Taigang Eagles head coach Hong Yizhong.

(Photo by reporter Li Huizhou)

It is not a bad thing that the Taiwan team was blown up in the first match of the warm-up match

[Reporter Xu Zhengyang/Kaohsiung Report] The Taigang Eagles of the secondary vocational team held the spring training opening ceremony at the Chengcheng Lake Stadium yesterday. The team also announced the first jersey in team history to join the second team season this year. Head coach Hong Yizhong said, The first self-organized warm-up match was on February 17. Although they had to face the Taiwan team preparing for the classic match, it would not be a bad thing to get blown up.

Allow young players to grow up quickly

Mr. Hong pointed out that there are about 10 warm-up matches organized by himself. The opponents include the Second Army of Korean Professional Heroes and Lotte Taoyuan, CITIC Brothers, Uni-President Lions and other secondary professional teams. The first game will be against the Taiwan team. , but if you can help the national team, you will fully cooperate, "Playing with such a high intensity earlier, you can know where the police are, so that young players can grow up quickly."

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Mr. Hong believes that all the training this year is to prepare for the first team next year. He hopes that the second team can play 120 games in the regular season. Since 16 pitchers are not enough, he is considering testing a few pitchers who have been released by other teams. In the middle of the season, it is also possible to find Yucheng foreign generals. "We only have 40 players. Whether we can play so many games or not depends on their conditions."

There are 25 people in the Taigang team born after 2000, and the oldest is Yang Daxiang, who is 29 years old. Mr. Hong said that the young players are very energetic, and he feels younger. Naturally, "I have a lot of memories in Chengcheng Lake, including the first time I won the championship as the head coach, and I hope to have the second and third championships here."

The team leader Liu Dongyang said that in the second half of this year, he will cooperate with the Kaohsiung City Government to renovate the stadium. The first stage will focus on the player lounge, audience seats, and toilets, so that fans in the south can enjoy the same watching environment as in the north. Natural turf will still be used in the infield and outfield , Next year, the home court arrangements for the last army will not all be in Qingming Lake.

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