According to a report by the South Korean media “North Korean Sports” on December 9, Andre Soo, Sun Xingyi’s personal coach, who has attracted a lot of attention recently, had worked in China, but left China only three months later because he was dissatisfied with the professionalism of Chinese players.
In response to Andre-soo’s criticism of the poor organization of the Korean Football Association, people from the Korean Football Association responded that it was because Andre-soo did not have the qualification of a physiotherapist for the national team, so he was dissatisfied that he had not been formally hired. However, Sun Xingyi’s father, Sun Xiongzheng, is well aware of this. Andr Soo has no idea of being formally hired by the South Korean team, but only to make a better recovery of the South Korean players, thus making more personal contributions. Sun’s father also paid a total of 100m won (530000 yuan) for air tickets, accommodation and travel expenses for Andsoo during the World Cup.
People close to Andsoo also revealed: “because Andsoo was well received and received an offer from a Chinese team, his annual salary reached 400 million won (about 2.13 million yuan), and he served the players with the same professionalism and mentality in China as in South Korea. But three months later he packed up and went home. Chinese players only care about playing and smoking, and pay no attention to self-management, which hit him so hard that he even paid 100 million won in liquidated damages, preferring to pay it back out of his own pocket. ”
Another friend also said: “Coach Andsoo is a good man. when he works in the club, whether he is a famous star or a second-tier player, he will not have any prejudice and sincerely provide physiotherapy for everyone.” Even when a player was transferred to another team, he specifically begged him, ‘can you come to our team?’ ”
“Coach Andsoo is not interested in fame and wealth, he just has a sense of mission in his work, maybe this is the motivation for the South Korean players to run hard in this World Cup. Sun Xingyi was able to return to the team quickly even if he was injured in the Premier League, thanks to the excellent skill of coach Andre Soo. I believe the players trust him very much. ”
(Driesen)