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Korean field hockey coach returns home as Asiad adviser
By Korea HeraldPublished : Sept. 12, 2014 - 20:28
Four years after coaching China to the Asian Games gold in women’s field hockey, South Korean-native Kim Sang-yeol has come home.
Kim, 59, will serve as an adviser for the South Korean women’s team at this year’s Asiad, set to open next Friday in Incheon, west of the capital city, for a 16-day run. It will be Kim’s seventh consecutive Asian Games.
And he has won a medal in six of those with two different countries. He coached the South Korean men’s team to the gold in 1994 and then to the silver in 1998.
Four years later, Kim took over the women’s team in South Korea and took the silver. He moved to China for the 2006 Asian Games and helped the men’s squad there win the silver.
Kim coached the Chinese women’s team in 2010 in Guangzhou, China, where the host won its third consecutive Asiad title.
China defeated South Korea in the final at the time, a result that Kim said still eats at him to this day. (Yonhap)
Kim, 59, will serve as an adviser for the South Korean women’s team at this year’s Asiad, set to open next Friday in Incheon, west of the capital city, for a 16-day run. It will be Kim’s seventh consecutive Asian Games.
And he has won a medal in six of those with two different countries. He coached the South Korean men’s team to the gold in 1994 and then to the silver in 1998.
Four years later, Kim took over the women’s team in South Korea and took the silver. He moved to China for the 2006 Asian Games and helped the men’s squad there win the silver.
Kim coached the Chinese women’s team in 2010 in Guangzhou, China, where the host won its third consecutive Asiad title.
China defeated South Korea in the final at the time, a result that Kim said still eats at him to this day. (Yonhap)
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