17 Korean national softball teams will be training in Japan from the 20th to March 9th.
On the 20th, the Korea Baseball Softball Association said, “On the 27th of last month, the Competition Improvement Committee was held to select 17 national softball players to participate in the Japanese off-season training.” It is to develop the sense of the Korean national softball team and to prepare for the softball Asia Cup to be held in Incheon in April.”
He added, “We decided on Japan, which is second in the softball world rankings and won the gold medal in softball at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, as the training ground and requested the Japan Softball Association (JSA) to organize a systematic training program.”메이저사이트
During this training period, the national team will train jointly with the softball team of Yamanashi Gakuin University in Japan, and play a practice game with softball teams from 9 universities including Waseda University, Fuji University, and Josai University.
For professional defense training, former Japanese national softball team coach Rei Nishiyama is invited.
Coach Nishiyama served as a shortstop for Japan’s national softball team for 12 years, winning gold medals while playing for the Japanese national team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2006 Doha, 2010 Guangzhou, and 2014 Incheon Asian Games.
“The goal of our national softball team is to win a bronze medal at the Asian Games in Hangzhou this year,” said Noh Jong-woo, head coach of the national softball team.