If you can't serve, quit volleyball! V League's most wins + 5th team, watch 900 million sets with different aspirations of the man who calls for spring
Mar 25, 2025
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OK Savings Bank appointed Shin Young-chul as its fourth head coach since its foundation on the 24th.
He will lead the fifth team only in men's volleyball in the V League. The nickname is 'Man Who Calls Spring' and 'Spring Volleyball Preacher', which is added to the honor of the head coach of the V League with the most wins (296 wins). Coach Shin Young-chul said in a phone call with this newspaper, `I was waiting for the team that called me. Thank you Choi Yoon for choosing me," he said with a big smile.
As a result, one more native head coach was added to the men's division of the V-League, which has reached its heyday of foreign coaches, following Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance coach Kim Sang-woo and KEPCO coach Kwon Young-min.
Coach Shin Young-chul will lead the team from the 2025-2026 season, but he is busy as soon as he comes.
It is difficult to hold a meeting with the team right now. OK Savings Bank players, whose season ended due to the spring volleyball failure, went on vacation.
For now, the coaching staff has been formed. Coach Jaeheon Kim, who was with Woori Card, and coach Lim Dong-kyu, who was with GS Caltex last season, will join.
The selection of players in the Asian quarter, scheduled for April 11, has fallen on the back foot. After that, he will form a squad including FA and foreign player tryouts and lead the next season.
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In particular, the team and the head coach of Woori Card have reached their heyday. His first regular league No. 1 in the 2019-2020 season and his first advance to the championship team in the 2020-2021 season are all achievements he has made.
What will he show as the head coach of OK Savings Bank. Coach Shin Young-chul said, `Attacker Shin Kyung-jin and setter Lee Min-kyu are the core of the team's power. The foreign player is trying to recruit a player suitable for Korean volleyball. It's important to work with Lee Min Kyu" expressed his aspirations.
Lee Min-kyu has not been appointed in the last two years. At the end of this season, he was completely shunned, including recruiting setter Shota in the Asian quarter. From the perspective of OK Savings Bank, it accounts for a significant portion of the team's salary cap with an annual salary of 900 million won, and the use of Lee Min-kyu, who is a founding member and one-club man, is important.
Coach Shin Young-chul is coming up with a team color that suits OK Savings Bank. Lee Min-gyu is at the center of it. Aren't I from the setter again?"
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Former coach Ogino Massage voluntarily resigned shortly after the end of the regular season on the 20th, taking responsibility for the lowest performance this season. For two years in charge of OK Savings Bank, he advocated the so-called 「Dig & Block」. The strategy is to reduce mistakes with weak serve and focus on counterattacks following digs.
It was explained that it was an optimization strategy suitable for the team. `If my team was Korean Air, I would have run the team mainly as a strong serve.'
Coach Shin Young-chul said he watched all the men's volleyball games while he was a wild man. He praised OK Savings Bank's changed defense, but found it difficult to agree on volleyball theory in terms of serve or attack.
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OK Savings Bank judged that Shin Young-chul was the right person as the head coach who could change the team that was at the bottom and pull it up again", he explained. Regarding the background of the rapid appointment of the coach, Kwon Chul-geun, head of OK Savings Bank, emphasized, "As a result of steadily listing the new coach candidate group. If OK Savings Bank has been a team that plays cute volleyball so far, I hope it will be a team that plays new and aggressive volleyball while making the most of its strengths such as blocking and defense systems."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
