K League that values the experience of 'average 53.9 years old → second in the world'..."When is the Korean version of Wheeler?"
K League that values the experience of 'average 53.9 years old → second in the world'..."When is the Korean version of Wheeler?"
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The average age of a Korean professional football coach is the second highest in the world, a report showed. The International Sports Institute (CIES) introduced the world's 45 league leaders on Monday (local time) to the 10 leagues with the highest average age and the 10 leagues with the lowest average age. The K-League 1 ranked the second highest overall at 53.9. Only the Saudi professional league (55.6) was older than the K-League. Japan's J1 League ranked seventh with an average age of 51.9 and Spain's Primera Liga ranked ninth with 51.6 years. Among the top eight leagues, Asia was half of the top four. Sweden's "Alsvenskan" had the lowest average age of leaders at 42.1 years. By continent, if Asia belongs to soccer with the highest average age, Nordic leagues such as Sweden, Finland, and Denmark are providing many opportunities for young leaders.
The average age of K League 1 leaders in 2021 was 48.1 years old and 51.8 years old in 2024. The average age of leaders is getting higher. It can be interpreted that a climate that values experience has settled down. According to the analysis of the age of the leaders who will lead the 12 teams at the "Hana Bank K League 1 2025," which opens on the 15th, only three people in their 40s were Chung Kyung-ho (45), Kim Eun-joong (46), Suwon FC coach, and Yoo Byung-hoon (49), and eight people were in their 50s, accounting for 75 percent. Kim Ki-dong (53), Seoul coach Lee Jung-hyo (50), Gwangju coach 50, Park Chang-hyun (59), Daegu coach Gus Poye Jeonbuk coach (58), Hwang Sun-hong (57), Pohang coach Park Tae-ha (57), Gimcheon coach Jeong-yong (56), and Ulsan coach Kim Pan-gon (56). Kim Hak-beom (65), Jeju coach, is the oldest active head coach since last year, and will visit the site in 2025. By year, seven people were born in the 1960s, four in the 1970s, and one in the 1980s.
The age gap between the oldest and the youngest was 20, a significant increase from 2021 when the age gap between the oldest and the youngest was only eight. The figure is welcome in terms of diversity among different age groups. However, the fact that the "youngest coach" is in his mid-40s suggests that he is in his mid-40s. In Europe, there is a boom in young leadership. The manager of Brighton in the English Premier League, who is linked to top-rated promising player Yoon Do-young (Daejeon), 메이저사이트 is Fabian Wheeler born in 1993, one year younger than Son Heung-min who was born in 1992. Having been active in the professional arena in Germany since his late 20s, Wheeler entered Brighton at the age of 31 by breaking the record of being the youngest EPL coach last summer. Will Steele Langs (33), Francesco Parisoli Ajax (36), Julian Nagelsmann (38), a former power analyst, and Kieran McKenna, Ipswich (39) are some of the major leaders in their 30s who are active in Europe. Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim (40) celebrated his 40th birthday last month.