Apink’s Hayoung shares she and others left soccer team due to groundless rumors

[satoori]

Apink’s Hayoung Shares She And Others Including Jihyo, Mina, And Kim Sejeong Left Soccer Team

Apink’s Hayoung shared that she and other celebrities decided to leave the soccer team “FC Rumor.”

In July, Hayoung and gugudan‘s Kim Sejeong posted on their social media accounts about joining a new all-female non-professional soccer club called “FC Rumor.” A photo of the team in their uniforms only showed their backs but it revealed the names of celebrities including gugudan’s Nayoung, BESTie’s Uji, TWICE’s Jihyo and Mina, EXID’s Jeonghwa, and actress Kim Sae Ron.

Soon after, rumors spread that the club was affiliated with an all-male celebrity soccer team, also called “FC Rumor.” Certain malicious commenters spread rumors that the two soccer clubs were just an excuse for those male and female celebrities to meet up and date.

Hayoung and Kim Sejeong both refuted the rumors on social media. The club also clarified that the female and male teams were separate despite the same name, with the male team being for soccer and the female team playing futsal.

On August 11, Hayoung spoke to fans via a V Live Broadcast after an article about the team came out earlier that day.

“I came on V Live to tell you this,” she said. “I left the soccer team after my birthday. Some others left too, including Jihyo and Mina.”

She continued, “We didn’t leave because there was a misunderstanding, we left because fans might misunderstand or be upset due to the group and because the people around us were hurt because of speculation.”

“We had really good intentions about the hobby, but if people think of it differently than we intended, then it’s meaningless to do it,” Hayoung said. She said that she’d seen fans write posts saying things like, “I wish Hayoung unni would leave it” (the term “unni” is used by women toward older female friends or sisters).

“I realized that even though I have a clear conscience, people might not see it in the same way,” she said. “I left because I wanted to end the issue.” She added that it’s been a while since she withdrew from the team, saying she left as soon as the controversy occurred.

Hayoung shared that in order to clear up the misunderstanding, she was intending to share footage they’d taken during their activities together. However, she decided that continuing to try to explain things could cause more harm to the non-celebrity members of the team.

“Those of us whose names had been mentioned, like me, Sejeong, and others, all left together,” she said. “Because we didn’t want to cause harm.”

Hayoung went on to say, “We said to each other that if we really want to do it then we can quietly, without letting others know, rent a futsal venue or take a class, so we decided to make sure that fans don’t misunderstand. That’s why we left.”

“I didn’t want there to be even one or two fans who were worried,” she commented. When some fans apologized, Hayoung said, “Why are you sorry? It’s okay!”

“For the past 10 years, I’ve worked hard to maintain my image and ensure that I don’t worry fans,” she said. “However, in the end, this made me for the first time think that I’ve unintentionally caused people to misunderstand.” She went on to say she didn’t want to make fans worry and said, “Even if I haven’t made them worry, as a fan it would be upsetting to see their singer’s name mentioned in a negative way.”

https://www.soompi.com/article/1418394wpp/apinks-hayoung-shares-she-and-others-including-jihyo-mina-and-kim-sejeong-left-soccer-team

 

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by satoori

[satoori]

Seems their kfans were really upset about this.The rumors must of got really bad too - a clean image is everything for kpop idols especially girl groups.

 

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Edited August 11, 2020 by satoori

[joyurigged]

I hate crazy stans

[echobunny]

how do you immediately leave a project you worked on for so long, because of a dozen "fans" making up shit?

good luck to the remaining members, although they probably will cancel the whole thing anyway now that all the big names dropped out

[Moon Jellyfish]

This fucking sucks.  These ladies just wanted to enjoy a hobby all together and because of some stupid people and media creating all these ridiculous rumors and assumptions, they and we can't have anything nice 

[lighterxx]

Poor gg members honestly they had no fault, yet they still got suspected of weird rumours rip

[satoori]

Hayoung went on to say, “We said to each other that if we really want to do it then we can quietly, without letting others know, rent a futsal venue or take a class, so we decided to make sure that fans don’t misunderstand. That’s why we left.”

 

there's still a chance they will do something together. but this time not make it public, i guess..

by some very small chance if this was an opportunity for idols who share common interest in sports to mingle, then it's probably better keeping it a secret, because obviously some crazy stans are not mature enough to handle their favs enjoying themselves.

 

[rananicolee]

They just wanted to play soccer. The fans that got mad need to go. 

[BlessMeAchoo]

This is so sad. They just wanted to have harmless fun together and netizens just had to ruin it.

