on the 8th. With Chairman Chung challenging himself, Huh Jung-moo, former chairman of Hana Citizen in Daejeon, and a visiting professor of sports record analysis at the Graduate School of Records and Information Science in Shinmun Seon Myungji University, were the opponents.

Chung said he would donate 5 billion won to the Korea Football Association for the successful completion of the Korea Football Center, a key pledge. During the election, he felt more desperate about the importance of soccer infrastructure while traveling around the country to meet electors, and he made the decision to respond to the support of soccer players and to further emphasize the importance of the Korea Football Center to the people.

Since announcing his candidacy, Chairman Chung has expressed his willingness to take responsibility for and complete the Korea Football Center as a platform for the development of the soccer industry. In addition, we will complete all construction and create new jobs for soccer players through the completion of the three stages of the center corporation-monetization-independence I've promised.

The Korea Football Center, which is being built in Ipjang-myeon, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, the center of the Republic of Korea, has a total area of 478,000㎡. Eleven natural and artificial grass fields, mini stadiums, indoor soccer fields, soccer history museums, and living facilities will be built on the site about three times larger than Paju NFC, allowing training of national teams at all levels, as well as training of youth, leaders, referees, compulsory trainers, and various competitions to be held.

International interest is high not only as a facility for soccer but also as a model for successful cooperation projects with local governments.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.