Written before the opening: Because Kim's English word is KIM, Jin Yingquan's nickname in the Evergrande team is "KIM", and Guangzhou fans are accustomed to calling him "Xiao Jin". It is certainly inappropriate to call Kim Young-kwon "Little Kim" now, and now Kim Young-kwon is already the captain of South Korea. In 2013, when Kim Young-kuen joined Evergrande, he was still a popular student in South Korea, kim young-kwon also had excellent performances in the Japanese league after the World Youth Championships," and became a person that Evergrande looked up to, in the blink of an eye, it was seven years, because I wanted to write a series of articles for 20 people, I also contacted Kim Young-kuen in Japan through Kim Young-kuen's brokerage company, talking about seven years Obviously Kim Young-kuen is also very sighing "Seven years is really too fast, seven years in Guangzhou is the best seven years of my career, this time is so wonderful, I got a room full of trophies, This memory will last forever. "Kim Young-kwon is not good at words, and it may be better to express it through words, and looking at these words, it may be his inner monologue." Regarding KIM, the most he hears from the team members is that he is very serious, so he may joke moderately after training, otherwise he will be a little more real. I didn't interview him much, but I didn't interview him once in 2013, and after that I did an interview at the Beginning of 2019 at the Asian Cup as the captain of the rival South Korean team. Although the interview is not much, but the meeting will always talk for a while, the 2015 Asian Cup I was stationed in Canberra, the Korean team warmed up before the game, saw me on the sidelines, Kim Young-kwon stopped the warm-up and deliberately ran over and shook his hand and bowed, although the game had nothing to do with the Chinese team, but it did make me a long-term reporter who ran Evergrande a little "superiority". When I was in the mixed zone, he and Jang Hyun-so, who was playing at R&F at the time, gave me special "care", and in the 2019 Asian Cup, I happened to meet Kim Young-kwon in the mall in Abu Dhabi, although it was not so smooth, but the topics were clear and very happy. Agreed with him on this, and the post-match interview with the Chinese team to be a little more personal, the result kim was drawn in the urine test, the result waited for nearly two hours finally waited for captain Kim, the empty mixed area and even the staff were withdrawn, at my request to leave us a light, so Kim Young-kwon cooperated with me to complete a twenty-minute exclusive interview, for me this is a special memory about KIM, shortly after this game Kim Young-kwon announced that he joined Osaka Gamba to end his Evergrande career!
Talking about the past, Kim Young-kwon told me in his email that he was most impressed by the 2013 match against Seoul FC and the AFC Champions League champion, and indeed that game and championship will probably be a point that evergrande players will never forget in their lives! Speaking of his teammates, Kim said that the most impressed was Conca, who he believes has all the qualities to be a good player, while the Chinese player he mentioned Zhang Linpeng, who said that Zhang Linpeng was very hardworking and very decisive and powerful. When it comes to leaving Evergrande, Kim Young-kuen also regrets that he has not had a formal farewell to the fans in Guangzhou after leaving in a hurry. "Guangzhou is a very special city for me, my two children were born in Guangzhou, which is a very special city for my family." Speaking of Guangzhou, Kim Young-kuen mentioned the most is special, indeed seven years in Guangzhou Kim Young-kuen can be described as a winner in life, both in value and reward has made him a winner. Kim Young-kwon also sent a recent photo of him and his two children at home in Japan, saying that the children had been simple Chinese, left for nearly a year, and now they have somewhat forgotten, but China and Guangzhou will be deeply imprinted in their minds.
Now that kim young-kwon is in japan because of the epidemic and has no training days, he is staying at home himself, and he wants to tell the fans in Guangzhou that he is now doing well in Japan. In Evergrande's medal honor team uniform, Kim Young-kwon is very good to put in his home in South Korea, he wants to go back to The Tianhe Stadium again, but may step into the identity of the opponent again, but he is still looking forward to returning to Tianhe and saying a formal farewell to the fans in Guangzhou. I asked him for a personal photo, want to show the Chinese fans and friends what he looks like now, KIM casually took a big picture with his mobile phone, his hair was completely dyed golden, the red stripe T-shirt was a bit hip hop and a little trendy, how did KIM go to Japan and how did he become that "little gold" again?
Old Gold or Little Gold?
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<h1>1. Hong Mingfu-style defensive leader</h1>
When it comes to the most outstanding foreign aid in evergrande team history, Conca and Paulinho are probably the two names mentioned more by the outside world; but to say that evergrande has played the longest foreign aid in the history of the team, at least so far is Kim Young-kwon. Unlike his eldest brother Zhao Yuanxi, who already had a lot of prestige in international football before he came, when Kim Young-kwon came to China, I am afraid that most Chinese fans did not know who he was.
