Kim Do-gyun, the head coach of professional soccer’s K League 1 Suwon FC, is expected to take over the reins of the K League 2 (second division) Seoul Eland next year.According to the soccer world on the 12th, Kim and the club are in talks to sign a contract.The contract has not yet been stamped, but the general agreement is reportedly complete.”The talks are very advanced,” an official from the club told Yonhap News Agency. “We’re going to have a meeting about the contract,” Kim said, adding, “I’m very happy to keep (Suwon FC) here.”The club’s desire to achieve promotion on its 10th anniversary was matched by Kim’s desire to leave the civic club and take on a new challenge.Founded in 2014, Lee Land has always been in the K League 2. As a corporate club founded after 17 years in the K League, the team had high expectations but failed to live up to them.Except for its first season in 2015, the team never made the playoffs and bounced around the lower levels of the league. By the 2023 season, the team was ranked 11th out of 13 teams in the league.

The team parted ways with coach Park Chung-gyun after just one year and began searching for a new head coach early on.None of the seven coaches who have held the position had previous K League experience as a head coach.Kim’s four seasons at the helm of Suwon FC, where he experienced both promotion and retention in the K League 1, made him the best choice for the club, which cannot afford to delay its goal of promotion.Lee Land first offered Kim the head coaching job at Suwon FC, where he was fighting to stay up.Kim connected with the club after they won the promotion playoffs, and the process moved quickly from there.”Personally, I think I need to make a new change,” Kim said. “I think it’s time for Suwon FC to make some changes in terms of coaches and players,” he said, adding, “I’ll be a second-tier coach 카지노사이트킹 (at Eland), but I want to take on another challenge