A day before the election of the talkative 'football president'...As expected, Jeong Mong-gyu? Turning the tables on Heo Jung-moo?
A day before the election of the talkative 'football president'...As expected, Jeong Mong-gyu? Turning the tables on Heo Jung-moo?
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The election to select the president of the Korea Football Association, the "President of the Korean Football Association," is just a day away. Attention is focusing on whether current chairman Chung Mong-kyu will win re-confidence and win a fourth term in the first primary in 12 years, or whether former national soccer team coach Huh Jung-moo or newspaper commentator Huh Jung-sun will become the new chairman.
Elections for the 55th president of the Korea Football Association will take place on Tuesday. Chung Mong-kyu, president of the Korea Football Association, former national team coach Huh Jung-moo and commentator on the newspaper line will run in this election for the first time in 12 years.
In the 2013 presidential election, Chairman Chung Mong-kyu was elected, beating People Works Chairman Huh Seung-pyo, former National Secondary Soccer Federation Chairman Kim Seok-han, and lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun. Afterwards, when Chairman Chung won the second and third terms, he ran alone and won a second term without holding a primary.
Chairman Chung Mong-gyu has recently shown his determination to serve a fourth term despite constant controversy.
The Korea Football Association caused a big controversy in March 2023 when 100 soccer players, including those expelled for match fixing, issued surprise pardons.
In 2024, when Jurgen Klinsmann was sacked, unfairness and opaque suspicions arose in the process of appointing a new head coach. Due to various controversies, Chairman Chung Mong-gyu was strongly criticized for attending pending questions and parliamentary inspection by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee. 스포츠토토
There was a lot of negative attention to this, but Chairman Chung announced his candidacy again.
There are many voices of criticism against Chairman Chung Mong-gyu both inside and outside the soccer community, but the field predicts that Chung will be elected highly.
Chairman Chung Mong-gyu has been the president of the Korea Football Association for more than 10 years and is known to be highly supported by the heads of each city and provincial association and federation. On the 6th, the Korea Football Leaders Association officially supported Chairman Chung Mong-gyu.
In order to respond to the controversial chairman Chung Mong-kyu, former soccer player coach Huh Jung-moo and newspaper commentator Shin Moon-sun stepped up as opponents.
It is also expected that former coach Huh Jung-moo, who served as a player, leader, and administrator, will receive a lot of support from the scene where he wants to change.
It is an election for the Korea Football Association, which is receiving a lot of attention, but there is a possibility that it will not be held on the 8th.
Former coach Huh Jung-moo filed for a provisional injunction against the Korea Football Association on Dec. 30 last year against the Korea Football Association to ban the election of the president of the Korea Football Association. Coach Huh Jung-moo claims that the Korea Football Association unfairly conducted the election schedule for the president of the association.
According to the legal community, the Civil Affairs Department 50 (Chief Judge Kim Sang-hoon) of the Seoul Central District Court held its first interrogation date on the case of an application for provisional injunction against the election on the 6th. The court will draw a conclusion on this before Election Day, but the election schedule may be postponed if the court cites it.
Meanwhile, candidates for the upcoming election will announce their political views for 10 minutes on the morning of the election day. After that, 173 electors will vote and the votes will be counted immediately. The president-elect, who will be announced immediately after the vote count, will start his term on the 22nd.