National Team Coach Appointed to Lead the Premier 12 National Baseball Team Next Week
The KBO Secretariat is scheduled to appoint a coach next week to lead the Korean national baseball team in the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12 to be held in November.
KBO Secretary General Park Geun-chan said on the 14th, “Next week, when the KBO Power Strengthening Committee recommends a candidate for the national baseball team coach, President Heo Heo-yeon will decide and appoint a new national team coach.”
It is known that the KBO secretariat is likely to set the contract period for the new full-time manager at one year, considering that the only international competition at hand is the Premier 12. 바카라사이트
There will be no international competition next year, and the World Baseball Classic (WBC), which will celebrate its 20th anniversary, will be held in March 2026.
As the baseball team will hold a practice game with the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 17-18, who are visiting Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul to play in the MLB regular season, the KBO secretariat will appoint the manager and some vacant coaching positions. I’m about to speed up.
In accordance with the Korean Baseball Level Up Project announced by the KBO Secretariat in July of last year, the new coach who takes charge of the national team will make his debut in a practice game against MLB.
The KBO secretariat announced 35 representative candidates for a clash with MLB earlier this month.
The Premier 12, in which 12 countries that pride themselves on being baseball powerhouses, competes for their skills, celebrates its 3rd anniversary this year and will be held from November 10 to 24 in the Americas (preliminary location to be determined), Taipei, Taiwan, and Tokyo Dome and Nagoya Dome in Japan.
Korea was the winner of the inaugural competition in 2015 and took second place after Japan in 2019.
According to the baseball world, coach Ryu Joong-il, who led the national team in last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games and the Asian Professional Baseball Championship (APBC), is said to be a strong candidate for a new full-time coach.
Coach Ryu took charge of the national team at the Asian Games following his appointment by the Korea Baseball Softball Association, which oversees amateur international competitions.
At the APBC, which is hosted by four professional baseball organizations in Asia, he led the national team again by being nominated by the KBO secretariat.
Coach Ryu won a gold medal at the Asian Games with young prospects at the forefront despite being evaluated as the weakest team in history.
APBC also received favorable reviews for collaborating well with the Asian Games gold medal members and sending a signal of hope to Korean baseball, which had fallen to the bottom by kneeling by 1 point after two close games with Japan.
It is also worth noting that many of the national team candidates who will compete against MLB teams have grown into promising players in Korean baseball through the Asian Games and APBC.
Considering the performance of the two tournaments and the stable operation of the national team, the general view in the baseball world is that Coach Ryu Joong-il receives high marks as the new full-time coach of the national team.