"Miracle in London" Ji Dong-won's soccer life..."I don't think I can run as long as Lee Yong, Lee Cheong Yong, and Ki Sung Yong."
"Miracle in London" Ji Dong-won's soccer life..."I don't think I can run as long as Lee Yong, Lee Cheong Yong, and Ki Sung Yong."
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"I don't think I'll be able to do it for that long like (Lee) Cheong-yong, (Ki) Sung-yong, or (Lee) Yong-hyung..."
Ji Dong-won, who met at the club's accommodation near Bangkok, Thailand on the 27th, said, "I don't know if I can play as long as the soccer team's brothers who have been together for a long time," adding, "I want to prepare well for the upcoming season."
Veteran striker Ji Dong-won moved to Suwon FC ahead of the last season and played 36 games, scoring six goals and three assists. After playing full-time for the first time in a while, Ji will renew his contract with the club in January and accompany him this season as well.
For Korean soccer fans, it is famous that England and Wales scored the first goal against the hip host England in the quarterfinals of the 2012 London Summer Olympics and awakened the people's dawn.
For fans who know more about soccer, they remember going to the final against Pungsaeng High School during Gwangyang Steel High School, scoring two goals and one assist at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, and being called the "big striker re-entry of Korean soccer."
Ji Dong-won also spent 15 years as a professional player. Ji made his debut with the Jeonnam Dragons in 2010 and played for Sunderland (England), Augsburg, Dortmund, Mainz, Darmstadt (rent), and Braunschweig (rental, Germany) before returning to the K-League after signing a contract with FC Seoul in the summer of 2021.
Since then, he has suffered from injuries for a long time in Seoul.
After moving to Suwon FC last year, however, Ji made a comeback. He is preparing another drama this year. Ji's theme for 2025 is "Let's relax." He said, "I want to relax and prepare for the season without any pressure."
"This season, I'm especially thinking, 'Wouldn't it be better than last year if I put my mind down and prepare comfortably?' Last year, I think I had a little thought, 'What should I show you?' I think this year, if I relax my body and prepare like that, I might be better than last season," he said.
"I'm not sure how long my career will continue," he said, adding, "I don't think I'll be able to do it for that long like (Lee) Cheong-yong (37), (Ki) Sung-yong (36), or (Lee) Yong-yi (38), who was born in 1988, but I'll do my best as much as I can."
"First of all, we need to display good performance. As a striker, he is competing with foreign players, so we need to compete to some extent. Unless I change my position, I don't think it will be easy for me to do it for that long," he said candidly.
The following is Ji Dong-won's question and answer.
-How was the training in Pattaya.
In the beginning, we took a lot of training and increased the intensity of our training, and we played two practice games, so this week is a mentally exhausting time, but we are expecting that our condition has improved because we have been doing it for a long time.
-How are you feeling now.
He is training all the way. And he is so good at controlling the training. The coach and the coaching staff have adjusted the amount of training, so they are preparing well without any problems.
-Maybe because he's a senior in the team, he's being controlled.
That's right. For example, even if we are training to run, we tend to reduce the number of things we need to do 10 times, so even seniors have a responsibility to talk more. 스포츠토토
"The coach and the coach staff are so considerate, and we need to show them how hard we work on the field." He says this, and since they are all sincere players, young friends may be like that, but it seems to motivate us to work as hard as these guys on the field.