Coach Park Joo-bong has applied for the position of head coach of the South Korean badminton team, which has pushed Japan to the top

According to Yonhap News Agency and other South Korean media reports a few days ago, South Korean coach Park Joo-bong, who has left the head coach of the Japanese national badminton team, has applied for the position of head coach of the South Korean national badminton team.

South Korean coach Park Joo-bong (right), who has left the head coach of the Japanese national badminton team, has applied for the position of head coach of the Korean national badminton team

Two candidates competed. An official from the Korea Badminton Association said, "Including Coach Park, a total of two candidates have applied for the position of head coach of the national team. We will conduct interviews and select the right person within the week. "Coach Park's contract with the Japan Badminton Association ended last month. He has previously said that he hopes to work with the Korean players in the final stage of his coaching career. ”

Born in 1964, Park Joo-bong won the men's doubles championship at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the mixed doubles silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and the doubles champion at the All England Championships and five world championships. Park Joo-bong has had a brilliant coaching career. After retiring from the game in 1996, Park Joo Bong coached the team to great success, successively coaching the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Japan.

Park Joo Bong coached the Malaysian team in 1999, during which time the Men's Doubles team Chen Chongming reached the semi-finals of the 2001 World Championships with Zou Junying, Lee Wanhua and Chung Teng Hok, and Chen Chong Chong Ming and Zou Junying were ranked No. 1 in the world for a time.

Park Joo-bong (left) has successfully brought Japan's badminton team to the top, including producing the two-time world champion Kento Momota.

Park Joo-bong once pushed the Japanese badminton team to the top. After the 2004 Athens Olympics, Park Joo-bong officially became the head coach of the Japanese team until 2024, and he brought together the top players of various clubs through a drastic reform, and formed a coaching team according to the standards of the national team.

The period from 2016 to 2019 was the peak of Park Joo-bong's coaching of the Japanese team, with a large number of celebrities such as Kento Momota, Akane Yamaguchi, Nozomi Okuhara, Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo, Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota, Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, among them, Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo won the women's doubles gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Unfortunately, the Japanese badminton team had dismal results at the Tokyo Olympics at home, and during the period, corruption was found among the staff of the Japan Badminton Association, and the budget was greatly reduced since then, and even the daily training camp of the national team was canceled, and players such as Yuta Watanabe had to participate in international competitions at their own expense, and Park Joo-bong also officially resigned after the end of the contract.