Former SKT head coach and 3-time World Champion kkOma will lead DAMWON Gaming in 2021
Will he and DWG win another World Championship?
Former SK Telecom T1 head coach and 3-time World Champion Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun has joined DAMWON Gaming for the 2021 LCK season.
He was previously head coach of Vici Gaming for the 2020 LPL season, where the team finished ninth in Spring, and eleventh in Summer out of 17 teams.
안녕하세요. 2021년, 김정균 감독님과 담원게이밍이 함께 갑니다. 김정균 감독님에 대한 힘찬 응원과 앞으로도 담원게이밍에게 많은 기대 부탁드립니다. 감사합니다.pic.twitter.com/ty7bnA88yW
kkOma replaces head coachLee “Zefa” Jae-min, who has returned to T1 as a main coach. Zefa led DAMWON Gaming to win the 2020 World Championship, defeating LPL’s Suning 3-1 in the final on 31 October at the Pudong Football Stadium in Shanghai, China.
안녕하세요. 담원게이밍 사무국입니다.그동안 팀을 이끌어주신 이재민 감독님, 양대인 코치님의 뜻에 따라 담원게이밍 과의 계약이 종료되었음을 알려드립니다.pic.twitter.com/eL6a0vXnKW
kkOma announced in September that he would be stepping down as head coach of Vici Gaming, for heneeded to return to South Korea for personal family reasons. It was later revealed that his wife was pregnant, and had given birth to their first child.
kkOma is a father! And it’s a girl!He directly posted a picture in his fan communities; I feel conservative about reposting the photo, so here is a link to kkOma’s own posthttps://t.co/LJ0y0ICs98
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