Head coach Lee Young-bok (54) and Jeong Jeong-myeong (43) Dong-eui-dae coach, who coached Chungam High School with passionate leadership in the JTBC baseball entertainment program ‘Strongest Baseball’, will guide promising players in Korean baseball.
The Korea Baseball Softball Association (KBSA) said, “Lee Young-bok, coach of Chungam High School, and the 30th Asian Baseball Championship will be dispatched to the 31st World Youth Baseball Championship held in Taiwan (Taipei, Taichung) in September as the coach of the youth national team. “We have selected Dong-Eui-Dae Jeong Jeong as the coach of the national team to be dispatched to the tournament (to be held in Taiwan in November).”
Recruitment of coaches메이저사이트 for each age group was open to the public, and on the 26th of last month, the evaluation of the members of the Performance Improvement Committee was conducted for the coaches who responded to the contest, and coach Lee Young-bok and coach Jung Bo-myeong, who were highly evaluated in leadership and game management ability, were confirmed as the command towers for each age group. did.
Head coach Lee Young-bok, who will lead the national youth team, started his career as a coach at his alma mater, Chungam High School, in 1993, and has been coaching Chungam Elementary School and Chungam Middle School since 2004.
In 2021, he led the championship in the Blue Dragon National High School Baseball Championship and Weekend League Wangjungwangjeon and the Presidential Cup National High School Baseball Championship. raised
He also showed excellent ability in nurturing players and trained many star players such as Yoon Young-cheol (KIA Tigers) and Kim Dong-heon (Kiwoom Heroes) who are active in the KBO League.
Coach Jeong Bo-myeong, who will lead the adult national team, graduated from Hyocheon High School and Dong-eui University, played for 11 years at Lotte Giants, and has been leading Dong-eui University, his alma mater, since 2019 after serving as managing director and coach at Lotte. He has been in the spotlight for the past two years as a leader who communicates and studies with players, having ranked 3rd in a row in the University Baseball U-League King of the Kings. In last year’s KBO rookie draft, his students Jun-ho Yoon (Doosan Bears), Jun-seo Kang (Samsung Lions), and Jun-myeong Lee (KT Wiz) were nominated and produced the most KBO rookies among college teams.
Coincidentally, the two coaches are familiar to baseball fans as they lead Chungam High School and Dong-eui University side by side in the popular entertainment program, Strongest Baseball.
Korea has reached the top of the World Youth Baseball Championships a total of 5 times, and is ranked 3rd with the most wins following Cuba (11th) and the USA (7th), and placed 4th at the 30th tournament held in Florida, USA last year. occupied Also, at the Asian Baseball Championship, he reached the top in the 27th competition in 2015 and finished 4th in 2019.
Meanwhile, the association, which has completed the selection of coaches, will complete the selection of coaching staff and players for each competition in June and July, and will begin preparations for dispatching the national team in earnest.