With the Spring Festival approaching, an intriguing thing happened at LCK next door to LPL. That is, this season DRX head coach Kim Jung-so was suddenly removed from the DRX roster by the DRX official. At the same time, for this matter, Coach Kim Jung-so also said, "It is not his will to be removed from the DRX list, and he will publicly express his position in the near future." Judging from the speech of Coach Kim Jung-so, it seems that the departure of DRX this time seems to be forced to leave.
Speaking of Coach Kim, I believe that LPL fans are not strangers. As IG's head coach in the 2018 season, he led the IG team to win the global finals that year, becoming the first LPL coach to win the world finals at that time. That year was also the peak of Coach Kim's coaching career.
Since he became the coach of the world champion, after the end of that season, Coach King naturally rose in both value and fame. In the 2019 season, Coach Kim left IG and returned to LCK as a coach for DWG. In the 2019 season, DWG successfully reached the global finals, although it was stopped in the quarterfinals, DWG did break through its team history. And Coach Kim has once again added an honor to his coaching career.
In the 2020 season, Coach Kim joined LCK's giant team T1. Unfortunately, in the 2020 season, Coach Kim was magically absent, and T1 missed the global finals that season. But interestingly, in the 2020 season, Coach King repeatedly pointed out that Faker had problems and put Faker on the bench. This led to a relatively large conflict between Coach Kim and T1 fans, and there were many serious things in the process. Coupled with the fact that T1's performance this season was really poor, in the end, T1 ended the cooperation with Coach Kim.
After finishing his partnership with T1, Coach King returned to the LPL in the 2021 season and coached the BLD, which was spending a lot of money to build a squad at the time. However, it is interesting that in the 2021 season, BLG is a team with "stupid money" in the eyes of more people. Because in the case of spending so much money, BLG did not play well. So, in the 2022 season, Coach Kim left the LPL again, returned to LCK and joined the current DRX. But unexpectedly, not long after the LCK Spring Games began, it was rumored that Coach Kim was forced to leave.
As of now, it is unclear why Coach Kim was forced to leave. However, from the mouth of deft, the core player of DRX, it seems that there is no relationship between Coach Kim's departure and the players. Because Deft said, "There is no discord at all(that Coach Kim was forced to leave), because it was a matter of the team, so I have nothing to say in particular, and we also suddenly knew about it, so even if we wanted to say something, it was not very clear." At the same time, Deft also said, "The players hope that the coach can come back." That is to say, Coach Kim's forced departure this time has nothing to do with the players, more is the decision of the DRX management. On the contrary, the players of DRX still hope that Coach Kim can come back to coach.
I have to say that as a former IG world champion coach, I have now ended up with the embarrassing end of being forced to leave. I believe that this Spring Festival, Coach Jin should be quite unhappy.
Dear friends, what do you think is the truth about Coach Kim's forced departure?
Finally, I wish you all a Happy Spring Festival in advance and all the best!