Huh Jung-moo, former chairman of Hana Citizen in Daejeon, officially announced his candidacy for the 55th president of the Korea Football Association. He is the first candidate. Now, the eyes of the soccer community are on whether Chung Mong-gyu, the current president of the Korea Football Association, will seek a fourth term.
The Korea Football Association will hold an executive meeting on Tuesday morning. Executive meetings of the association are held regularly every Tuesday, and could be the last meeting under Chairman Chung Mong-gyu.
Chung Mong-gyu first led the Korea Football Association when he was appointed as the 52nd president of the Korea Football Association in 2013. Since then, he has served as the head of Korean soccer for 12 years, winning a third term.
In order for Chairman Chung Mong-gyu to seek a fourth term, he must complete his candidate registration by December 2, 50 days before the end of his term (January 21, 2025).
The soccer community predicts that Chairman Chung will decide whether to seek a fourth consecutive term at the executive meeting.
If Chairman Chung expresses his intention to seek a fourth term, the Korea Sports Council's Sports Fair Committee will conduct the review. Since Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, was approved by the Korea Sports Council's Fair Trade Commission to seek a third term, the approval of Chairman Chung's bid for a fourth term is not likely to be a big problem.
However, it seems that it is not easy to decide due to negative public opinion about the Korea Football Association and Chairman Chung Mong-gyu recently.
In South Korean soccer, 100 soccer players, including those expelled for match fixing in March last year, issued surprise pardons, causing great controversy.
Then in February, Klinsmann, who showed below-expected performance at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup and failed to take control of the team, was replaced. Since then, the 메이저사이트 national team, which spent March and June as interim coaches, appointed Hong Myung-bo in July, but unfair and opaque suspicions arose again in the process. There is constant noise throughout.
In response, Chairman Chung Mong-gyu recently declined to say, "I will make a decision after careful consideration," when asked about a fourth term in office at the parliamentary audit and at a meeting with reporters.
Some say that Chung Mong-gyu could seek the fourth term to regain his self-esteem. On the other hand, some say that Chung is agonizing over how to hold his family back, as he has been dissuaded by public criticism and criticism by politicians.
Former chairman Huh Jung-moo was the first to announce his candidacy for the election on the 25th amid the deepening agony of chairman Chung Mong-gyu. "Currently, the Korea Football Association has administrative difficulties. The root cause of various problems that have emerged is also the dogmatic operation and insufficient decision-making structure," Huh said. "The president of the association should be changed this time."
The next KFA presidential election will be held on January 8 next year, and the elected president will begin his term on January 22, 2025.