Volleyball Empress’ Kim Yeon-kyung (Heungkuk Life Insurance)’s gaze is heading to ‘Champion’.
Heungkuk Life Insurance finished the 2022-2023 season V-League regular league in first place. It is the first time in four years since the 2018-2019 season that Heungkuk Life Insurance took the top spot on the regular league table.
However, it is only 15 years since the 2007-2008 season when Kim Yeon-kyung, who played her overseas league, achieved first place in her Heungkuk Life Insurance uniform, which was three years after her debut.
Even in the 2020-2021 season, when Kim Yeon-kyung returned to the V-League after 11 years, Heungkuk Life Insurance missed the championship right in front of its eyes. At the time, Heungkuk Life Insurance, which was running at the top and flying wildly, broke its wings as the controversy over school violence by twin sisters Lee Jae-young and Lee Da-young arose, and eventually finished the season as runner-up.
Ahead of this season, Kim Yeon-kyung’s challenge to win again in the arms of Heungkuk Life Insurance was not easy this time.
Heungkuk Life Insurance, which was cruising in second place, suffered a serious internal conflict when coach Kwon Soon-chan was sacked in January. The team, which was aiming for first place, took the lead in an instant, and had to digest the game as an acting manager for about two months.
Even in the precarious situation, veteran Kim Yeon-kyung was firm. The team came together and rose to first place, and finally took the first place title in the regular season with new coach Marcello Abondanza, who joined at the end of the season.
Kim Yeon-kyung, who also expressed concerns about retirement during the season, is now aiming to become a champion on the final stage. The 2008-2009 season was the last time Kim Yeon-kyung tasted victory in the V-League championship match.
The probability of winning the championship match (3 wins from 5 matches) of the top team in the regular league for women is 50%, 8 out of 16 times.
Heungkuk Life Insurance challenges the 4th overall championship in 4 years after the 2018-2019 season. Kim Yeon-kyung, who won MVP in the championship match three times in her career, is looking forward to another trophy.
The opponent who will compete for the championship trophy with Heungkuk Life Insurance will be covered in the playoffs (PO, 2 wins in 3 matches) where Hyundai E&C, 2nd place in the regular league, and Korea Expressway Corporation, 3rd place, face each other.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction, which dominated the league with 15 consecutive wins in the opening season, was shaken and pushed to second place after foreign player Yasmin’s injury left. The new foreign player, Montaño, failed to show his overwhelming presence until the end of the season. Montaño’s performance can be a PO variable for Hyundai E&C.
After breaking up with foreign player Katarina, Korea Expressway Corporation changed the atmosphere and rose with Catbell, who joined as a substitute player.
The team that passes the PO of the 2-win system out of 3 can fight the final battle for the ‘throne’ with Heungkuk Life Insurance from the 29th.
This season’s men’s postseason started on the 22nd with a semi-playoff (junior PO) between KEPCO and Woori Card.
In the V-League, a semi-PO is only achieved when the difference between 3rd and 4th places is within 3 points. 3rd place Woori Card (56 points) and 4th place KEPCO (53 points), who finished the season with 3 points, got on the last train of spring volleyball.
Coincidentally, the two teams faced each other at the semi-PO this year as well as last year, and the result was also the same with KEPCO’s ‘upset’ in 4th place.
Attention is focusing on how far the footsteps of KEPCO, which stopped when it failed to surpass KB Insurance in the playoffs (PO) last year, can continue this time.
On the 24th, KEPCO starts the first round of PO against Hyundai Capital, which is second in the regular league.
Hyundai Capital’s biggest task is to fill the void of Jeon Kwang-in, who left due to an injury at the end of the season.
Korean Air, which won the regular league for three consecutive years, is aiming for a combined championship again this year.카지노사이트The championship match with Korean Air begins on the 30th.
The team that ranked first in the regular league in the V-League men’s division rose to the ‘champion’ position with a probability of 47.06% (8 out of 17 times).