"In order not to let football fans across Japan forget, I will work hard to update."
On June 30, 2020, Kitano Makoto wrote such a sentence at the end of his first blog.
In the past 6 months, Kitano Makoto's blog has updated 41 articles, basically the rhythm of the week. At the same time, the 53-year-old has to worry about the team he coaches-Stella Nojima Kanagawa Sagamihara.
This team, which has been approved to enter the new Japanese Women's Football Professional WE League, only won the bottom third in the Japan Women's Football Nadeshiko League in the 2020 season, and only won a poor 4 games after 18 games in the season. . In March of this year, the WE League pre-season game will start; in September, the WE League will officially kick off, and the team coached by Kitano Makoto may still be the weakest existence.
However, Kitano Makoto was among them, and because he spent more time at home during the new crown, he finally found what he was most interested in outside of football-writing.
Kitano Makoto is actually a rather weird existence in Japanese football. He was born in high school and won the national championship with the team for two consecutive years. After graduation, he entered Hitachi, the predecessor of Kashiwa Sun God, and played for Kyoto when the J League opened. After retiring, he set foot in the club's reinforcement department, youth team, and adult team. Scouting, coaching, and experience studying abroad in Spain. After getting the S-level coaching certificate in 2008, he coached three J-League teams, Kumamoto, Sanuki and Gifu. In 9 years, he brought this four-nation amateur league team into the JFL and then upgraded to the J2 league; now, he is the head coach of the women's football league team.
In the words of Makoto Kitano, there is probably only one person with his experience in Japanese football. "I was just a second-rate player in the player era, not an elite at all, but in the coaching era, from kindergarten to J-League to women's football, from amateur league to youth training to professional football, I have coaching experience in all categories."
It is precisely because of these experiences that Makoto Kitano hopes to record his own experience in words, and introduce some unknown insider from time to time, and make a "blog that people who like football may be interested in."
is certainly an inside story, but it is not a gossip that everyone likes to hear. Because of his rich experience in the football circle, Kitano Makoto will not only describe some skills and tactics in his blog, but also introduce some behind-the-scenes situations, such as "how many people participate and spend time to promote a professional game" and other topics.
has coached in Sanuki for 9 years, which is Makoto Kitano's most precious coaching memory. With his humane coaching, he has conquered many people, and has his own support club "Sanuki Guichengkai" in the local area. When Makoto Kitano left Sanuki in 2018, fans bought an advertising space in the newspaper and thanked him for his contributions to hometown football over the years.
Recently, because of an article by Japanese reporter Kazuyuki Yokota, Makoto Kitano was a little bit angry. "The comedy artist Naoki Yuyoshi became a topic after winning the Akutagawa Award for "Spark". The former J-League coach, Makoto Kitano, who now coaches the Women's Football League, has entered the stage of preparing for his debut as a novelist with the Naoki Award as his goal."
6 Years ago, the Japanese comedy duo PEACE member Naoki Yuyoshi won the 153rd Akutagawa Award with his debut novel "Spark", becoming the first manga artist to win the Akutagawa Award in 80 years. In 2016, the Japanese TV series "Spark" produced by Netflix was rated 9.3 on Douban.
The Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize are the two most prestigious literary awards in Japan. Although the literary types and authorship of the two awards are different, the article by Yokota Kazuyuki is obviously Let’s compare the 53-year-old Makoto Kitano and Naoki Matuki.
Through the writing of the past six months, Makoto Kitano has indeed begun to create his own novel, and the background of the story is mainly based on his own experience in Sanuki. But apparently this passive PK with Naoki Matagi also brought him a lot of confusion.
After Yokota’s article was published by "Nikkan Sports", Kitano Makoto received a lot of information. It may be that he felt pressure, or it was his true thoughts. He then reposted the article on his Twitter I refuted the rumors: "No, no, this is creating a topic, I just wrote it as an extension of interest because of the long time at home,And the protagonist is not me, nor am I for the Naoki Award..."
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