"Football Player" can achieve such a big success and make more people like football, which is what Xu Qian wants to see!

In another world, "Soccer Player" has such power!

Of course, that's in the island nation!

This anime can be said to have witnessed the whole process of island country football from the bottom to the strong, and it has also guided countless children in island countries and even the world to embark on the road of football.

Before the birth of this anime, the football of the island country was at the lowest point in history, and the consecutive Olympic Games and the World Cup failed, and on December 26, 1980, in the World Cup qualifiers, the island country lost 0-1 to China, and missed the qualification to enter the 82 Spain World Cup, which was the "winter era" of island football.

In this context, in 1983, "Soccer Player" began to be serialized, and it quickly became a success, so that the people and young people of the island country began to pay attention to this anime, and then began to love football.

In 1983, when the series began, there were only 110,000 registered elementary school students, but in 1988, when the series ended, the number reached 240,000 (630,000 players under the age of 18 in 2010). Along with the big air wing, more and more children began to appear on the streets and parks to play football, and before you knew it, football became a natural existence around you.

Of course, the rise of island football is also thanks to Saburo Kawabuchi for proposing a "Centennial Plan" that looks a bit secondary!

This plan includes what seems to be a feasible plan for Japan's football region, the annual income of the Football Association, and grassroots plans, as well as some unrealistic "dreams" such as 5 million football associations in 2015 and becoming one of the top 10 football associations in the world, 10 million football in 2050, and holding another World Cup and winning the championship.

This plan can be said to be unknowing, but people dare to act!

However, with the hit of "Football Player", such a somewhat unscrupulous plan has become a reality step by step under the strong execution of the island people.

Since the beginning of the anime, a group of players influenced by "Soccer Player" have embarked on the path of professional soccer players. In an interview before the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, 16 of the 23 players in the Japanese national team said that they started playing because they watched "Soccer Player". And Hidetoshi Nakata, Shinji Ono, Shunsuke Nakamura, Shinji Kagawa and others are all big fans of the manga.

This influence is not only reflected in hobbies, but also in style. In the past ten years, 15,000 Japanese players have followed in the footsteps of Okuta and studied football in Brazil through various means, which directly led to the Japanese Football Association's later positioning of the team's style in the Brazilian technical stream.

As of 2018, the Japanese men's soccer team has reached the World Cup finals seven times, and the round of 16 in the 2002 and 2010 World Cups. The Japanese women's soccer team won the Women's World Cup in 2011.

Catalyzed by the "magical realism" anime, the seemingly "middle two" dream of the Japanese is being realized in a very "burning" way!

In addition, apart from Japan, the influence of this anime around the world is equally astounding.

According to reports, when Gattuso was a child, he would even give up playing football and go home at 4:30 p.m., because "Soccer Player" started broadcasting at that point. Italian stars such as Zambrotta, Piero and Totti were fans of young footballers when they were young. It seems that Italy introduced young footballers relatively early......

At the same time, there are records to follow, saying that their football careers have been influenced by young footballers, including Zidane, Henry, Messi, Kaka, Torres, Iniesta, Sanchez, J Ronaldo and others (in no particular order). Although only 10 million copies of "Soccer Player" have been sold overseas, Shueisha also said that the number of unauthorized circulation in various countries and regions is far greater than this figure.

Cafu: Thank you Yoichi Takahashi for letting Okutsuba choose Brazil. (Tsubasa Okura studied in Brazil in the manga)

Totti: I started playing football for the first time because of "Soccer Player", and I even broke a bone in order to practice Hinata's special move 'Tiger Shot'. ”

Piero: I'm a fan of Misakitaro [Tsubasa Ozora's partner in Soccer Player") and I've practiced his short passes hundreds of times.

Gattuso's motto: I'm a brave Ishizaki who will defend alone. (Ishizaki is a teammate of Okutsubasa in "Soccer Player", serving as a defender)

Gilardino once wore a T-shirt with large wings printed on it when he was dating his girlfriend.

When Inzaghi arrived in Japan at the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, he frantically bought a lot of single books of "Football Player" as souvenirs.

In addition, there is a small episode that is very interesting. Yoichi Takahashi in "Football Player - Road to 2002", let Tsubasa Okuba transfer from Sao Paulo to Barcelona. After learning about this, Barcelona also immediately gave him a VIP qualification for free admission for one year, and the then Real Madrid president Sanz openly questioned: "Why don't you let the big air wing fight side by side with Raul?"

Of course, we can't overstate the impact of "Soccer Player". Some of the stories in the above part are supported by reports or pictures, and some of the stories may have more or less elements of interpretation by fans and journalists...... But there is no doubt that people are willing to believe that "Soccer Player" has such magic.

In fact, the impact of "Soccer Player" on the real world continues, which also proves its important impact on Japanese football -

In 2013, the football club named after the manga Nam Ge SC was officially established, and the team uniform was also designed according to the style in the manga, with cyan stripes on a white background, and the goal was to be promoted to the J3 League in 2020.

In 2014, Japan's J-League announced that Tsubasa Osora, the protagonist of "Soccer Player", had been appointed as the "J-League Asia Promotion Ambassador", and his tenure would last until the end of April 2014.

Japan's J-League has launched a campaign called dreamshoot, which allows stars to imitate the special moves of "Soccer Player".

Not to mention, at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics, the football teenager Tsubasa Okora, along with classic characters such as Doraemon and Uncle Mario, appeared on the stage of Tokyo for eight minutes, becoming a representative of sports anime characters, which is enough to prove its huge influence.

It should be said that to this day, the influence of young football players has not diminished with the passage of time!

The age at which children watch Soccer Players is when they are gradually building their dreams, and if they are interested in football, it is completely too late to join a professional team.

It is precisely because of the existence of these seemingly "super-physical reality" nirvana that the children put more energy on football, and they have tried to "shoot the tiger" and "shoot the curve" again and again on the green field.

When we are no longer young, now we look back at this anime, and while we smile when we see the stunts, we feel that time is not there, and we reminisce about the beautiful memories of the golden age of our lives!

In another world, "Football Player" can achieve such brilliant achievements, so Xu Qian is not surprised when these achievements are made in this world, he just hopes that the country can also introduce a "centennial plan", even if it is unrealistic, even if it is whimsical, only with the strong support of the national level, Chinese football can develop better and better!