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Yahoo
19-02-2025
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2025 K League 2 Season Preview
The K League United Podcast finally turns its attentions to the second tier this week as K League 2 gets underway on Saturday. Matthew Binns and Andrew Farrell are on the podcast this week, looking over the state of K League 2 ahead of the 2025 campaign. They wont' be alone though, as our writers join them to give their views on teams in a division that is bigger than ever!Mike Brandon, Michael Redmond, Diogo Valente, Luke Evans and Paul Neat all make appearances to help cover the expanded team list. After all that, there's time to discuss title predictions as well as who else we think may scrape a promotion before then continuing the conversation over onPatreon to go through the K League 1 action at the weekend. There's also the announcement of our latest kit giveaway. In celebration of 10 years of K League United, we look to give away a match-worn home shirt fromour website's first interviewee, FC Anyang's Austin Berry. To stand a chance of winning this 2015 Anyang kit, simply follow us and reshare the related social media post of this podcast, or share this page with @KLeagueUnited tagged, for your chance to enter the draw with the prize set to be drawn in March.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Sport
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"Competition is inevitable" - Ulsan HD skipper Kim Young-gwon on new centre back additions
Ulsan HD captain Kim Young-gwon says he isn't too concerned about younger players eyeing his position in the team, and that winter 2025 was a good time to execute a 'generational shift' within the playing squad. Ulsan HD head into the 2025 season having been busy in the winter transfer window. Several of the club's older statesmen - the likes of Joo Min-kyu, Kim Kee-hee, and Lim Jong-eun - have left with younger replacements coming in. Speaking exclusively to K League United after the first of two 2025 K League 1 Media Days concluded on Wednesday 5th February, captain and key centre back Kim Young-gwon, when asked whether now was a good time to execute something of a generational shift, said: "I think it's a pretty good time. Also, the players who have joined aren't just young; many of them are in the mid-to-senior range. They have experience, and some have even played for the national team, so I think that's a great advantage." At centre back, the Horangi have clawed the much-coveted Seo Myung-kwan away from Bucheon FC 1995 and the advances of other teams, and have also added Lee Jae-ik from Jeonbuk. Kim Young-gwon says he isn't too worried about the extra competition for places: "Of course, competition is inevitable. This is the professional stage, after all. If those players perform well, it's natural for them to get playing time. But I also have my own role and responsibilities, and I know I can contribute to the team in my own way. So I need to prepare well." Ulsan begin the new season at home to newly-promoted FC Anyang on Sunday 16th February.
