Professional volleyball women’s IBK Industrial Bank main setter Kim Ha-gyeong (27) met a strong competitor. Kim Ha-kyung, who was reborn as a starting player under the strict guidance of coach Kim Ho-cheol last season, is about to compete with Thai national team setter Phonpun Gedpard (30).
Kim Ha-kyung grew up under 카지노사이트the guidance of coach Kim, who was from the 2022-2023 season. Coach Kim pursued low and fast volleyball, and Kim Ha-gyeong also mastered low and fast toss.
As a result, Kim Ha-gyeong succeeded in tossing 10.243 per set this season, ranking third in the set category following Hyundai Construction Kim Da-in (11.021) and KGC Ginseng Corporation Yeom Hye-seon (10.885).
Kim Ha-kyung was unable to get a chance to compete in the 2019-2020 season due to Lee Na-yeon and Cho Song-hwa in the 2020-2021 season, but suddenly took the lead after Cho Song-hwa left in November 2021. Kim Ha-gyeong, who struggled in the early stages, improved rapidly as she received intensive guidance after Kim Ho-chul took over as coach.
As a result, Ha-kyung Kim seemed to have secured a starting position in the 2023-2024 season, but unwelcome news came from the Asian Quarter Draft.
IBK nominated Thai national setter Phonpun Gedpard after obtaining the first choice in the 2023 Korean Volleyball Federation Women’s Asian Quarter Draft held on the 21st.
Phonpun is an active member of the Thailand national team and is a player who drew the attention of the Korean volleyball world by making a big success against Korea in the Volleyball Nations League last year.
Ponpun made his professional debut with Nakhon Nonthaburi, which belongs to his home league in the 2009-2010 season, and experienced overseas leagues such as Japan, Poland, and Romania. In the 2022-2023 season, he worked with Lee Da-young in Rapid Bucharest in the Romanian League. Lee Da-young is a player who was expelled from the V-League in 2021 after being named as a perpetrator of school violence along with his twin sister Lee Jae-young.
Coincidentally, Fontun’s strength is his fast and low toss. It is in line with the volleyball coach Kim Ho-cheol pursues.
Coach Kim also gave Phonpun a high score. Coach Kim commented, “We needed a player who can save the speed and height that we were looking for.”
Furthermore, coach Kim said, “The setter is a leader. It is the part that leaders should be good at making them play volleyball as they think. If you try to put it in the head of the leader, you will play rigidly. You have to be there to help,” he said. This way of respecting Fontun is quite different from the way he reprimanded and intensively instructed Kim Ha-kyung.
Coach Kim seems highly likely to appoint Phonpun as his starting pitcher. Director Kim said, “Until (Ponpun) comes in, Ha-kyung does the whole thing.” .
This remark is interpreted as the intention that Ponpun will be appointed as a starting player for a while when he returns from the Thai national team schedule. It is noteworthy whether Kim Ha-kyung, who met a formidable competitor, will be able to overcome the competition next season and regain his starting position.