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Ansan OK Financial Group Okman could end the calendar year with zero wins in December with a record that stands in stark contrast to their preseason performance. Monday’s 3-0 loss to the Incheon Korean Air Jumbos was Okman’s sixth loss in a row, and it was the fifth-straight time the Ansan side had lost a game 3-0.   The results from the past six games tell a clear story, that Okman’s preseason glory is now a thing of the past. Okman won the Korea Volleyball Federation (KOVO) Cup — a preseason tournament — for the very first time in August, but they have since failed to keep up. Okman’s preseason success was partly thanks to head coach Masaji Ogino, who joined the team in the summer ahead of the KOVO Cup.  
Ogino’s style of play allowed some players to shine during the KOVO Cup, including outside hitter Shin Ho-jin, who scored 34 points alone in the preseason tournament final. The Japanese head coach, however, seems to have lost his magic touch as his players have failed to shine on the court in recent games. Shin scored just 16 points in the past two games, and the team’s attack overall has been lacking due to key setter absences. Regular setter pick Kwak Myoung-woo, who led the team’s attack in the early days of the season, cannot play due to injury, and another setter, Lee Min-kyu, also injured his leg.   
Setter Park Tae-seong, 22, played in Monday’s game against the Jumbos, but the attack seemed bereft of cohesion.  
 
Okman’s recent struggle have pulled them away from the league title race.  The point gap with league leaders Seoul Woori Card Woori Won has become much wider in the past month. Woori Won were at the top with 27, and Okman was in third place at 22 as of Dec. 3. Woori Won have added 17 points since then and sit at the top with 39 points, while Okman slipped down to fifth on the seven-team table with their stagnant 22.   As the 2023-24 V League season is only at its halfway mark — the regular season runs from Oct. 14 through March 17 next year — there is still enough time for Okman to bounce back and recreate their preseason glory.  If Okman win the league title this season, it will be their first-ever league victory, which would also allow the Ansan side to compete in the championship.   The championship is a postseason tournament in which the league winners and playoff winners compete to be crowned champions. Okman has won the title twice, in 2015 and 2016. Okman’s league victory this season would also end the Jumbos’ three-year dominance. The Incheon side have swept the league and championship titles for the past three seasons. The Jumbos have so far lived up to their title as defending champions this season, although they slipped from the top to fall to third and are now just seven points clear of fourth-place Okman. Okman will face the Jumbos again on Friday at home as they look to redeem themselves from their recent slump. 카지노사이트킹 The two sides have clashed twice so far this season, with Okman losing both games 3-0.  

V League leaders Suwon Hyundai Engineering & Construction Hillstate continued their dominance again last week with two straight wins, going five points clear at the top of the table and pulling themselves away from second-place Heungkuk Life Insurance Pink Spiders. As the race for the top position remained competitive with both Hillstate and Pink Spiders showing a strong performance, the Suwon side had to maintain their momentum to stay at the top.   Wednesday’s game against third-place GS Caltex Seoul Kixx at home turned out to be a fierce contest that forced the game into a fifth set, but Hillstate won the deciding last set for a final score of 3-2.   

The victory gave Hillstate two points. In the V League, the margin of victory determines how many points a team takes from the game, with a 3-0 or 3-1 win earning three points. If the score ends 3-2, the winning team takes two points and the losing team also earns one point from the game.Hillstate then added three more points on Sunday with a huge 3-0 victory against the Daejeon Jung Kwan Jang Red Sparks at home, cutting the Red Sparks’ four-game winning streak. Sunday’s victory marked Hillstate’s fifth straight win in the league. The Suwon side have shown a convincing performance so far this season that could allow them to secure the league title that they missed last season.Defending champions Pink Spiders also secured three points last week with 온라인카지노 a 3-1 victory over Gimcheon Korea Expressway Hi-Pass on Friday.  
 

American baseball legend Randy Johnson’s daughter Willow Johnson has joined V League team Heungkuk Life Insurance Pink Spiders, the club announced Monday. Randy Johnson is one of the best players in MLB history, having played for six teams, including the Seattle Mariners and Arizona iamondbacks.   His daughter Willow Johnson, 25, replaces the Pink Spiders’ Jelena Mladjenovic, as V League rules stipulate that each team can only have one foreign player, in addition to one Asia Quota pick. Johnson plays as an opposite spiker and joins the Incheon side from the Athletes Unlimited Volleyball (AUV) in the United States. The AUV is a pro league in which players switch teams every week of a season, rather than committing themselves to one team. Johnson also played for Turkish team Nilufer Belediyespor in the 2020-21 season after graduating from the University of Oregon. Mladjenovic exits after a relatively unimpressive run this season.  
 
