"I will make a national team that I want to come."

On the 25th, a press conference for the new coach of the Korean national volleyball team was held at the conference room on the 3rd floor of the Olympic Parktel located in Songpa-gu, Seoul.

Fernando Morales took the helm of the women's volleyball team after Cesar Hernandez Gonzalez.

Morales, who played the setter position when he was active, played in Puerto Rico, Spain, Austria, France, Cyprus, Russia, Lebanon, and Greece.

After retirement, she started coaching the women's team in the Puerto Rican League, and recently served as the head coach of the Puerto Rican national team and the women's volleyball coach at Evansville University in the United States.

Morales was promoted from coach to coach soon after Puerto Rico's women's team failed to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Like Korea, he elevated the Puerto Rican team, which has been weakened by generational change, to 16th place in the world rankings. Notably, he performed well with four wins and three losses at the qualifying match for the 2024 Paris Olympics last year.

The Korean women's volleyball community is in crisis. It has lost all of its games in two consecutive games in the VNL, and failed to win a medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games for the first time in 17 years. The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball Association (FIVB) ranking has also slumped to 40th.

Against this backdrop, Morales feels heavy on the shoulders. "I will make every effort to go back to when Korean women's volleyball had good performances in the past," Morales said.

Hereinafter, it is a question and answer with Morales.

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