Korea Basketball Association, 3-on-3 coach Seungjun Lee’s selection process is also a sham

You must have at least 1 year of coaching experience, but you can be appointed as a coach after only 1-2 months.

It was revealed that the Korean 3-on-3 men’s national basketball team, which suffered a crushing loss to Sri Lanka and Indonesia in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup last March, was in fact a ‘sham’ from the very beginning of the coach selection process.

The Korea Basketball Association (Chairman Kwon Hyuk-woon) appointed coach Seung-jun Lee as the head coach of the 3-on-3 men’s national basketball team in early March.

However, as a result of Yonhap News coverage, it was revealed that Director Seungjun Lee did not meet the requirements for open recruitment at the time of his appointment.

At the time, one of the qualification requirements for the open recruitment coach was ‘a person with more than 1 year but less than 5 years of experience in coaching the sport in question, but who has won medals at the Olympic Games and Asian Games and is qualified as a professional sports instructor level 2 or higher in the sport.’ there is.

However, at the time of selection, the association had received an official letter from Chosun University stating that Coach Seungjun Lee had 1 to 2 months of coaching experience.

Nevertheless, the association said that the Korea Sports Council leader registration system showed that Coach Seung-Jun Lee had one year of experience as a coach at Chosun University, and approved Coach Seung-Jun Lee’s candidacy based on this.

According to the Korea Sports Council, the coaching experience in this instructor registration system is entered directly by the instructor himself, and above all, the unit of registration in this system is at least 1 year, so it is difficult to recognize 1 year of experience just because ‘1 year’ is shown here. follows.

Afterwards, the Association claimed that they would request additional confirmation from the Romanian Association and received a response, saying that they would additionally confirm the 2 years and 6 months of coaching experience in the Romanian Basketball Association that Seungjun Lee listed on his resume. However, the response sent by the Romanian Association did not indicate the coaching period at all.

In the end, the Korea Basketball Association appointed coach Seung-Jun Lee, who had only 1 to 2 months of experience as a coach at Chosun University, significantly short of the minimum coaching experience requirement of 1 year during the recruitment process, as the head coach of the 3-on-3 men’s national team.

Afterwards, controversy arose when coach Lee Seung-jun selected Player A, who was found to have very poor skills, for the FIBA ​​Asia Cup at the end of March, and due to the weakening of the national team’s strength, the team was defeated in succession by countries with lower world rankings than Korea, such as Sri Lanka and Indonesia. I knelt.

In addition, player A’s experience of working at the same basketball academy as coach Seung-jun Lee led to a ‘controversy over preferential selection for the national team’, but the Korea Basketball Association’s position is that it will only express regret without disciplinary action against coach Seung-jun Lee.

Jeong Jae-yong, full-time vice president of the Korea Basketball Association, said, “It is true that we were unable to completely verify Coach Seung-Jun Lee’s coaching experience during the manager selection process,” and explained, “Although it is late, the Association is in the process of confirming Coach Seung-Jun Lee’s coaching period from the Romanian Association.” .

Vice Chairman Jeong Jae-yong said, “If the Romanian Association cannot confirm the 2-year and 6-month period that coach Seung-jun Lee wrote on his resume, we will handle it according to procedures.”

/yunhap news