K League 1 Seongnam FC manager Kim Nam-il resigns due to poor performance
Enter 2022.08.24 (13:47)
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Kim Nam-il, manager of Seongnam FC in K-League 1, has resigned after taking responsibility for his poor performance.
A Seongnam FC official said on the 24th, “Director Kim delivered his resignation today, and the club has decided to accept it.”
Manager Kim expressed his intention to resign from the club a couple of times prior to the continued poor performance this season, but he continued his position as manager each time due to the disapproval of the Seongnam club.
However, I wanted to make a comeback by running a winning streak against Incheon on the 30th of last month and Jeju on the 2nd of this month, but when I lost 3 in a row and it became difficult to escape from the bottom of the table, the club decided to seek new changes and accepted coach Kim’s will to step down. did.
The official said, “We are continuing internal discussions about the direction of the team’s operation for the rest of the season.”
Manager Kim, who took over in Seongnam in 2019, has led the team for the third season.
Seongnam succeeded in remaining in the first division every season under Kim’s management, but this season, they have only 4 wins, 6 draws, and 17 losses in 27 matches, leaving 11th place Gimcheon FC at the bottom by 8 points.
While they are already on the verge of relegation, the recent rumors of ‘selling out the club’ have made the team even more difficult.
Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin, the owner of the club, expressed his intention to sell the club in an interview with a weekly magazine recently, referring to the fact that the club is being investigated for ‘suspicious misappropriation of donations from large corporations’.
After the away game against FC Seoul on the 21st, manager Kim said, “I have no choice but to follow the way Seongnam City has a certain idea and plan.
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