Born in Jeonju, Kim Young-kwon did not become a professional until the age of 20. However, before that, during his college years, Kim Young-kwon not only entered the Korean indoor five-a-side national team, but also played in the 2009 World Youth Championships for the Korean national youth team. It was from entering the South Korean national youth team that Kim Young-kwon met his mentor Hong Myung-fu, who had a profound impact on his future career. Due to the outstanding results of the team, Hong Mingfu not only completed an Olympic cycle, but also became the head coach of the South Korean national team in the summer of 2013. In Hong Mingfu coaching south Korea's 89-year-old group of players from the beginning of the World Youth Championships to the Olympic Games, and then to the future World Cup, Kim Young-kwon are All of Hong Mingfu's concubines; Kim Young-kwon, Ji Sung-yong, Park Jong-woo, and Hong Justi, the players who won the Olympic bronze medal, are also known as "Hong Mingfu's children".
With the promotion of Hong Myung-fu, Kim Young-kwon has gone very smoothly from the backbone of the South Korean national youth defense to the south Korean National Olympic Team to the backbone of the South Korean national team; but in the growth process of the Korean national brand, Kim Young-kwon has also encountered ups and downs, which is mainly related to personality.
Kim Young-kwon looks a little introverted and low-key, but he also has a quick-tempered side. At the 2010 Asian Games, he had frequent clashes with Iranian strikers and had a "violent temper" with his opponents. In the national team during the Choi Kang-hee period, he publicly expressed his dissatisfaction due to dissatisfaction with the position arrangement. In the first game after Shin Tae-yong took over the South Korean national team, Kim Young-kwon, as the captain of the team, had friction with the fans. And his mood swings have also had at Evergrande, in the second leg of the 17-year FA Cup semi-final, Scolari replaced Kim Young-kwon to play at the back, and as a result, he was punished for a vicious foul on Oscar not long after he went up.
But people always have a positive and negative side, in Kim Young-kwon's career, most of the time, he is a very stable central defender; his technical characteristics are very similar to his master Hong Mingfu, absolutely not fast, the turning speed is not fast, but the defense is fierce and the consciousness is more outstanding, and there is a very good ability to play the ball. In the first few years of Evergrande, Feng Xiaoting went to stare at people, kim young-kwon dragged behind protection; and in the South Korean national team, whether Kim Young-kwon and Hong just played two center-backs, or played double center-backs with Kim Ki-hee, Jang Hyun-so, and Kim Hyun-jae, Kim Young-kwon is the commander responsible for delay protection and commanding the defense line.
<h1>2. The change in positioning led to Kim Young-kuen opening and leaving low at Evergrande</h1>
Talking about Lippi's favorite disciple when he was coaching in China, some people will say that it is Zheng Zhi, whether in Evergrande or in the national team, Lippi trusts Zheng Zhi very much, even if he returns to Italy, Lippi still calls Zheng Zhi a great captain. Some people say that Lippi likes Axon very much, lippi likes Zhang Linpeng, but to say that Lippi's favorite player in China should be Kim Young-kwon;
Although it is a reinforcement during the Lee Jang-so period, Kim Young-kuen has never played for Lee Jang-so, and his first coach at Evergrande was Lippi, and it is also said that Kim Young-kwon's reinforcement was also informed of Lippi, who was about to take office. When Lippi first took over Evergrande, because Pauloon was the last choice of the team's foreign aid group, in fact, the only regular center-backs that Lippi could use at that time were Feng Xiaoting and Zhang Linpeng. In Lippi's first year of receiving Evergrande, he promoted Tang Dechao, and after fixing Zheng Zhi at the back, he tried to pull Zheng Zhi back to play center back in individual games; in addition, Sun Xiang, Qin Sheng, and Zhao Yuanxi had all played at center back that season. In August 2012, when Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng and Tang Dechao, three full-card centre-backs, successively hung up their free cards, Kim Young-kwon, who had just finished playing the Olympic Games, was immediately put into the starting lineup by Lippi.
I did not think that Kim Young-kuen was quickly integrated in Evergrande, even if Evergrande was eliminated by Etihad in the AFC Champions League that year, and the league championship winning process was also very thrilling, but Kim Young-kwon played a tactical role in the core of the defense when he first arrived. It was Kim Young-kwon who got Lippi's approval, and in the winter of 13 years, Evergrande successively made up Zhao Peng and Yi Teng in the center-back position, which is also the reason why Lippi dared to fix Zhang Linpeng on the right.
It seems that Feng Xiaoting and Kim Young-kwon are both technical and conscious center-backs, Kim Young-kwon's style of play is more tough, but Lippi is very clear about the division of labor between the two, that is, Feng Xiaoting stares at people, Kim Young-kwon drags on; one of the reasons why Lippi made such an arrangement in the first place is that Kim Young-kwon showed better leadership in the back line at that time, and we also saw Kim Young-kwon drag at the end to make up the pot for his teammates.
