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Characters |" Steel Coach "Kim Ka Soo: With a heart of love, Take China as your home

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Characters |" Steel Coach "Kim Ka Soo: With a heart of love, Take China as your home

Kim Ka-so led Jiangsu women's hand training in preparation for the 14th National Games

20 meters × 40 meters, is the area of a standard handball field.

For 9 years, more than 3,000 days and nights, every training day, Kim Jia-so from South Korea will run back and forth thousands of times on the handball training ground in China.

Characters |" Steel Coach "Kim Ka Soo: With a heart of love, Take China as your home

Kim Ka Soo on the training ground

"As long as the athletes train, Mr. Jin will run on the field for as long as possible, and there is never an exception." Lee Hae-young, Kim Ka-so's assistant, said so.

Looking at Kim Ka Soo running on the training ground, it's hard to imagine that this is a person who is about to enter the year of The Flower Armor.

As a member of the South Korean men's handball team, Kim Ka-so finished second at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and won the Beijing Asian Games in 1990. Subsequently, Kim Ka-so chose to retire as the coach of the South Korean national women's handball team, and the Korean women's hand won the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, which also made him a gold coach in the "handball world". He has served as the coach of the women's handball national team in China and New Zealand and coached in handball clubs in Taiwan, the United States and other regions and countries. As he spun around the world, Mr. Kim says he loves China the most.

Handball originated in Europe, where it is the second most popular ball sport after football. China introduced handball in the 1950s, and since its development, Chinese handball has become a strong team in Asia.

Characters |" Steel Coach "Kim Ka Soo: With a heart of love, Take China as your home

Today, Kim Ka-so has poured all his love of handball into China. From taking charge of the Chinese women's handball national team to serving as the head coach of the Jiangsu women's handball team, he has trained Zhao Jiaqin, Wei Qiuxiang, Lan Xiaoling, Qiao Ru, Jin Mengqing for China... A large number of outstanding female hand athletes, at the same time, also let the Jiangsu female hand win back one honor after another, laying the foundation for the supremacy of the Jiangsu female hand in the country.

Steely coach Kim Ka-so

"When I see the coach, my legs tremble." "On the training ground, I've never seen a coach smile." "On the pitch, his face is always flat, like steel, and he's a perfectionist, we all call him Steel Coach."

Asked what kind of coach Kim Ka-so is, the jiangsu women's team member said.

Characters |" Steel Coach "Kim Ka Soo: With a heart of love, Take China as your home

Every day, Kim Ka-so will post a countdown sign on the head coach's door

In 2002, the Jiangsu women's handball team was established in Changzhou, in order to quickly improve the level of competition, in 2004, Kim Jia-so was invited as the head coach to prepare for the 10th National Games next year. Coached by him for a year, the Jiangsu women's hand won the sixth place in the 10th National Games and completed the task of participating. Subsequently, Kim Ka-so became the head coach of the Chinese women's national team and led the team to the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. At the Doha Asian Games, Chinese women's handball won the fourth place, although it was not easy to achieve this result, but the demand for perfect Kim Jia Su was not satisfied. He blamed himself for not achieving better results, so he voluntarily resigned as head coach and returned to South Korea to coach.

Characters |" Steel Coach "Kim Ka Soo: With a heart of love, Take China as your home

Kim Tae-hyun, the eldest son of Kim Ka-so

Although he left China, his friendship with Chinese handball has never been broken.

In 2014, the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau again issued an invitation to him to take charge of the Jiangsu women's hand. At that time, Changzhou Handball Training Base in Jiangsu Province had become the only special training base in the country with the main task of cultivating professional handball talents.

"Kim Ka-so accepted the invitation without hesitation." Talking about that year, Kim Jia-so's Chinese friend, Jiangsu female team leader Yao Zhiqian clearly remembers a detail that moved him. "When talking about salary, Kim Jia-so said, 'We are friends, we make an agreement together, whoever opens the price first, the other party cannot counter-offer, otherwise it hurts feelings.'" But he insisted that I speak first, and when I opened the price, he agreed without saying a word, and only attached a condition to let him attend the IWF coaching training course once a year. ”

Since then, Kim Has not left Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, nor has he left China.

