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"Foreign goalkeeper" is showing signs of revival for the first time in 25 years. As a result of Sports Chosun's report, it was confirmed that the Korean Professional Football Federation is planning a public hearing to review the re-inflow of foreign goalkeepers in the K League at the end of this month. The federation's public hearing is a place where officials from various occupations, including club employees, leaders, and the media, share their opinions. The soccer community interprets the public hearing as a 'build-up' for re-inflow of foreign goalkeepers. It plans to collect opinions and review whether or not it will be re-inflowed and when it will be introduced. Before the public hearing, I heard the voices of the field.
Most of the officials who contacted them positively viewed the reintroduction of foreign goalkeepers. In 1999, when the federation banned foreign goalkeepers from playing in the K-League, active leader A said, "Sarichev (God's Hand) caused a stir in the K-League at the time." I remember that the recruitment was banned because the domestic goalkeeper's competitiveness was weakened"The situation is different now. The level of goalkeepers in Korea has increased a lot. The reintroduction of foreign goalkeepers will not have much impact on the current league and team." The federation allowed foreign goalkeepers to play only half of the entire season in 1997 due to the training of domestic goalkeepers, and banned them from participating in a third in 1998 and at all in 1999. As a result, foreign goalkeepers disappeared from the K-League in the 21st century.
An official from K League 1 said "The fact that goalkeepers who played in Korea are advancing to the Japanese stage one after another proves that the level of K-League goalkeepers has risen that much. There is no reason why the K-League should not open its doors." An official from K League 2 said "In the past, it may have been necessary to ban foreign goalkeepers. However, the K-League is a sport that has to make the best product and make it a hit. The goalkeeper, who has the best skills at home and abroad, should take the field and show the best performance to fans. Korean players also need to think that they are increasing their competitiveness rather than worrying about whether they will lose their place. Unlike the K-League, Japan's J-League opened its doors to foreign goalkeepers. As of the 2024 season, six out of 20 teams (30%) used foreign goalkeepers as their main players. Four of them were Koreans (Jung Sung-ryong, Kim Jin-hyeon, Song Bum-keun, Koo Sung-yoon), one was from Australia (Mitchell Langarack), and one was from Brazil (Mateus Vidotto). If the scope is expanded to the second part, it will be easy to meet foreign goalkeepers from Germany (Svend Brodersen) and Poland (Jacob Siewicz). However, all the top five goalkeepers from J-League winner Vissel Kobe to fifth-ranked Kashima Antlers were Japanese.
The fact that the scarcity value can lower the ransom of domestic goalkeepers, reduce goal risk, and produce new attractions in the K-League is a net function of the influx of foreign goalkeepers mentioned by soccer workers.
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2024 K League 1 MVP Cho Hyun-woo
(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Ryu Young-seok = Ulsan HD Cho Hyun-woo, who won the K League 1 Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is taking a commemorative photo with the trophy at the K League 2024 Awards held at the Swiss Grand Hotel in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 29th. 2024.11.29
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There were also opinions that foreign goalkeepers could eventually threaten the position of GK in Korea, leading to a weakening of the national team's competitiveness. One football agent said "The more goals a goalkeeper scores, the better he or she gets. One of the reasons why high-quality goalkeepers such as Kim Seung-gyu, Cho Hyun-woo, Lee Chang-geun, and Kim Jun-hong continue to be produced is because they have steadily gained experience in playing. If foreign goalkeepers are introduced again, there will be many goalkeepers who will lose ground and be culled," he said. A soccer leader said, `Almost all clubs have foreign players on the front line, so there have been no native big strikers for several years. Would it be different to be a goalkeeper?Taking other positions as an example, he observed that the influx of foreign goalkeepers would have a significant impact on the K-League.
Some argued that institutional supplementation must be followed prior to the influx of foreign goalkeepers. "If we increase the foreign quota by one or two more positions, we will consider recruiting foreign goalkeepers," one expert said. "There is a high cost to recruiting foreign players, and the number of foreign players who can play needs to be increased as well."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
