"Willian has a great energy level and everything."
Suwon FC coach Kim Eun-joong expressed satisfaction after his first training with summer transfer students such as Willian, who was recruited from the summer transfer market FC Seoul.
Reinforcing the summer transfer market was very important for Suwon FC, which is ranked 11th with only three wins in 20 league games this season. Attention was paid to the situation in which Andersson had to leave for FC Seoul and fill the rest of the puzzle.
After many twists and turns, FC Seoul recruited 'Veteran Crack'Willian (ranked number 44). Willian is an optimized foreign striker for the K-League, which has scored 50 points and 15 assists in 160 games in Gyeongnam, Daejeon and Seoul since entering the K-League through Gwangju FC in 2019. Immediately after joining FC Seoul in 2023, he showed eight goals and two assists, but after the second half of last year, he was not given an opportunity due to overlapping injuries. As a striker with clear strengths such as threatening breakthrough ability and individual skills that shake up the back space of defense, he is expected to be an ace who will fill Andersson's vacancy if he recovers his prime form. As head coach Kim Eun-joong has an excellent ability to maximize and motivate the players' tactical strengths, attention is focusing on his chemistry with Willian and whether he will be revived.
Coach Kim Eun-joong `respects and empowers Willian. I'm training with great pleasure." Suwon FC has been conducting a four-night, five-day off-season training in Yangyang, Gangwon-do since the 7th. Willian, Lee Si-young and Han Chan-hee joined the training ground last week and Kim Kyung-min joined the training ground on the 7th.
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| Courtesy of Han Chan-hee's photo=Suwon FC |
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| Courtesy of Willian photo=Suwon FC |
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| photo courtesy of Lee Si-young =Suwon FC |
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"Lee Si-young, Kim Kyung-min, and Han Chan-hee are all players who have been associated with me in the U-23 national team," said Kim, a former coach of the U-23 national team who led the team to the gold medal in the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games. (Han) Chan-hee seems to have been with our team from the beginning," he said, describing the atmosphere of adaptation to the storm. Coach Kim said, `Players need to feel comfortable first to display their performance. I thought it would be motivating to come to the new team because everyone clearly has what they have, and they had a thirst and hunger to play."
"Willian is a player who has to use Andersson as the main player, so I have a lot of expectations. I'm sure you'll do a good job. "Because he knows the K League, he can reduce risks in the summer transfer market, and because he has a clear advantage and scoring ability, he wanted the most." In response to the assessment that the recruitment of Willian, Lee Si-young and Ahn Hyun-beom has enriched the side resources, head coach Kim said, `Because the side consumes a lot of physical strength, and the tactical role of sides and wing forwards is important in modern soccer.' `Lee Si-young is a player who can see both left and right sidebacks, so it will be a tactically diverse option, and Ahn Hyun-beom plans to use it as an aggressive wing forward like the match against Gangwon.' "It will be difficult to completely fill Andersson's vacancy immediately, but we need several people, not one," he added. Suwon FC are no longer Andersson's team. Coach Kim also made that clear. "We are a team of not one player but several players doing it together. Andersson's transfer is regrettable and disappointing, but in a way, he will have more weapons and diversity." "As players of different styles compete and coexist, there are some players who can act as game changers in the second half, and we will match the combination well for the rest of the year." "The atmosphere at the training ground has improved as the competition structure and tension have been created." Hope was palpable in the voice of director Kim Eun-joong. After the East Asian Cup break, he was confident of a rebound in mechanical ball in the second half of the league. "We are confident enough to rebound, and we can certainly do so."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