Since that year, Jiangsu women's hands have been "open and hanging" all the way, and have won 7 national championship championships, and in 2017, they won the 13th National Games championship...

Characters |" Steel Coach "Kim Ka Soo: With a heart of love, Take China as your home

In Kim Ka Soo's room, his favorite works of Chinese calligraphy hang

Steel coaches also have "around the fingers soft"

On a wall in Kim Ka Soo's office, he wrote a passage in Chinese: "For the common goal, the common dream together to shed blood and sweat together to achieve the future of handball with Chinese characteristics and Chinese handball."

Kim Ka-so regards the future of Chinese handball as his responsibility, but he owes a lot to his family for it.

"Kim Ka soo's wife is a dance sports athlete in South Korea, and in South Korea, she goes out to work and earns more than Kim Ka so, but in order to support Kim Ka Soo's love of handball, she chooses to give up her career and take care of her family." Yao Zhiqian said that in the eyes of colleagues and athletes, Kim Ka Soo is a coach who is "a little too qualified", and for so many years, most of the time his wife came to China to visit Kim Ka Soo.

"Every time shimu came, she would cook us a lot of Korean food, and shimu's spicy cabbage was particularly delicious, and every time before she left, she would make us a lot of it and put it in the athletes' canteen." Because of the epidemic, the teacher and mother have not come for more than a year. Speaking of which, I really miss the spicy cabbage made by my master and mother. Athlete Xiu Lijie talked about his master and mother, and his face was full of thoughts.

Kim Ka-so talks to reporters about his wife, and the "steel coach" will show a shy tenderness on his face. "For my lover, I failed, at most only 50 points. For so many years, we have gathered less and more, especially when the family needs a man to take on the responsibility, I am not by her side. Even after losing a game, I was in a bad mood and went home with a taut face and didn't speak, but my wife was always very supportive of me. My parents died early, and my father-in-law and mother-in-law treated me very well and knew that I was preparing for the 14th National Games in China. A few days ago, my wife told me that my mother went to pray for blessings and wished that Jiangsu women's hands could win the championship at the National Games. Listening to Kim Ka Soo talk about his family, he can hear his deepest love for his wife for his home, he integrates this love into the sport of handball, hoping to use better results to thank his family for their support.

On August 29, Kim Ka-so will lead Jiangsu women to the 14th National Games held in Xi'an. Today, he puts a countdown sign on the manager's door every day. Influenced by his father, when Kim Jia-so's eldest son had a birthday not long ago, the birthday wishes sent in the circle of friends were "I wish jiangsu women's hand games to win the championship." ”

With a love of handball, I love to make China my home

"In 2014, I graduated from college, and my mother told me that Changzhou and Busan are similar, it is very good, let me go to see, learn Chinese, and accompany Mr. Jin by the way." Kim Tae-hyun, the eldest son of Kim Ka-so, told reporters that he originally planned to return to South Korea after a few months of study Chinese, but he stayed with his father and became a scientific research coach for Jiangsu women. "When I came here, I found that China is different from what I imagined, and I have followed my father to New Zealand for a while, but I feel at home in China." Kim Tae-hyun in China for seven years Chinese has become very skilled, he loves Chinese food and he likes to travel around China with friends. Kim Tae-hyun grew up with his father to understand the game of handball, in his heart his father is an idol, and now in China with his father, Kim Tae-hyun in front of people call his father "Teacher Jin". He said that his father was more like a "good teacher", and his father loved handball as much as he loved life, and he was willing to pass on this love.

In 2019, based on Kim Ka-so's contribution to Chinese sports in Changzhou, the Changzhou Municipal People's Government awarded him the "Honorary Citizen" medal. For Kim Ka-so, this honor makes him feel more belonging.

"I went back to Korea and joked with my Korean friends that I was from Changzhou." Kim Ka-so said that more than nine years ago and after in China, let him fall in love with China, his career in China, let him give up the constant mentorship in China, he hopes that his handball coaching career and the rest of his life will also be spent in China.

Text/Tang Juan Ge Yong

Photo by Tang Juan Ge Yong