MADRID, 27 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The youth football coaches of the Korean K LEAGUE closed this fourth year of collaboration with LaLiga with a “positive balance” with intensive training of coaches from their clubs’ youth teams and are looking forward to 2025 in which they plan to repeat the success of 2024.
More than 30 coaches visited Spain from November 28 to December 5 and, in addition to specialized training with LaLiga, they did an immersion with Sevilla FC, where, in addition to the work sessions, they attended Sevilla FC-CA Osasuna. A training that both entities value positively, which has allowed them to announce that 2025 will bring new collaborations for both, with intensive training and visits to Spain by their managers.
In addition to specialized sessions with LaLiga experts on the structure of grassroots football in Spain and the LaLiga Methodology, its own system that focuses on the comprehensive training of the player, the Korean coaches have also had sessions with the experts of the Sevillian club.
For several days, the club’s professionals gave training in data analysis, their own training methodology or scouting. In addition, they visited its facilities, sports city and stadium. They also attended several matches of the lower categories of both teams, in which they were able to appreciate the high level of grassroots football of the LaLiga clubs and carry out practical match analysis sessions.
The K LEAGUE has for years given enormous importance to the growth of the competition from the base through the detection and implementation of areas of improvement in its lower categories through the exchange of knowledge. For this reason, it signed an MOU with LaLiga in 2020, which was renewed at the beginning of 2024 and will extend until 2026.
In recent months, several activations have been carried out within the framework of the agreement: in September, the CEOs of the Korean clubs held knowledge-sharing sessions with the LaLiga clubs and in November it was the turn of the clubs’ senior executives, who They carried out training on business topics.
LaLiga has a very consolidated area of sports development projects, which has already accumulated 850 projects in 55 countries since its creation in 2015. Within these programs there are numerous trainings for more than 24,000 local coaches in countries such as the USA, Vietnam or India under the LaLiga Methodology and projects such as Train-the-Trainers.
The case of South Korea goes further as it is a project supported by strengthening all areas of work and creating a network of relationships between the clubs of both competitions.
The LaLiga delegate in South Korea, Sangwon Seo, stated that the agreement with the K LEAGUE is “a source of pride” for LaLiga, because it is part of “a historic alliance”, which has “a past of joint participation” in tournaments or friendly matches between their quarries. “We have made a very positive assessment of 2024, which has closed with the successful training of coaches, and we look very optimistically at actions in 2025,” he added.
For his part, the general secretary of the K LEAGUE, Yeon-SangCho, commented that the K LEAGUE is collaborating with LALIGA taking as reference “its case studies and experience” as part of its “long-term development” roadmap. . “We look forward to a lasting partnership between the two leagues in several areas, including the advancement of grassroots football development systems, the diversification of the sports business and internationalization,” he concluded.