There must be many fans who remember this scene.
Yes, the poster content is not a Japanese football superstar or any other symbol, but a "Football Young Player" who moved from the second dimension to the World Cup.
However, the result is very realistic - Dakongyi said that you must never give up until the whistle sounds. The Japanese team seemed to open this famous quote in a strange way. Keep on the offensive football with two goals in hand.
In the end, the Belgian team made two and three wins, and the Japanese team once again hated the top 16 and failed to go further.
But even so, no one can deny that in just a few decades, this Japanese team has gone from a weak team that is difficult to win in the Asian qualifiers to a top-notch Asian team that has three-time top 16 in the sixth World Cup. Just like a poor boy in the country becomes the strongest knight in the kingdom, the kingly passionate plot is always touching. The history of Japanese football's development, like the protagonist of the comics, has become stronger and stronger through twists and turns.
(The Japanese team has never missed the main competition since the 1998 World Cup in France)
60s Cramer -
"Without league, there is no modern football"
is like an ancient master always becomes a sudden foreshadowing in the late stages of comics. Dettmar Cramer, known as the "father of modern Japanese football", only appeared in the recent drama. The football anime "Goodbye, My Cramer" broadcast in
in 2021 paid tribute to the first foreign "technical consultant" in Japanese football history with the title.
trained coaches, trained referees, and promoted the establishment of a league in the Japanese Football Association. If
is compared to the comic world, Cramer is like an old village chief who is diligent in giving the protagonist a three-piece set and life potion to the protagonist. Without this step, he may be killed by wild monsters at the first leveling point -
In the football world, without a professional coach, it is impossible for children to receive professional football education from an early age. Without professional referees, it is impossible to organize regular competitions. Without leagues, there will be no professionalization and marketization, and there is no way to talk about the sustainable development of football itself.
Under his suggestion, In 1965, Japan established the JSL National Football League, becoming the predecessor of the J League.
JSL League is essentially a strange product that the Japanese Football Association listened to Cramer's suggestions but did not listen completely: it is said that it is a professional league, but the members of the league are all "enterprise groups", and the staff teams of large enterprises are the main body of the JSL league; it is said that it is a pure amateur league, and large enterprises will build special football fields for employees, independent bathroom training rooms, and even organize overseas training.
(JSL championship chronology... I even mistakenly think this is the market value ranking of Japanese companies)
Japanese football took the first step of professionalization.
htmlSilent growth in the 570s -
"Sports serve all citizens"
The protagonist, who just came out of the novice village, always had to go through hardships in the first maze before he could officially embark on an adventure; after the brief success of Cramer's page, Japanese football ushered in another twenty years of silence.
htmlIn the 170s and 1980s, the Japanese team was indeed a second-rate Asian team. In the 1978 World Cup qualifiers, the Japanese team returned home with three losses and one draw. In the 1982 World Cup qualifiers, they were eventually eliminated by North Korea. It is worth mentioning that the only time the Chinese team and the Japanese team compete in the World Cup is this World Cup. The Chinese team defeated the Japanese team 1-0.(How do you recall me, with a smile or being very silent)
However, thanks to the good results of the men's football quarter-finals in the 1964 Olympics and the third place in the 1968 Olympics, the Japanese national sports management department agreed with Cramer's logic.The concept of "sports serve all citizens" has been widely recognized.
is like not being able to sell the Doran shield or branch you carry with you when you go out, and you will be sold out in the end, and you will be pretending to go out naked; the valuable experience you gained in the early stage will not become worthless when you grow up. During the 20 years of silence, Japanese football has also been silently accumulating strength: in
html "Football Young Players" of the 580s -
"Football is a friend!"
With a "novice village" with basically complete facilities and a group of conscientious NPCs, it's just a little bit that can gather adventurers here. And "Football Young Player" became that flag.
"Football Young Player" Volume 1 was published in 1981. The creative background is completely different from what I had imagined before: it was not because the sport of football was at its peak in Japan, which attracted the attention of cartoonists and then created works on the theme of football. Football was a niche sport in Japan at that time. There is no independent professional league, and you can only rely on corporate groups, and you don’t even have a promotion and relegation system. On campus, football is not fashionable, and baseball is the first choice for young people.
company author Takahashi Yoichi himself chose to join the table tennis department in junior high school; in high school, he worked hard to become a professional baseball player. I can’t play baseball and draw baseball comics, so I have to “empower the new track”. This is the realistic factor in Yoichi Takahashi's creation of "Football Young Player".
