Korean Basketball Coach Ahn Jun-ho Returns Home “Ubo Manri 2028 Olympics Challenge”

Korean men’s basketball national team coach Ahn Joon-ho has vowed to lay the groundwork for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics with the stance of “Ubo Man-ri.”

The Korean men’s basketball team, led by coach Ahn Joon-ho, returned home from two away games with the Japanese national team in Tokyo, Japan, on the 5th and 7th.

It was an away game that was expected to be difficult as Japan ranked 26th in the FIBA world rankings and South Korea ranked 50th, and Japan raised its condition to the fullest ahead of the Paris Olympics, which will open at the end of this month.

However, Korea won 85-84 in the first game on the 5th, and the second game on the 7th also lost 80-88 but was relatively tight. 무료슬롯사이트

In particular, Lee Jung-hyun (Sono) scored 27 points with six 3-pointers in the first game, and he also scored 26 points in the second game, emerging as the ace of the national team.

Except for Byun Joon-hyung (Sangmu), who was born in 1996, the rest of the 11 players were all young players born in 1999-2001, and the team also earned income from this away evaluation match in Japan.

Coach Ahn Joon-ho said in an interview after returning home, “Japan is a team that goes to the Olympics, so there was a lot of training and solid organization,” adding, “We made up of young players, and although the practice period was only four days, we did our best with spirit and fighting spirit.”

Coach Ahn, who took the helm of the men’s national team in December last year, said, “The players who went on the road to Japan are the present and future of Korean men’s basketball,” and vowed, “We have not been able to go to the Olympics since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but we will move forward step by step with a mid- to long-term plan until the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.”

Coach Ahn’s contract period is until the FIBA Asia Cup finals in 2025, but he is determined to do his best to raise the international competitiveness of the men’s basketball team to the extent that he will challenge the Olympic finals.