315. Choice (4)
[Ahh, it was dizzying. If I had been careful, I would have hit Vice Chairman Hyun-seong Jeong in the face.]
Hoyoung, who hit a sharp shot, focused on the game again.
There was something I really wanted to check.
‘Transcendent ball feeling.’
Although I haven’t fully realized my talent yet, it definitely feels different than before.
That feeling you get when handling the ball.
Should I say that I feel like I can achieve impossible movements?
‘I’m not sure yet.’
I wanted to use it properly in today’s game, but before I could, I was substituted in the second half.
[Woo Ho-young, who scored 2 goals and 1 assist, returns to the bench.]
[Man of the match award is a given today as well.]
The game ended with a 5-1 victory for Korea.
And as we were returning to the tunnel, Deng Fang Zhou approached us and asked to exchange uniforms.
Hoyoung readily accepted.
“Maybe this will be my last uniform.”
“huh?”
Hoyoung swallowed a bitter smile and entered the interview room.
A brief interview with the MOM selection was scheduled to be held prior to the joint press conference with coach Heo Seong-soo.
Reporter Hwang Tae-seok, who can be said to be Hoyoung’s correspondent in Korea, asked.
“congratulations. Woo Ho-young. It’s been a while since I played in the national team uniform, and I think it feels special. How are you feeling?”
“I’m sad.”
“yes?”
“I’m sad because today is the last day.”
“…?”
The completely unexpected remark filled the interview room with silence.
Hoyoung hit it and drove a wedge into it.
“As of today, I am retiring from the South Korea national team.”
“…!”
retirement.
It was a decision made after much deliberation over the past few days.
That was consistent with his statement that he would not participate in the Olympics, World Cup, Asian Cup, or Asian Games while wearing the Korean national team uniform.
It was a decision that took all of that into account.
Hoyoung thought this was much better than sitting down and getting hit first.
That was why they did not follow Mansour’s words.
And I was confident that it would work out well.
[〈Breaking News〉 Woo Ho-young suddenly announces retirement from national team]
[Woo Ho-young retired from the national team, strongly criticizing threats from the Korea Football Association and FIFA Vice President Chung Hyun-sung. Woo Ho-young expressed his stubbornness about retirement and clearly pointed out all the problems that Korean soccer currently has.] [
What on earth is this? I said it was great to have a tour of China, but what kind of banging is this? So, was that a retirement game?]
└Crazy people from the National Livestock Cooperatives Association ㅡㅡ
└So, when Hyunseong Jeong asked for help with the election campaign and he didn’t, they threatened to force him to be drafted to the national team?
└Somehow, they thought it was strange that Woo Ho-young was the only one selected. These guys are really trash. Even if it’s like this, I’ll just say I’m sorry and then cut off some of the people below me and end it roughly.
└LOL That’s right. I assure you, the Korea Agricultural Cooperatives Association will not change even after 20 years
. └I only feel sorry for Woo Ho-young. How hard would it have been for me to say I was retiring?
└It must have been difficult to handle at that age.
└Woo Hoyoung I will support you until the end. Clean up all the bad guys and definitely come back.
At first, that was the main reaction.
As waves of emotion cheering and consoling Hoyoung continued, public opinion seemed to be completely tilted to one side.
But it didn’t last long.
[〈Breaking News – Korea Football Association Chairman Chung Hyun-gyu’s official position〉]
[We, the Korea Football Association, pledge not to tell a single lie to the people. No employee of the Korea Football Association, including me, has ever threatened Woo Young. We will disclose to the media every detail of the phone call with Woo Ho-young and prove that he never said anything like that.
The reason we selected Woo Ho-young for the China match was because of the World Cup Asian qualifiers that would begin in September. Because Wooyoung is very busy, he doesn’t have many opportunities to work with the national team coach. That’s why I called it special this time. If the national team is in danger of being eliminated from the World Cup qualifiers, Woo Ho-young must be drafted urgently.
However, it is a pity that Woo Ho-young misunderstands our consideration as a threat. It is unfortunate that Woo Ho-young has retired, but we have no power to stop his decision. Therefore, as a soccer organization in Korea, we respect his decision.]