(Photo by Takahashi Yoichi and Iniesta)
From the current perspective, the professionalism of "Football Young Players" is really uncommon. Some technical moves are obviously not what should be seen in football games, and some rules of the game-based game are not familiar with the authors. For example, players who leave the game with red cards will be suspended, but Hayata was sent off by a red card in the semi-finals of the World Cup and still played in the finals, etc.
(Sharpening shoes and shoveling ankles, this is probably a straight red action)
But even so, "Football Young Player" still has a sales volume of 82 million copies, affecting a whole generation of Japanese teenagers. It's like the audience watching "Slam Dunk", the focus is definitely not "learning how to fight in a stadium". In the football desert in Japan in the 1980s, no one expected "Football Young Players" to do popular science work.
What everyone sees in Captain Xiaoyi is the most original love for sports, the resistance of a group of teenagers to failure and their own growth. More importantly, those handsome and powerful ultimate moves and heroic postures when scoring. Or in other words, any sports animation that has achieved extraordinary success in must not only talk about sports itself, but also the brilliant brilliance that those who have grown up in sports will shine.
Football is a friend
You have to work hard to become stronger.
You must trust your partner.
cannot give up until the whistle sounds.
and a comic-like ending, how could such a work not be successful in Japan in the 1980s?
(Captain Yoshida Aya: Nakada Hidesu is a legend in the Japanese football world)
Japanese international Hidesu Nakada moved from baseball to football because of "Football Young Player". In an official interview with FIFA in 2017, he had an answer:
"Thirty years ago, baseball was the largest sport in Japan, but football was still unpopular. I didn't have a domestic player or team I loved at the time because I didn't know them at all. But the appearance of "Football Teenagers" made me slowly fall in love with football. In fact, I made a choice between becoming a baseball player or a football player, but I chose the latter."
htmlSabashi Kawabuki in the 590s-
"There is no successful precedent, so I will be the one."
Kawabuki Saburo's tenure, there were only three plans: hired foreign coaches to improve the technical and tactical level of Japanese football, attract big European or South American stars to play football in Japan, establish an advanced and independent professional league system and feed back to the community. 's three plans were finally successfully implemented.
As for coaches - perhaps Japan and Bai Xuebao, there is really an indescribable fate?
Later, Wenger went to England and became Gunner Arsenal's legendary coach ; Nagoya-born producer Shi Akira Marutou, who used his famous work "White Album 2" to turn Wenger's hometown into "White Xuebao". Of course, this is all a story, so I can't say it here. However, as Wenger himself said, Japan in the mid-1990s had something to teach British players:
season, banned smoking and alcohol, strictly restricted fried food, went to bars at night, trained hard, and actively expressed his views on the game.
"I learned to let go and have it. This is good for me in every aspect of my life. When I returned to Europe, I became far more sober, more detached, and more calm than before. "
This is the football philosophy left to Wenger by Japan. Wenger is not the only one who returns to Europe. Since the new century, more and more Japanese players have appeared on the stage of the five major European leagues.
Kawabuchi Saburo, known as the "Godfather of Japanese Football", has all achieved success. In the history of Japanese football, he left a famous saying:
" For those who always say that the time is not ripe, even after 100 years, they will still say that the time is not ripe. For those who say there is no successful precedent, even after 200 years, they will still say there is no successful precedent. "
Two years later, in the 1998 World Cup Asian Qualifiers, Japan and Iran's qualifying battle last moment, Nakada Hideho's long shot caused the goalkeeper to lose his hand, and Okano Masayuki scored a goal to defeat Iran. The Japanese team finally won a place for themselves on the stage of the World Cup.
("Storm out of Asia and go to the world")
Do you still remember the name of Nakada Hideho? The boy who chose his football career because of "Football Young Player" finally stepped onto the highest stage of the football world. In every World Cup competition since then, there was a Japanese team.
