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Head coach of the last-place K-League team resigns
SEOUL, April 4 (Yonhap) -- Choi Soon-ho, head coach of the last-place Gangwon FC in K-League football, resigned Monday to take the fall for the winless start to the ongoing season.
The club said in a statement that Choi, a third-year bench boss, said earlier in the day that he wanted to step down, despite the team's repeated attempts to keep him on board.
Gangwon, a third-year expansion team, has lost its first four games in the season, falling to dead last at 16th place. It has given up six goals and scored none. In its first two seasons, Gangwon ranked 13th in 2009 and 12th in 2010 among 15 teams. There are 16 teams in the league this year.
Choi said he wanted to give Gangwon "a chance to change."
"We've only played four games in the K-League and there are 26 matches left," he said. "There's still plenty of chance to make the playoffs as a top-six team."
Choi, a former national team striker, previously served as the head coach for another K-League club, the Pohang Steelers, from 2001 to 2004. He spent three seasons in the second-tier National League, guiding his Ulsan Mipo Hyundai Shipbuilding team to the championships in 2007 and 2008.
This was the final year of Choi's contract. His senior assistant, Kim Sang-ho, will take over as the head coach, the club said.
The club said in a statement that Choi, a third-year bench boss, said earlier in the day that he wanted to step down, despite the team's repeated attempts to keep him on board.
Gangwon, a third-year expansion team, has lost its first four games in the season, falling to dead last at 16th place. It has given up six goals and scored none. In its first two seasons, Gangwon ranked 13th in 2009 and 12th in 2010 among 15 teams. There are 16 teams in the league this year.
Choi said he wanted to give Gangwon "a chance to change."
"We've only played four games in the K-League and there are 26 matches left," he said. "There's still plenty of chance to make the playoffs as a top-six team."
Choi, a former national team striker, previously served as the head coach for another K-League club, the Pohang Steelers, from 2001 to 2004. He spent three seasons in the second-tier National League, guiding his Ulsan Mipo Hyundai Shipbuilding team to the championships in 2007 and 2008.
This was the final year of Choi's contract. His senior assistant, Kim Sang-ho, will take over as the head coach, the club said.
