"The Promised Mourinho 2nd Year" and "Kim Ki-dong 2nd Year"..."End of adjustment" Seoul's 2nd year winner
"The Promised Mourinho 2nd Year" and "Kim Ki-dong 2nd Year"..."End of adjustment" Seoul's 2nd year winner
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"Morinho's 2nd year of promise".
The "second-year formula" that "Special One" coach Jose Mourinho Fenerbahce will take charge of a specific team and unconditionally win a major trophy in his second year is famous among soccer fans. Mourinho won the English Premier League (EPL) in the 2005-2006 season, the second year of Chelsea's first term, and achieved the "Treble" to dominate Italy's Serie A, the European Champions League, and Copa Italy in the 2009-2010 season, which marked the second year of Inter Milan's inauguration. In the 2011-2012 season, the second year of Real Madrid's head coach, he beat rival FC Barcelona to win the Spanish Primera Liga, and once again raised the EPL trophy in the 2014-2015 season, the second year of Chelsea's second year. After taking the helm of Manchester United in 2016, he went through Tottenham and Rome, and the "second-year law" was no longer valid.
There are many reasons why Mourinho is unusually in his second year of performance. He would have needed a year or so to get a player that suits his taste, to adapt to his tactics and coaching methods, and to analyze the league's style and characteristics of the opposing team. Of course, he has produced results since the first season, as he did in Porto and Manchester United.
In this context, all eyes are on the challenge of Kim Ki-dong, who is in his second year in Seoul. Kim took the helm of Seoul ahead of the 2024 season, and placed his team in the Final A Group (1st to 6th) in his first season. Seoul, which had been in the lower split for four consecutive seasons since 2019, has emerged as a threat to the top spot by ranking fourth. Compared to the 30 points gap with the 2022 league championship, the team more than halved to 14 points last year. It was the first time in seven years that Seoul had 16 wins or more in the league since 2017 (5th). Kim, who ended his winless jinx against Jeonbuk for the first time in seven years in an away match against Jeonbuk in June last year, instilled the winning mentality of "I can do it, I can win it" in a team soaked in defeat, which is more than a fourth place.
During the first winter training with Kim last year, the players had difficulty adapting themselves to the intense physical training and tactical movements that Kim ordered. For this reason, Kim failed to accumulate enough points as he failed to display the performance he wanted in the early days of the season. During the course of a year of sharing the same joy and sorrow with Kim, Kim Ki-dong soccer was naturally applied to the bodies of Seoul players. It is said that the training process during this winter was smoother than that of the previous year. In addition, the team has upgraded its capabilities by recruiting fullback Kim Jin-soo, winger Moon Sun-min, and hard worker midfielder Jung Seung-won, who suits Kim's taste. This is why we can count on Kim Ki-dong's second year like Mourinho's second year. At the Media Day of four K-League teams participating in the Asian Champions League on the 5th, Ulsan coach Kim Pan-gon and Pohang coach Park Tae-ha pointed out Seoul as the competitor for the championship. Seoul last won the regular league nine years ago in 2016.
Coach Kim has already experienced "second-year success" at Pohang, his former workplace. Coach Kim, who took the helm of Pohang during the 2019 season, put Pohang in third place in the league and the semifinals of the Korea Cup with his extraordinary leadership in 2020, his second year and first full season as a professional head coach. Coach Kim, who created the formula "Gi-dong Magic," wrote the first history that a third-place coach won the Coach of the Year award. "This year, 바카라사이트 I will play in the season with 'expectations' that it will be better than last year, rather than 'excited'," coach Kim said. "I think more detailed and quality soccer will come out than last year." Seoul will return to Guri GS Champions Park after completing the second off-season training in Kagoshima, Japan on the 10th. The away game in Jeju on the 15th is the season's opening game.