"Cold response to sluggish veteran, trying not to be left behind... I want to finish retirement well." Why Ki Sung-yueng keeps 'training'
"Cold response to sluggish veteran, trying not to be left behind... I want to finish retirement well." Why Ki Sung-yueng keeps 'training'
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The reason why Ki Sung-yueng (FC Seoul) continues to train is a challenge to prejudice.
Ki has started this season slightly different from his usual start. During the pre-season, Ki mostly worked out overseas by training with his personal trainer. As his contract with Seoul was officially terminated during the off-season training last year, he prepared alone in Australia, but it was not unfamiliar to him.
This season, however, he participated in the first off-season training in Seoul held in Hanoi, Vietnam, and boosted his physical stamina along with his teammates. With Kim Jin-soo, Jung Seung-won, Moon Seon-min, and Lee Do-han recruited in turn, he endured rigorous training by coach Kim Ki-dong, and is making all-out efforts to enhance his performance in the second training session that is continuing in Japan.
On the 4th, I met Ki Sung-yueng at a hotel in Kagoshima, Japan and talked with him.
Q)I think I lost weight?
Right. I lost about 2 kilograms. The training was too hard (laughs). There is also a management aspect.
Q)Seoul is considered a strong favorite this season?
The atmosphere is quite good. With new players in the team, expectations are bound to rise. You don't have to feel too much pressure, but you need to start the league to win. You have to follow the atmosphere and luck. You need to match many things to win. Personally, it is more important to give the impression that Seoul can do it this year than to talk about winning. We need to get recognition from people around us. That's why I think the early flow of the season is important.
Q)It's been a long time since we did the first field training together?
Last year, I rested due to injury and increased my personal exercise in the winter. It continued to winter training. I trained a lot in Vietnam, but as I got older, the recovery speed was definitely difficult. If you do it alone, you can fill in the gaps, but if you do it together, you can create diversity. There are advantages and disadvantages, and it was good in that area, and compared to last year, the pace of building your body has increased. When playing in Europe, there were many cases where you could not properly perform off-season training. In the summer, there was a national team game, and then I joined my team. When I was abroad, I did it for about three weeks and started the season. Winter training in Korea is long, so it was difficult to stay in a hotel for a long time.
Q)Jung Seung-won said, "(Ki) Sung-yong runs so well. He's born with it." 바카라사이트
They probably don't know how much I trained (laughs). I always trained a lot. I didn't rest for a long time normally. Rather than being born with it, I am investing a lot of time. When you become a veteran, you develop prejudices or cold reactions to even a little sluggishness. To overcome that, you have to prepare more, so you try to build your body well. I exercise when others are resting, and there are some sports that I couldn't usually do, but I am doing that part in the winter. I am trying not to fall behind.