Quoted from "joanamss"
I read Kovo did this week a tryout in Anahein, in the States, to select players for next season...but I honestly couldnt understand well how it worked. Are these players signing for next season to play? Did Kovo changed the foreigner system? Or what?
If anyone understands, please...
I remember awhile back there was a report that the Korean League wanted to reduce the dependency on foreign players' offense, recruit younger foreign players who had less experience to even the playing field and incorporate a salary cap. Most of the top record scorers have been coming from Korea as a result of the over dependency on foreigners. Based off the release, it looks like they held a tryout in the USANT facility to select the foreign athletes for next year. Athletes had to be a maximum age of 25 years old and with less than three years of professional experience. From the tryout the players were given a ranking from 1-3 and 4-6. Players ranked 1-3 were eligible for $150,000 salary where as 4-6 players would make $120,000. Selected athletes would only be allowed to renew their contract for one additional year. It appears that the tryout was limited to American players.
In theory, it sounds good and by limiting the age and experience the skill level of the foreign players will definitely be lower than the current athletes that has passed through Korea as of late who are established pro players but the over dependency on foreign athletes for offense will continue to be an issue.
Hayley Spelman, Leslie Cikra and Liz McMahon are all traditional position 2 players.
Taylor Simpson and Emily Hartong are position 4 players (whom I think have NT ability for the USA).
Khat Bell is a position 3/2 player who could play either position well.
It will be interesting to see how this works out next year.
yes that's rigt. korean teams will choose their foreinger players with tryout..i have heard that Rahimova'll move to Japon next year