Lee Jung-hyo Breaks Rock with '12.4 Billion' Eggs...leadership revealed in club values
Lee Jung-hyo Breaks Rock with '12.4 Billion' Eggs...leadership revealed in club values
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Rocking with an Egg When you look at the club values of the teams competing against Gwangju FC on the Asian stage, you can see Lee Jung-hyo's leadership.
Gwangju, led by head coach Lee Jung-hyo, drew 2-2 with Buriram United (Thailand) in the final 8th game of the 2024-25 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League Elite (ACLE) League Stage at Gwangju World Cup Stadium on the 18th.
Initially, Gwangju was ranked 5th out of 12 teams, but on the 19th, Shandong Taishan (China) gave up the tournament halfway and advanced to the round of 16 as a fourth. K-League teams Pohang Steelers and Ulsan HD finished their ACLE journey in 9th and 10th places, respectively. The AFC is Shandong
The collapse of K-League teams, which had been raging on the Asian stage, indicates that not only China and Japan but also Southeast Asian clubs have improved their skills. In fact, Southeast Asian teams that participated in ACLE reduced the percentage of their own players and made the top 11 most of them foreign players. Some say that the K-League has limited foreign players (six), making it difficult to be as competitive in the squad as Southeast Asian teams even if they can invest.
Coach Lee Jung-hyo is displaying poor performance even in the K-League, which is worse than any other team. He garnered four wins (two draws and one loss) from seven matches (excluding the match against Shandong) in the ACLE League. Coincidentally, he beat all three teams (Yokohama F. Marinos, Kawasaki Frontale, Johor Darlle Takjim) on the list.
If you look at the value of each club, you can feel the leadership of coach Lee Jung-hyo. According to TransferMarkt, which values soccer players by considering their skills and age, Gwangju's current squad is worth 8.2 million euros (W12.4 billion). Only the Central Coast Mariners (Australia), which is valued at 6.18 million euros (W9.3 billion), have a smaller squad than Gwangju among ACLE East Asian teams.
The Central Coast ended its ACLE journey by ranking 11th in the league stage with no wins in seven matches (one draw and six losses). Considering the competitors' perspective from Gwangju and the Central Coast, they effectively beat eggs in this competition.
Yokohama and Kawasaki Frontale (Japan), which Gwangju defeated, boast team values of 15.28 million euros (23 billion won) and 17.63 million euros (26.6 billion won), respectively. The two teams have marked one or two ACLE East Asian regions. Johor, the Malaysian team that Gwangju won, is also estimated at 14.18 million euros (24.14 billion won). Gwangju lost to Vissel Kobe, Japan, which has the second highest team value among East Asian teams. 바카라사이트
The market value can be seen as "power" in fact, and Gwangju is a sparkle among teams that are more than twice as big. It is appropriate to describe it as breaking rocks with eggs.
Coach Lee Jung-hyo is said to have advanced to the round of 16 with outstanding leadership not only in a small team but also in poor training environment. Having passed the first hurdle, Lee and Gwangju are expected to face increasingly difficult challenges.