The Bosnian opposite hitter was the Pink Spiders’ most impactful player during the 2022-23 season, scoring 821 points to end the regular season as the team’s top scorer and the third top scorer in the league.   She had failed to repeat that strong performance this season, scoring 501 points in 24 league games, even falling behind now-ex teammate Kim Yeon-koung with 520 points.  Johnson will have some work to do with her teammates once the league restarts next week, as the Incheon side ceded the top position to Suwon Hyundai Engineering & Construction Hillstate in December. The Pink Spiders have been unable to close the gap with Hillstate since then, falling eight points behind the league leaders to sit in second place as of Monday.   As the regular 2023-24 season runs through March, however, there is still plenty of time for the Pink Spiders to snatch the top spot and defend the league title. Johnson may make her V league debut on Jan. 30 when the Pink Spiders face Gimcheon Korea Expressway Hi-Pass.  
No V League games are on tap for this week due to the all-star game at Incheon Samsan World Gymnasium in Incheon on 스포츠토토존 Saturday, which will feature 40 players selected by the fan vote and a committee of experts.

Jayden Kim, a Korean-born, Australian-based son of a longtime major league scout, has signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates signed the 17-year-old shortstop prospect to a minor league deal last Thursday. Kim’s father, David Kim, told Yonhap News Agency that the Pirates had made a good offer and his son decided to pounce on that opportunity.T he senior Kim noted that his son, whose Korean given name is Joon-seok, is taking “the exact opposite career path” compared to the father’s playing career .David Kim, 52, was born and raised in Australia but later played professional baseball overseas in Korea, with the LG Twins in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO).Jayden was born in Korea and started out in Little League here. He played in Korea through middle school and then moved to Australia in 2021. He will now be playing pro ball in the United States. “”From the very beginning of my baseball journey, my goal was always to become a professional baseball player,” Kim was quoted as saying on the website of Baseball Australia, the national governing body of the sport Down Under. “I worked towards that dream from a young age, and as I gained attention from scouts and teams, it became evident that I could turn this dream into a reality.”

Jayden took huge steps after moving to Australia. He played for Victoria at the under-16 national championships in 2022 and then for the under-18 team in 2023. He played on Australia’s U-18 World Cup team in 2022 as one of the youngest players then and made the team for the same tournament in 2023. Andrew Riddell, Baseball Australia’s player development manager, said the teen prospect drew the attention of scouts immediately after arriving in Australia. “His defensive skills and ability to make routine plays consistently on the world stage is well beyond his years and his progression offensively since he came to Australia has seen him make huge strides as an all-round baseball player,” Riddell said. “He is loved by all his teammates and coaches and has really fit into the Australian culture well which is a credit to him as I know that was one of his worries when he moved from Korea .”Kim credited his time spent in Australia with being “pivotal in shaping my journey.” “Transitioning to baseball in Australia from playing only in Korea provided me with a completely new environment, people and language,” Kim said. “Adapting to these changes while learning a different style of baseball expanded my knowledge of the game. “David Kim had worked for the Minnesota Twins for over two decades until last year, and joined the Pirates earlier this year .Mindful of potential criticism that he might have played a role in his son’s signing, David Kim insisted that the Pirates 슬롯게이밍 first took interest in Jayden since before the father started working for the organization.

All 10 clubs in the top Korean baseball league stayed under the salary cap imposed for the first time in 2023, data showed Wednesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) had set a salary cap for the 2023-2025 period at 11,420,935,939 won ($8.79 million). It was 120 percent of the average of the combined annual salaries for the 40 highest-paid players on each club for the 2021 and 2022 seasons, excluding rookies and foreign players. The league implemented the cap for the first time to ensure a level playing field .According to the figures released Wednesday, the Doosan Bears had the largest payroll at nearly 11.2 billion won, followed by the SSG Landers at a little over 10.8 billion won. The Korean Series champions LG Twins ranked third at a shade under 10.8 billion won. The Kiwoom Heroes were dead last in spending with 6.4 billion won. They also finished last in the standings with a record of 58-83-3 (wins-losses-ties).