[Jikrytae]

I don't condone rumor mongering, but are we supposed to just ignore the hilarious ironic team name? They were practically asking for it.

[Drama Drama Drama]

Sad

Girls can play too

Edited August 11, 2020 by Drama Drama Drama

[Mrs. Morale]

8 minutes ago, Drama Drama Drama said:

Sad

Girls can play too

 

[No1]

This was some of the stupidiest shit I’ve ever read zealous stans/antis did. I feel bad for the girls; they just wanted to have some fun and share with their own fans.

[Sakura IS FEARLESS]

Hayoung is a big soccer fan so this is just upsetting and infuriating to hear. Fandom culture can be soo fkin DUMB and DRAMATIC. 

[oden]

i just cant...crazy k netz........that why they hate so much idol sport festive this years....knetz ohhh knetz ....you people really ....something...

[Elscian]

Why can't they do anything fun :sad:

[eunheart]

This is so frustrating to see. They just want to play sports, their hobbies. Boys are fine to play soccer together but not girls to play futsal? Smh get a life please.

I was hoping to see the group encouraging more artists to interact with each other and have a healthy hobby to do together but the kind of things that lead them to leave the group, I'm sad. I'm just very sad with this. The need to sacrifice their good intention because of fans bad mouth.. Just so sad.

[satoori]

21 minutes ago, eunheart said:

This is so frustrating to see. They just want to play sports, their hobbies. Boys are fine to play soccer together but not girls to play futsal? Smh get a life please.

I was hoping to see the group encouraging more artists to interact with each other and have a healthy hobby to do together but the kind of things that lead them to leave the group, I'm sad. I'm just very sad with this. The need to sacrifice their good intention because of fans bad mouth.. Just so sad.

I don't think knetz care about girls playing sports. The rumors started because they're sharing a similar name with another soccer team of male idols. Basically their kfans feel the idols are just planning to use the club as a way to meet up. (romantically)

Kfans overreacted as usual. Probably would of been a different reaction if the team had a different name. However what's done is done now. I doubt we will see any GG teams like this soon. At least not publicly. Even if another name is used, knetz will probably continue to bring up this incident.

 

 

Edited August 13, 2020 by satoori

[eunheart]

55 minutes ago, satoori said:

I don't think knetz care about girls playing sports. The rumors started because they're sharing a similar name with another soccer team of male idols. Basically their kfans feel the idols are just planning to use the club as a way to meet up. (romantically)

Kfans overreacted as usual. Probably would of been a different reaction if the team had a different name. However what's done is done now. I doubt we will see any GG teams like this soon. At least not publicly. Even if another name is used, knetz will probably continue to bring up this incident.

Yeah I think they only care about making everything scandalous or an issue at this point.

With this kind of reaction? I doubt they would want to do anything collaborative outside of music business in the future. I live to see cross group interactions and I'm nowhere getting this chance through futsal team (perhaps any kind of sports team for gg) now smh

[satoori]

11 minutes ago, eunheart said:

Yeah I think they only care about making everything scandalous or an issue at this point.

With this kind of reaction? I doubt they would want to do anything collaborative outside of music business in the future. I live to see cross group interactions and I'm nowhere getting this chance through futsal team (perhaps any kind of sports team for gg) now smh

Exactly. 

I mean, idols from different groups interact all the time behind the scenes and off camera. We hear about it all the time. It's probably how this soccer team was created too. However yea with this reaction idols will probably think twice before sharing things publicly or may not even share it at all. TT TT

[eunheart]

1 minute ago, satoori said:

Exactly. 

I mean, idols from different groups interact all the time behind the scenes and off camera. We hear about it all the time. It's probably how this soccer team was created too. However yea with this reaction idols will probably think twice before sharing things publicly or may not even share it at all. TT TT

Yep. We do know they interacted behind the scenes and off camera. And to me, having the group would means we will likely to have more open interactions among the groups that we never know existed. Who knows we might even get video updates or some content creators covering their games and interactions. But now... guess we'll just see them update IG at most. If such backlashes happened to them, yeah I'll prefer them keep to themselves.

Gotta hate how they deserved better freedom and these fans kept them in the cage.

[satoori]

21 minutes ago, eunheart said:

Yep. We do know they interacted behind the scenes and off camera. And to me, having the group would means we will likely to have more open interactions among the groups that we never know existed. Who knows we might even get video updates or some content creators covering their games and interactions. But now... guess we'll just see them update IG at most. If such backlashes happened to them, yeah I'll prefer them keep to themselves.

Gotta hate how they deserved better freedom and these fans kept them in the cage.

Agree