[〈Breaking News〉 FIFA Vice President Chung Hyun-seong said, “I asked him to help me with the election campaign, but I never threatened him with the issue of selection. Present all evidence if necessary. Also, even if Woo Ho-young supports the Middle East, he cannot be criticized because it is his personal values. I hope everyone respects his decision.”]
If you think about it, what they said was true.
Even though he asked me to help with the election, I never directly threatened him by linking it to being elected.
It was a moment when the tide, which had been tilting to one side, suddenly turned.
[Some soccer experts say, “This is just the foolish foolishness of an arrogant soccer player. You must never accept it. It is possible to think that selection to the national team is malicious because there is no patriotism.”]
Anti-fans who were usually anxious about not being able to catch Woo Ho-young actively came forward and clouded the atmosphere.
Afterwards, reactions to Hoyoung’s decision were polarized.
[Still, it makes no sense to retire from the national team at the age of 17. Haven’t you played 10 international matches yet? I’m going to play for the next 15 years. What are you going to do during that time?]
└Are you stupid? Of course, I will come back during the World Cup. It doesn’t seem like the Korea Agricultural Cooperatives Association will let that happen either.
└Still, you’re so irresponsible. Even though the club is everything, even if you are selected for the national team, all you have to do is play a few games a year.
└Does the country feed us? The one who made the mistake first was the Korean Livestock Cooperatives Association, so why are they criticizing Woo Ho-young?
└What if Woo Ho-young is lying?
└Look at the actions of the Korean Livestock Cooperatives and Woo Ho-young so far. You can tell that just by looking at his personality.
└Well, I don’t think there is any need to go to the World Cup. I already placed 3rd in the World Cup, so that’s okay. Since he knew that he wouldn’t be able to win the championship with the national team in the future anyway, he seemed to have washed his hands before going through all the trouble
└Woo Ho-young is not that kind of player ㅡㅡ
But the atmosphere was not very serious.
Since retirement can be reversed at any time, there was an atmosphere of belief that Hoyoung could definitely come back.
That was the reason why the Korea Football Association was able to show its courage.
There is no way a player as ambitious as Woo Ho-young would give up on the World Cup.
The leadership had no choice but to lie with Vice Chairman Chung Hyun-seong.
Hoyoung, who announced his retirement and returned to England, finally felt like a heavy burden had been lifted.
Although our image took a huge hit right away, we were still receiving a lot of advertising offers.
Meanwhile, the media play with Vice Chairman Chung Hyun-seong continued.
Hoyoung persisted until the end, accusing them of their atrocities.
There was nothing more to lose here anyway.
On the contrary, the approval rating of Vice Chairman Chung Hyun-seong, who was subject to rumors, was lowered, and the longer this incident dragged on, the worse it was for him.
I already received a call from the Korea Football Association a few days ago.
The idea was to meet, come up with a compromise, and quickly cover up the incident.
‘When I return to the national team, I will make a deal to help with the election campaign. They said they would provide convenience in the future.’
It was obvious even without looking.
However, Hoyoung had no intention of following their wishes.
‘Even if you don’t want to finish the case quickly, it will be resolved soon.’
Sooner or later, everything was going to be resolved in one fell swoop.
If only the plan currently underway with Mansour goes well.
Office of the President of the Korea Football Association in Jongno, Seoul.
Chung Hyeon-gyu, chairman of the Korea Livestock Association, and FIFA vice-president Chung Hyun-seong were sitting together.
The atmosphere was quite friendly.
“haha. This guy has a lot of guts for a young guy. “If it had been like this, it would have been so scared that it would have crawled in.”
When Jeong Hyun-gyu sarcastically commented, Jeong Hyeon-seong also laughed at him.
“retirement? Who knows what to be afraid of? “Do you think you don’t know that I’m taking action to tell you not to get selected?”
“That’s right. I just wait slowly for this to happen. If you wait anyway, it will definitely come back. “You don’t know it, but you definitely want to go to the World Cup.”