The first-time violator of the payroll must pay 50 percent of the amount by which its payroll exceeded the cap. A repeat offender will be fined the same amount of money that exceeds the cap and that team will fall nine slots in the first round of the following year’s rookie draft. For the third offense and beyond, teams must pay 150 percent of the amount that went over the cap and drop nine spots in the next year’s draft. Most of the clubs who wanted the salary cap in the first place are now believed to be pushing for an increase in the cap .Per sources, seven out of 10 clubs are in favor of raising the cap, while two teams are against it and one team remains undecided. Emerging from some pandemic-interrupted seasons, the KBO posted its third-largest attendance figure ever with 8.1 million fans. Most teams have more money to spend now than in the years past, but are being held back by their cap .The salary cap discussion is expected to dominate the first 카지노사이트킹 board of directors meeting of 2024 in January, involving club CEOs

Wolverhampton Wanderers have announced their new deal with Korean international Hwang Hee-chan, keeping him on board until 2028 with an option for an extra year. The deal was first reported by Italian football journalist Fabrizio Romano early last week and then confirmed by Wolves head coach Gary O’Neil last Friday, before the club made it official Thursday (England local time).Hwang leads the Wolves this season with a career-high eight goals in the league and nine goals in all competitions. He is sixth overall in the Premier League in goals. Hwang left Germany’s RB Leipzig to join the Wolves on loan in the 2021-22 season. In January 2022, the Wolves exercised the option in Hwang’s loan deal to sign him to a permanent deal in July that same year and keep him on board until 2026.The new deal will take the 27-year-old well into his 30s at Molineux. “I’m really happy to stay at Wolves. I’m enjoying playing here and enjoying everything, life and football,” Hwang was quoted as saying on the club’s website. “I have very good teammates and players, and everything here is amazing. I just want to keep playing well and I’m ready to give everything. “Hwang thanked his teammates — calling them “good friends and good brothers” — for helping him score nine goals so far this season, and said he is not about to slow down.

“I’m not satisfied just with the new contract. Sometimes, I’m talking about our ambition with some players and we have the same ambition,” he said. “I have more responsibility to win and I’m ready to fight for team.” Matt Hobbs, Wolves’ sporting director, said Hwang has “always given everything for the club” since his arrival, through his share of ups and downs. “Now, the fans are really appreciating what he’s doing on the pitch. He’s scoring goals and is an important part of Gary’s team,” Hobbs said. “It’s fully deserved for what he’s doing on and off the pitch .”On deciding to award Hwang with the extension, Hobbs said, “Form always dominates these sorts of decisions, but Hee-chan has bought into the club. He loves the area, and you can see the love he has for the fans. This fits really nicely and gives us some longevity with him on a longer contact, being such an important player for us.” He added, “It shows that good players want to be here, during what’s probably not been the smoothest time for the football club, going back to last season. But good players can see what’s going on at Compton and what we’re trying to build. We’re resetting the club and 온라인카지노 moving forward again, and they want to be part of that project.

Korea will take on Iraq in their final tuneup match befre the top Asian men’s football tournament in January, 2024, officials said Friday. The Iraq Football Association announced on its official Facebook page that the match between 23rd-ranked Korea and 63rd-ranked Iraq will be played on Jan. 6, 2024 in the United Arab Emirates. It will be nine days before Korea’s first Group E match at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup in Qatar. Coached by Jurgen Klinsmann, Korea will travel to Abu Dhabi on Jan. 2, 2024 to set up training camp ahead of the AFC tournament .An official with the Korea Football Association (KFA) told Yonhap News Agency that the two sides had to exchange one final document to confirm the fixture and that it would make the official announcement later in the day.

Korea have eight wins, 12 draws and two losses against Iraq so far. The Taegeuk Warriors prevailed 3-0 in their most recent meeting in November 2021, during the final round of the Asian World Cup qualifying tournament. Coached by Jurgen Klinsmann, Korea are riding a five-match winning streak, during which they have scored 19 goals and conceded zero .Iraq have just one loss in their past six matches. In January this year, Iraq won the Arabian Gulf Cup, a biennial competition for the eight members of the Arab Gulf Cup Football Federation, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Iraq will play in Group D at the Asian Cup. If Korea win Group E and Iraq finish in second place in Group D, they will clash in the round of 16.There are six groups of four at the AFC tournament. The top two teams from each group, along with the four best third-place nations, will advance to the knockouts. Korea will try to win their first Asian Cup since 1960.Klinsmann will announce his 26-man squad in Seoul on Thursday. The team will depart for Abu Dhabi on Jan. 2, 2024 for training 스포츠토토존 camp. Following the Iraq match, Korea will travel to Qatar on Jan. 10, 2024.