National team coach Ryu Ji-hyun will leave Taiwan on the 20th…2026 WBC Preparedness
Feb 17, 2025
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KBO announced on the 17th that coach Ryu Ji-hyun of the 2026 WBC national team will leave for Taiwan on the 20th to analyze the history of the WBC qualifying round.
The WBC qualifying round at Taipei Dome in Taiwan will be held in round robin format with four countries participating: Taiwan, South Africa, Nicaragua and Spain. The top two teams to qualify for the qualifying round will qualify for the WBC finals in March 2026.
South Korea suffered the humiliation of being eliminated from the first round of the group stage at the '2023 WBC' held in March 2023. At that time, South Korea was in Group B of the first round group league with Japan, Australia, China and the Czech Republic. South Korea finished the tournament in third place in the group with two wins and two losses due to kneeling down to Japan and Australia. Japan came in first with four wins and Australia came in second with three wins and one loss. South Korea had to settle for a direct ticket to the 2026 WBC finals by catching weak China and the Czech Republic.
South Korea's pride as an Asian baseball powerhouse was cracked as it was eliminated in the first round not only in 2023 but also in 2013 and 2017. South Korea also suffered humiliating loss to Taiwan and Japan in the group stage at the '2024 WBC Premier 12' held in November last year. It was a decisive incident in which he broke up with former coach Ryu Joong-il and appointed coach Ryu Ji-hyun.
Regarding the continued sluggish performance in international competitions, the Korean baseball community said, "Korean baseball is also making efforts to improve, but countries such as Australia and Taiwan, which have been considered below Korea, have risen a lot."We agreed.
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The KBO said, `Coach Ryu Ji-hyun was highly praised by the Power Reinforcement Committee for his long experience in various positions on the field, his leadership was recognized by the team, and his experience by participating in a number of international competitions as a coaching staff for the national team for many years", he explained.
Ryu began his leadership career as a defense and base coach for the WBC national team in 2006, and from 2007 to 2008, he received leadership training for the Seattle Mariners in the U.S. Major League Baseball. He served as the LG Twins' first-team coach from 2009 to 2020 before serving as the 13th manager of LG from 2021 to 2022. The national team's coaching career is also spectacular from the 2013 WBC national team, the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, the 2017 APBC, the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, the 2023 APBC, and the 2024 Premier 12.
Along with head coach Ryu, Kang In-kwon, Lee Dong-wook, Heo Sam-young, a power reinforcement committee member, and an employee in charge of power analysis will accompany him on this power analysis business trip. It will conduct power analysis until the 25th and return home on the 26th.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
