The professional basketball team in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, underwent twists and turns until its re-establishment as the Goyang Sono last year. The team's headquarters changed and the parent company changed twice. There is one thing that has not changed at Sono, which experienced turbulence. This is Kim Kang-sun, a 38-year-old Sono "one-club man" and power analysis coach. Kim, who retired from his professional career last season, will take his first step as a leader this year.메이저사이트

Coach Kim will participate as a coach in the Sono training camp, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from the 11th. "I started because basketball was fun, but I've played basketball with one team so far," he told reporters at a gymnasium in Taipei on the 12th.

In the 2009 draft, Kim was drafted eighth in the first round by the Daegu Orions (the predecessor of Goyang Sono). He is a franchise star who has played for the same team for 16 years, but changed his uniform three times. In 2011, the team moved to Goyang, and in 2022, the team was sold and changed its name to Goyang Carrot. Even Carrot suffered an unprecedented situation of being expelled from the KBL due to poor management of its parent company, Day One. Last year, the Daemyung Sono Group re-founded Goyang Sono, and the team revived.

Coach Kim, who was the captain during the team's most difficult time, contributed to the team's reconstruction by taking charge of the bad things. He visited the National Assembly press conference last year to urge the team to normalize as the team's situation became difficult due to Day One's overdue wages.

Coach Kim said, "I've tried everything that others can't do while I've been away from the National Assembly, changing my team, changing my hometown, and changing my name," but added, "I'm grateful that I can continue to play basketball."

At Sono, Kim Kang-sun is preparing for the new season as a coach. "It feels different to be the youngest in the coaching staff after being the oldest in the team," he said. "Players who used to call me hyung were coaches at first, but now they are getting used to it."

Now, Kim takes a step back from the court and looks at the game from the perspective of the leader. He is in charge of "strategic analysis coach" who analyzes the video clips of players' matches and matches the color of the team. "I am playing the role of cutting and analyzing the defense part in the practice game video and setting the framework that coach Kim Seung-ki pursues through meetings with players," Kim said. "At first, when I saw players playing, I felt like I wanted to work out, too. I feel comfortable because I don't work out anymore."

Coach Kim said, "I have had a dream of becoming a leader since I was young," adding, "I'm in the learning stage now, but I hope I can learn more and make my own basketball."

Recalling Coach Kim's professional debut season, he laughed, "In 2009, I was very young and just enjoyed basketball, but I've played basketball since then." "When the team came up from Daegu to Goyang, I thought I wanted to be a franchise player," he said. "I'm just grateful that you let me go to the end of this team."