Yang Myung-seok (57), former president of the Daegu Football Association, was elected as the new president of the Korean Women's Football Federation.
Former President Yang won the re-election and final round of the 9th Korean Women's Football Association at the Coreana Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 6th, winning 80 votes and 37 out of 70 valid votes. Former chairman Yang won 34 votes and the most votes in the first round of voting, which was joined by Kwon Jong-chul (61), former head of FIFA Sports, and Jung Hae-sung (66), former chairman of the Korea Football Association's power reinforcement committee, but fell three votes short of the "principle of winning the majority of votes". With candidate Kwon Jong-chul receiving 27 votes and candidate Jung Hae-sung 12 votes, the 1-2nd-place final between Yang and Kwon for 'over-the-top votes' has begun.
In the re-election, which was also the 49th anniversary of the deceased, the former chairman Oh Kyu-sang, who led the federation for 17 years, died of a worsening disease late last year, shortly after the confirmation of his ninth term as the chairman, the electors consisted of a total of 80 players, leaders, and referees. The first round of voting took place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A method in which a majority of valid votes are elected, and a second round of final voting is held when there is no majority vote. The votes of the women's soccer scene were focused on former president Yang, who has been consistently sincere for the women's soccer community over the past decade. He was elected as the 9th president of the Korean Women's Football Association, winning the most votes in the first round, 37 votes in the second round of voting with candidate Kwon Jong-chul, and more than a half of the votes.
President-elect Yang Myung-seok, who will lead the future of women's soccer for four years until February 2029, is a businessman-turned-football administrator. After establishing a relationship with the soccer community as a director of the Jaejoong Football Association, he served as the president of the Dalseong-gun Football Association and the president of the Daegu Football Association. Due to his relationship with the late chairman Oh Kyu-sang, he has been interested in women's soccer for more than a decade through personal support for Yoo Girl. ▶Project to foster young girls' soccer ▶Expand the WK League and increase the budget ▶ Strengthen marketing and expand broadcast rights ▶ Improve the environment of the stadium ▶ Expand programs to train female leaders and increase professional courses for international referees ▶ Support for scholarships for female soccer students ▶ Expand opportunities to participate in international competitions and support them.
Former president Yang announced his political views on women's soccer players before the final vote, saying, `It's been 10 years since I've had a relationship with women's soccer. While serving as the president of the Daegu Football Association for four years, he said, "I know the direction the federation should go out and the direction Korean women's soccer should go in." "There is too little female soccer player. There are also 17 elementary schools nationwide. There are many teams that cannot go to winter training because there are no athletes. We need to create an environment so that young girls can kick the ball happily on the soccer field," he stressed. "There are only seven college teams. I received an official letter saying that it has been dropped as a demonstration event for the National Sports Festival starting this year. If elementary and college women's soccer collapses, it will all collapse. After being elected president, we will focus on revitalizing young girls' soccer by consulting with the Korea Football Association and the Korea Sports Association on policy support that allows young girls to easily enter soccer. "I will ask the new president of the Korea Sports Council, Yoo Seung Min, so that the university department, which has been dropped as an exhibition event for the sports event, can also be raised as an official event." We will also do our best to improve the poor environment of field leaders and referees."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
