Correspondent Kang Dong-hoon = Veteran midfielder Park Jong-woo (33, Busan I-Park) frankly confessed the background of choosing to stay after signing a new contract after long consideration. He confessed that he only thought of continuing his companionship with Busan.
Park Jong-woo met with reporters at the 2023 K-League Winter Field Training Media Camp held at the Songjeong Hotel in Busan on the 9th and said, “The team called Busan came to me with great meaning. So I was able to decide to renew the contract.” , I also had a lot of thoughts about Busan,” he said.
Throughout the winter, a lot of attention was focused on Park Jong-woo’s whereabouts. His contract with Busan expired on December 31 last year, and he negotiated a renewal contract for a long time, but it was not easy to narrow the gap and was caught as a parting strand. In fact, he received offers from several K-League clubs, and when the contract extension announcement did not come out until mid-January, the weight was focused on leaving.
However, Park Jong-woo finally chose to accompany Busan after agonizing over the separation from his stay. He signed a new contract on the 21st of last month. This is the 5th year since I returned to Busan in 2019. In the past, from his professional debut in 2010 to 2013, it is 9 years if you add up.
Park Jong-woo said, “Actually, during my professional life, I never had a headache from contracts or transfers. There were circumstances with the club, but after the contract expired, things didn’t go the way I wanted. After explaining the situation at the time, he said, “However, I was more inclined to stay. My affection for Busan was so great that I ruled out various reasons. Just like the director and the CEO, they waited for me.” The background of the contract renewal was revealed.
He said, “I thought about many things, but I was able to decide to renew the contract because the team called Busan meant a lot to me. I also thought that Busan needed a player who would stay for a long time. I thought I could feel a lot if I saw him running and finishing well.” I want to remain as a special player in the club,” he added. 바카라
Park Jong-woo has a different will this season, as he has dramatically renewed his contract. Moreover, since he had been away for a long time due to injury for the past two years and had suffered a lot, he was determined to achieve promotion without fail while burning his will even more.
Park Jong-woo said, “I’m probably the only one who played for Busan in the first division, then fell to the second division, was promoted again, and then was demoted. In the past, when I had good results in the K-League 1, I received a lot of questions about the upper division, but now I get a lot of questions about promotion,” he said. “I definitely think Busan deserves promotion. I really can’t do it because I don’t have the skills,” he said, revealing his strong will for promotion.
“I felt a lot of responsibility because I had disastrous results last year, and I think I need to prepare better. I will do my best to be of great help, and I will definitely bring better results than last year,” he said. .
Then, Park Jong-woo said, “It would have been better if the team did better when I was injured, but it was mentally more difficult because the team’s performance was not good at the time. I was especially upset when I was the captain and saw my juniors struggling.” “It’s an injury. That doesn’t mean I’m afraid. Personally, I’m preparing for the season while paying attention to strengthening exercises. I’ll really put in so-called bloody efforts to get promoted.”
