The Asian quarter of professional volleyball is under consideration for the women's priority implementation of the "free contract system."
The Asian quarter of professional volleyball is under consideration for the women's priority implementation of the "free contract system."
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With the resurgence of the free contract system for foreign players emerging as a hot topic in the early 2024-2025 professional volleyball season, the Asian quarter is considering introducing a free contract first by the women's team.
According to the Korea Volleyball Federation (KOVO) and seven women's teams on the 14th, when a working committee consisting of secretariat directors of 14 men and women's teams was held on the 10th, the directors of the women's team met separately after the end of the general meeting to discuss ways to push for free contracts first for Asian quarter players.
This is because the Asian quarter marks its second year of introduction, but the need to improve the current tryout method has been raised due to the limitations of talent pool.
The Volleyball Federation expanded the Asian quarter target countries, which were limited to 10 countries in the 2023-2024 season, to 64 countries during this year's tryout.
Current Asian quarter players receive an annual salary of $120,000 and re-signers receive $150,000, respectively.
However, some players have been kicked out due to poor performance, and the reality is that it is difficult to bring in new players who are full of anger even if they are looking for replacements due to injuries.
Heungkuk Life Insurance, which leads the league with 14 consecutive wins since the opening of this season, ended its contract with Chinese middle blocker Huang Luilai, who was selected through a tryout in May, three days before the opening of this season, and brought in Anilis Fitch (registered name Fitch), a New Zealand national from Australia.
The Korea Expressway Corporation also released Unieska Batista (registered name Unies) in the Asian quarter after two games and recently recruited Tanacha Suksot (registered name Tanacha) from Thailand, who has played in the V-League.
In addition, GS Caltex is looking for a replacement for Stephanie Wyler (registered name Wyler), who ruptured her right Achilles tendon in the match against Heungkuk Life Insurance on the 29th of last month, but has not confirmed a replacement.
For this reason, women's clubs naturally formed a consensus on the introduction of free contracts in the Asian quarter.
"In the case of foreign players, it has been settled to some extent since it was introduced for nearly 20 years, but the Asian quarter, which is in its second year of implementation, has a much narrower choice and has a lot of problems to improve," said A, the team's secretary general.
The women's team previously introduced a foreign player tryout a year before the men's teams in the 2015-2016 season.
Team B's secretary general also responded positively, saying, "I'm satisfied with the Asian quarter player, but I'm not against free contracts because I can renew my contract if I want," adding, "If the free contract system is implemented, the clubs will have more options because they can bring better players." 바카라사이트
To implement the Asian quarter free contract system from May next year, it is necessary to prepare a supplementary device to block back money and form a consensus on specific implementation measures such as "Having 2 players, playing 1 player" in preparation for player injuries.
While the Asian quarter free contract system is likely to be discussed again at the board meeting attended by the heads of departments on the 18th, attention is being paid to whether the early implementation of the women's team will become a reality from next year.