New Century Japanese Football:
"The Ambition of the World Championship"
Until now, what Japanese football novice village can give newcomers to football is no longer a simple outfit, but a complete set of experience gift packages.
In football anime, it is estimated that there will be fewer flying shovels with studs or ultimate skills to shoot through the ball net. The animation is no longer a combination of tackles, dribbling, passing people, shooting, and shooting, but rather a combination of several movements, but rather depicting the sense of position, technical movements and clear tactics of the court.
If "Football Young Players" gathers comic teenagers in the football novice village, the recent "Blue Reed" and "Blue Prison" are already discussing "adding points".
"The Reeds of Green" is Japan's consistent pass-control route: three people form a ball control group, tear open the opponent's defense through passing-running. This shot explains it particularly clearly: the forward line pulls the edge and takes away the opponent's defender. Their midfielder (left and back) inserted into the attacking ribs.
(Three-man offensive team display - "Green Reed")
"Blue Prison" has a novel football + battle royale type that directly points to the Japanese team's always weak striker. As long as you have the absolute strength to kick the ball into the goal, any tactics will appear very complicated and redundant. "Football Young Player" has allowed a generation of Japanese teenagers to choose a midfield position. "Blue Prison" may also be possible to find a forward-line answer for Japan.
(Look for Haaland - "Blue Prison")
In reality, technical and tactical issues will be left to professional coaches. The Japanese high school football championship shown in the comics has a history of a hundred years. Even in the Kyoto qualifiers for the high school football championship, tens of thousands of spectators entered the game to watch. The reason I specially chose this picture is because the girls in red who played the instruments and cheered for the team were the Blowing Music Club of Kyoto Orange University, known as the [Orange Demon].
This is also the famous Kyoto animation work "Blow it! In "The Bass", the prototype school of Lihua High School "The Water Demon". The musicians who won gold medals in the national competition and were invited to participate in the Disney parade played music for the team in an ordinary regional qualifier. How can such an atmosphere and such movement not touch people's hearts?
(Champion of the 100th Japan High School Football Championship - Aomori Yamada)
Not long before the Qatar World Cup started, there was a news from the Japanese team in the news media:
"Doanri Do: The Japanese team should not aim at the quarterfinals, but should aim at the championship"?
To be honest, most passers-by know that it is really impossible for the Japanese team to win the championship. This time, I'm afraid even if you qualify for the group, you will have to have a miracle.
and click on the content and saw a passage like this:
"Did you think you would lose from the beginning and don't participate in the competition? My goal is the champion. I think many people will think I am in a fool, but I think there will be people in Japan who support my ideas, so I think not to mention the quarterfinals, isn't it good to have a championship as the goal?"
"I think although this goal is not realistic, you must dare to do it on this stage. Yu Meng. When I was a child, I was afraid that people would be ridiculed by people as fools. But at that time, I was still dreaming like a fool. Now that I have come to this stage, how can I not dream? So I think we should set the goal of winning the championship. If there are such supporters, we can also fight side by side. I hope everyone can realize such a dream together and support us."
(Japanese media football-zone: "Tang Anlu used his fingers to himself after scoring the goal A diamond shape was drawn in front of the face, which is said to be adapted from the football comic "Scene Fantasy")
After reading this passage, his eyes were wet. It is really a two-dimensional country, and even the national players are like a passionate fool who comes out of the youth football comic.
But after all, isn't football a passionate sport? The reason why there are so many fans who sometimes cheer and sometimes cry for the players in the distant arena is because of such a spirit of daring to dream and fighting?
htm In the 108 European Cup, the French team regretfully left the court on a cold rainy night in Zurich. Football poet He Wei quoted the famous quote from the writer Flaubert to bid farewell to the French team. Perhaps this scene will soon be reproduced in the Japanese team- But, football is like life, the most important thing is not to give up."What we are most brilliant in our lives is not the day of success, but the day when we develop a desire to challenge life from lament and despair, and bravely move towards this challenge.”
This article comes from the official account: Intelligence Ji (ID: paperji), author: saru, published by Japan Communications with authorization.
※ This content is the author's independent viewpoint and does not represent the position of Japan Communications.
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