'Youth Basketball Super Cup' Holds 2nd Competition in Pocheon in 5 Months
The "Super Cup," a grassroots basketball catalyst and festival for young basketball dreamers around the world, will be held. The NH Nonghyup Bank 2024 Asian Youth Basketball Super Cup, which was held in Hongcheon-gun, Gangwon-do in February and received great reviews, will move to Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, for the second time in more than five months. The official name of the competition is "NH Nonghyup Bank 2024 Global Youth Basketball Super Cup," which will be held simultaneously at six gymnasiums in Pocheon City from the 12th to the 14th. The competition will be held in a total of seven categories: U9, U10, U11, U12, U13, U15, and U18. Hosted and organized by Pocheon City Sports Council, Pocheon City Basketball Association, and KXO (Korea 3x3 Basketball Federation), the competition will be sponsored by NH Nonghyup Bank, POSCO International, Sports Toto Korea, Wilson, Korea Welding Stick, Kookmin Furniture, Urban Space Engineering, Kangsan Safety, Lexan Dotcom, and Right Seoul Hospital. After five months of preparation, the Super Cup, which was held successfully for the first time, will be held twice in Pocheon. The first event, which was held in Hongcheon, was the largest ever and left its mark on the Korean youth basketball community. The international youth basketball tournament held in Korea was inevitably well received due to the difficult situation in the domestic youth basketball community, and the Super Cup, which was a combination of sponsorship from large corporations, KBSN sports broadcasts, and various auxiliary events, led to the second competition and successfully settled in the Korean basketball community. The second Super Cup in Pocheon is also highly anticipated. With more than 80 domestic and foreign teams confirmed to participate, youth basketball teams from the U.S., Mongolia, Japan and Taiwan will visit Pocheon, while leading youth basketball classes such as Samsung, KCC, Songdo TOP, SK, DB, and Pyeongtaek Kim Hoon will participate in Korea. Chung Jong-geun, chairman of Pocheon City Sports Committee, said, "We are pleased to host the second Super Cup in Pocheon City. We have worked with Choi Hee-am, chairman of the organizing committee, and other officials to make all-out preparations to lead to a good competition. Many hopefuls from home and abroad have visited Pocheon, and I hope they enjoy the competition until the end of the competition without getting injured," promising to hold the event successfully. Choi Hee-am, chairman of the organizing committee, said, "These days, the importance of grassroots basketball is rising more than ever. After the successful hosting of the first Super Cup, we also worked hard to prepare for the second Super Cup with Pocheon City, Pocheon City Sports Council, and Pocheon City Basketball Association. I heard that many basketball classes are training hard for the Super Cup, and I hope that it will be a competition where all players can be satisfied by showing off their skills as much as they have prepared." The NH Nonghyup Bank 2024 Global Youth Basketball Super Cup, which will open its second page in more than five months, will be held from 12 p.m. on the 12th and will be broadcast live on YouTube before the tournament.