A 47-year-old national hitter was the youngest?

Currently, the youngest KBO league coaches are Park Jin-man, Samsung Lions manager, and Lee Seung-yeop, Doosan Bears manager. Born in 1976, they are 47 years old this year. They are both the same age as each other who led the golden age of Korean baseball.

There can be various criteria for discussing a coach's age. However, the criteria for a surprise move are usually in their 30s. This is due to the possibility of becoming a coach younger than a player. Even if it is not something special like Choo Shin-soo, Kim Kang-min, and Oh Seung-hwan (41), some veteran players play around 40. 47 is a bit embarrassing to be considered the youngest.

However, Noh Si-hwan, who became MVP by winning the title of home run-run and RBI, is not as impressive as his predecessor. Even among the top contenders for pitching and hitting, Ahn Woo-jin (Kium), Won Tae-in (Samsung), Park Se-woong (Lotte), Choi Won-tae (LG) and Kim Hye-sung (Kium), Park Chan-ho (Kia), Moon Bo-kyung, Moon Sung-joo and Shin Min-jae (LG) are all part of the team's 30s veteran lineup. Coach Ryu Joong-il (60), who was born in 63, led the transition of generations of the national team.

In the case of baseball teams, those born in the 1980s came first among the team leaders who are in charge of managing the team's management. Sung Min-gyu (41), the former general manager of Lotte, is the youngest in history. Park Joon-hyuk (43), the new general manager of Lotte, is also the only one born in the 1980s among the 10 teams. Lim Seon-nam (45), the general manager of NC, is the youngest.

Park Joon-hyuk is the fastest-promoted team employee of the same age group. Whether it is an internal promotion of a baseball team or a retired player, it is hard to see even a general manager in his early 40s.

The record for the youngest manager in the history of professional baseball is held by current KBO President Heo Gu-yeon. He was 35 years old when he took over as manager of Cheongbo Pintos in 1986. In terms of acting manager, then-coach Cho Chang-soo was 33 in 1982, and Kiwoom senior coach Kim Chang-hyun (38) was 35 in 2020, respectively.

In the baseball world, there are fewer and fewer people working as coaches and coaches after retirement. Like coach Lee Seung-yeop, most coaches take steps step by step rather than taking the helm without skipping field experience. Excluding Choo Shin-soo, who was once mentioned as the head coach of the SSG, unconventional measures such as "Coach Heo Gu-yeon" will not be easy in the future.

As for volleyball, Tommy Tilikainen of Korean Air and Joe Trinzie of Pepper Savings Bank are the youngest players. As the coach is a foreign national team that was recruited for the pretext of acquiring advanced volleyball, his relatively younger age is less prominent. Some of the nation's top coaches include Ko Hee-jin, a head coach of Jeonggwanjang who was born in 1980, and Kwon Young-min, a coach of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) who was born in 1980. Soccer has Choi Won-kwon, coach of Daegu FC. 토토사이트

A growing number of people born in the 1980s take over as acting coaches at a time when the head coach resigned or was replaced. They include Yeom Ki-hoon (40), acting coach of Suwon Samsung (40), Kim Hyo-bum, acting coach of Seoul Samsung (basketball), and Jin Soon-ki, acting coach of Hyundai Capital (40).