However, after Lippi left, Kim Young-kwon's position at Evergrande began to waver. Since 2015, Kim Young-kwon has been plagued by injuries. After experiencing the setback of not winning the Asian Cup that season, Feng Xiaoting's mentality became more mature, and the temperament of the game was completely different. Mei Fang after playing the Asian Cup, self-confidence also rose, coupled with Mei Fang's confrontation and air defense capabilities just to a certain extent to make up for Evergrande's air defense shortcomings, that most of the year Feng Xiaoting and Mei Fang was Evergrande's main center-back configuration; after Scolari took over, Kim Young-kwon, who returned from injury, could only play left-back until Mei Fang was injured in the back, and Kim Young-kwon won back the main center-back.
And in the 2016 season, although Feng Xiaoting and Jin Yingquan were the first choice of Evergrande center-backs at the beginning, but that year due to Evergrande's left-back constantly injured, so in some games, Scolari will let Jin Yingquan play left, Mei Fang and Feng Xiaoting play double center-back; and that year Feng Xiaoting and Jin Yingquan have encountered injury problems, the whole season is basically Mei Fang, Kim Young-kuen, Feng Xiaoting in the center-back position random three-choice two background, Feng Xiaoting became Evergrande's defensive core, Whether it is Mei Fang or Kim Young-kwon with him, they have become staring center-backs. In a way, Kim Young-kwon's 16-year serious injury is directly related to the change in positioning, when his confrontation ability is far inferior to Hulk, but he is playing with his life and he has fallen into a serious injury.
In the period when Kim Young-kuen was seriously injured, it just so happened that the Chinese Super League introduced a three-foreign aid policy; because Evergrande has a main line of defense of the Chinese national team all year round, so that Evergrande uses more foreign aid quotas in the frontcourt, Kim Young-kuen's playing time in Evergrande has been greatly affected, and after being revoked in the second half of 18 years, it is actually doomed that he and Evergrande will not continue.
<h1>Getting out of the haze of injuries and not being able to go to Europe has always been Kim Young-kwon's regret</h1>
Kim Young-kwon has been affected by injuries since 2015, and when he was constantly plagued by minor injuries, his positioning on the court gradually changed to a more confrontational staring center-back, perhaps his injury in September 2016 was not accidental; that injury once kept him away from the field for nearly a year, coupled with the introduction of the Chinese Super League 3 foreign aid policy, so that his playing time was greatly affected, his state was also greatly affected. Even though Shin Tae-yong gave Kim Young-kwon the captain's armband at the beginning of his tenure, and after Kim Young-kwon and the fans had friction, he still recruited him to the national team to play warm-up matches, but when he played the warm-up matches of Russia and Serbia in October and November 2017, a series of up-and-grab mistakes directly led the team to lose the ball, Shin Tae-yong once killed Kim Young-kwon and did not take him to play that year's East Asian Final Four.
In the 2018 season, due to Alan's suspension, Kim Young-kwon was given a stable playing time at one point; however, Kim Young-kwon did not come up with a brilliant performance during that time, and Shin Tae-yong chose to take Kim Young-kwon to play the World Cup is a controversial choice. But from the result backwards, Shin Tae-yong was right; even if the South Korean team did not complete the goal of group breakout in the 18-year World Cup, Kim Young-kwon had a good performance in three games; whether it was facing the tall Swedes, or facing the small fast spirit of Mexico, and the German team's group of players who started at tens of millions of euros, when Kim Young-kwon made key breaks in the backcourt again and again, and broke through the German team's goal, Shin Tae-yong said that this was the best Kim Young-kwon he had ever seen; when Kim Young-kwon cried after playing Germany, This announces that the best Kim Young-kwon is back, perhaps a redemption from 4 years ago.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the team of the South Korean team was entirely based on the group of Korean 89-year-old players brought by Hong Mingfu that year. Even if Hong just went to Play in Europe at that time, but in the division of defense, Hong Mingfu still continued the idea of coaching the South Korean National Youth and the South Korean National Olympic Games, Hong just happened to be staring at the center back, kim Young-kwon dragged behind the protection. At that time, Lippi also said that he would not let go of a single player during his tenure, but Kim Young-kwon still hoped to use the World Cup as a springboard to go to Europe. However, Kim Young-kwon in Brazil played very badly, and in the South Korean team's 2-4 defeat to Algeria, two goals conceded were directly related to Kim Young-kwon's mistakes; even if Hong Myung-fu resigned after returning home, when South Korean fans directly threw the egg at Kim Young-kwon's feet, Kim Young-kwon's mentality and state had already fluctuated significantly.
The poor performance of the World Cup in 14 years led to Kim Young-kwon not getting too many invitations from Europe, and KIM, who originally planned to land in the Premier League, chose to renew his contract with Evergrande in 15 years. After the World Cup in the summer of 2018 had an excellent performance and was revoked by Evergrande, Kim Young-kwon also tried to go to Europe to realize his football ideals. However, some wishes are destined to be difficult to achieve after missing out, which will be a regret of his career. Looking back on the past, Jin Yingquan, who joined Evergrande in 2013, deserves his place in Evergrande's group of heroes!