“Well, if they have an idea, they will probably try to finish it quickly. The future is so bright, but there is nothing good to be gained from being caught up in such an unpleasant incident. But that doesn’t mean you can naturalize.”
Although he told the media that he respected Woo Ho-young’s decision, he had no intention of letting him go.
I was planning to bring him back to the national team somehow.
Woo Ho-young was a resource that could not be obtained no matter how much I paid.
“We need to wake up now if we want to maintain control.”
“Yes, of course.”
Everything was working as expected.
Now all I had to do was alternately give carrots and sticks to Woo Ho-young and wait for him to bow his head and come back.
“I have spoken to Woo Ho-young’s agent, so he will contact me soon. “I guess they understood because I made this much concession.”
Everything was going smoothly.
But that was right then.
Knock knock.
A knocking sound coming from outside the chairman’s office.
The managing director came in hurriedly and spoke in an embarrassed voice.
“Look at the article here.”
“But what?”
“Well… I still don’t know how this happened…”
“This person is this.”
Jeong Hyeon-gyu, who took the executive director’s cell phone, frowned as soon as he saw the screen.
“huh?”
“But what?”
Next was Vice Chairman Jeong Hyun-seong’s turn.
Perhaps in a hurry to wait, I took my cell phone and checked foreign articles.
[Allegations of corruption by FIFA President Muhammad bin Hammam, Chairman of the Asian Football Confederation, Blatter]
[According to the claim by Asian Football Confederation Chairman Bin Hammam, Chairman Blatter bribed FIFA executive committee members to ensure that South Africa was selected as the host country for the 2010 World Cup. It was claimed that it had been delivered. It is said that in the process, various evidence was submitted, saying that specific circumstances were captured that Secretary-General Jerome Valcke was in charge of Blatter’s errands as a key figure. Accordingly, Swiss judicial authorities intensified their corruption investigation and reported Chairman Blatter.]
[Circumstances were discovered that Chairman Blatter paid 5 million euros to the Irish Football Association to silence the referee during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. President Bin Hammam claimed that Ireland also accepted it and used it to build the Aviva Stadium.]
[The 2010 World Cup in South Africa even sparked a controversy over Switzerland’s mistrial… Turns out it was all corruption]
[Chairman Blatter: “Everything is absurd.” No lies. “This is someone’s political maneuvering.”]
[If FIFA President Blatter resigns, there is a very high possibility that President Bin Hammam will be elected as the next president… At the same time, interest in President Bin Hammam’s naturalization policy reform plan is growing rapidly]
[Chairman Bin Hammam’s plan to reform naturalization policy is very high. Naturalization relaxation policy – reform to allow one-time naturalization with the opposite nationality only for ‘mixed race people (applicable to parents to grandparents)’ or ‘multinational families (applicable to parents to grandparents)’… In European countries where the threshold is too high A policy aimed at frustrated soccer talents… However, naturalization is not possible if you participate in more than two World Cups or Continental Championships]
As soon as Chairman Blatter’s scandal broke out of nowhere, various articles poured out.
However, it was not something that Vice Chairman Chung Hyun-seong, his election rival, was happy about.
“for a moment. “Woo Ho-young’s maternal grandfather was Spanish, right?”
“That’s right….”
“….”
In other words, if everything came true as the article said, Woo Ho-young would be given a huge weapon after retirement.
And that was right then.
Jiing-.
I was already about to call, but I got a call from Giuliano Rucci at just the right time.
“Hello.”
However, he didn’t even reply properly and got straight to the point.
-Our client says he is carefully considering naturalization.
The reason for naturalization was the tyranny of Chairman Chung Hyun-gyu and FIFA Vice President Chung Hyun-seong.
In other words, it was only a matter of time before all the arrows came back to them.
Jeong Hyeon-seong, who roughly grasped the situation, quickly answered.
“Let’s meet and talk.”
-First of all, I need to receive a public apology.
“Huh…”
It was the moment when the initiative passed to Hoyoung.
But there was no reason to get involved with them anymore.
A new era.
And a new path lay before Hoyoung’s eyes.