The new women's volleyball coach, Cha Sang-hyun, who was disapproved of "Let's do it in the procedures," supports the recommitment exclusively

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Former GS Caltex coach Cha Sang-hyun, who was appointed as the head coach of the Korean women's national volleyball team but was rejected by the Korean Sports Council due to procedural defects, applied exclusively for the national team coach's re-competition.

The Korea Volleyball Association said on the 3rd, "We have closed the open recruitment of the 2026 women's national volleyball team leaders for two weeks from the 20th of last month," adding, "A team of candidates for coach Cha Sang-hyun and coach Lee Sook-ja applied for the open recruitment, which the coach and coach must support as a team."

"After reviewing the documents for applicants, an interview evaluation will be conducted on the 6th." Afterwards, a meeting of the performance improvement committee will be held to select final candidates based on documents and interview results, and recommend them to the National Leader Selection Personnel Committee, he added. "If the selection of leaders is finalized by the board of directors after deliberation by the personnel committee, it will go through a process of asking the Korea Sports Council for approval."

Initially, coach Cha Sang-hyun and coach Lee Sook-ja had already been selected as coaches and coaches for the women's national team through the Korea Volleyball Association competition. However, the Korean Volleyball Association's performance improvement committee was not approved because it failed to meet the requirements for seven members in the approval process by the Korean Sports Council.

As Cha Sang-hyun, a former member of the Korea Volleyball Association's performance improvement committee, resigned from his position to support the national team's coach position, the number of performance improvement committee members was reduced from seven to six, and it was said that there was a defect in the process of selecting Cha without meeting the requirements for performance improvement (7 members).

In the end, the Korea Volleyball Association re-competed on the 20th of last month, and former coach Cha Sang-hyun once again applied with coach Lee Sook-ja to become the sole candidate. As there are no competitive candidates and they have already gone through internal deliberations by the Korea Volleyball Association and have taken steps just before the approval of the Korea Sports Council, there is no big problem in appointing them.

If Cha Sang-hyun and coach Lee Sook-ja are appointed, they will start preparing for the national team's schedule, which will lead to the 2026 Asian Volleyball Federation (AVC) Cup, East Asian Championship, Asian Championship, and Asian Games (AG). The term of office is until the end of the 2028 national team season.

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