Section 69 The Emperor's Cup
86_86638 Gao Shunyao's wonderful goal made him the focus of attention for a long time. His goals, his physique, and his nationality have all been talked about a lot by the Japanese media. However, this kind of discussion gradually faded as the game continued, after all, the JFL level is only a low-level league, although a wonderful goal will steal attention, but it is unlikely to be the focus of discussion. Except for lamenting a few words about Gao Shunyao's good physique, and complaining a few words about cultivating foreigners as a matter of raising tigers, the Japanese media has nothing new to say.
Such remarks have long been unable to arouse people's interest. The issue of Japanese football training players from other Asian countries is a common issue in Japan. Even Park Ji-sung, the core of South Korea's national team, went out from the Kyoto Immortal Bird of the J-League, and in addition to the envy and jealousy of Koreans, the Japanese can only say that he is actually cultivated by the Japanese every time South Korea mentions Park Ji-sung.
Cultivating foreigners is not news in Japan, and South Korea's top athletes playing in Japan is already an industrial chain, and the Japanese, who have trained a large number of Korean players, do not feel so incredible about training another Chinese player to play.
Moreover, after this game, Liujingda did not play very well in the next game, which also made the media lose interest.
In this round of the game, the flow of big kicks is quite lazy, they seem to have lost the idea of further competition for the championship, and the overall play is average. Gao Shunyao was replaced early in the 60th minute, and it seems that after the relegation was successful, they didn't care about the outcome of the game.
If it were another team, it would have been considered undeserved to give up the game at such a time. They are not low on points at the moment, and if they fight hard for a while, they may be in the top few of the league. However, Liujingda chose this way, and people who understand things quickly knew Liujingda's idea: anyway, they don't want to be promoted to J2, and it is not necessary to spend too much energy in the league. Compared to the league, there are more important things to consider now.
September has arrived, and there are less than ten rounds left in the league, so at this time, it is necessary to think about the Emperor's Cup. After all, compared to the JFL League, an amateur league, the Emperor's Cup is also a top-level competition. Whether they want to introduce their players to more teams, or want to build the prestige of the team and strive to recruit more good players next year, they should pay more attention to the Emperor's Cup.
This is one of Japan's top cups and is not to be missed.
Japan has two cup competitions, one is the League Cup and the other is the Emperor's Cup. The League Cup is a competition that decides the winner in the first half of each year. It only belongs to the J1 level, and even the J2 level professional teams cannot participate, and its influence is relatively limited.
The Emperor's Cup, on the other hand, is theoretically a tournament in which all football teams in Japan participate, and its model is somewhat similar to the FA Cup in England, with multiple levels of teams participating in it. Moreover, the winner of this cup can get a place in the continental competition. In the AFC Champions League regulations in 08, China, Japan and South Korea all have 4 places, and Japan has one place in addition to the top three in the league and the winner of the Emperor's Cup. This place also makes the Emperor's Cup more valued than the League Cup.
The tournament is held in the last two months of each year, and according to the requirements, 18 teams from J1, 15 teams from J2, the champion team from JFL, plus the winner of the Prime Minister's Cup, which is the championship of university football in Japan, and one football team from each of Japan's 47 prefectures, a total of 84 teams compete for the Emperor's Cup.
In the first and second rounds, 47 county teams and university teams competed together, with 12 of the 48 teams competing from the competition. Then they played a total of 28 teams in the third round against the 16 teams of the J2 and JFL champions, and 14 of them made the cut. Then, these 14 teams and 18 J1 League teams compete against a total of 32 teams, and 16 teams are decided, and the rest is a step-by-step game.
There are many teams participating in the Emperor's Cup, including professional teams, amateur teams, semi-professional local and corporate teams, and university teams. Because of the large number of participating teams and the wide coverage, and in such a competition, there is a high probability of upsets because they are not familiar with each other, so sometimes there will be some teams that can stick to it for a long time. Although the team that normally competes for the championship will still be a J1 team, it is also great to be able to make it to the J1 team in this competition.
Every year after the Emperor's Cup, players are selected by the professional teams of the J-League, relying on their outstanding performance in the J-League. And the flow of the big is now going to work hard to participate in the Emperor's Cup.
In the Emperor's Cup, if the qualifications for the championship and professional team are regulated, there is nothing about Keizai University - they are ranked in the middle of the JFL and have nothing to do with the championship. Although they are said to be a college team, they do not compete for the Prime Minister's Cup, and it has nothing to do with this championship. It seems that they are not qualified to participate in this competition, but if it comes to the representative teams of each county, then Liujing University is qualified to compete.
In fact, if theoretically, since each county has a representative team, then the champion team of the county's own county league is the best choice to participate in the football competition. But this kind of thing is easier said than done. Japanese people have always wanted to make their football in line with the world, but after all, Japanese football is not as deep in life as in Europe, and it has not been practiced for so many years, so naturally it will not penetrate into every prefecture. Japan's one capital, one prefecture, two prefectures and forty-three prefectures, not each of which has its own league, Japan has 9 prefecture leagues, but Japan has 47 prefectures, and the rest of the places do not have leagues.
Of course, Japan's nine higher-level regional leagues cover the whole country, and if so, it's enough to let the teams in your regional leagues play - but the question here is whether the teams in the regional leagues are the strongest teams in the prefecture.
There is another problem with Japan's football model: although they have their own prefectural leagues, the prefectural leagues are not the highest leagues in their prefectures. It's also a big question as to which league is better, the county amateur league or the college league. The average retirement age of Japanese football players is 25 years old, because the income of Japanese football is low, many people no longer insist on playing football after graduating from university, so the level of the amateur league is not high, and there is no fixed number of who is higher in the amateur league and the university league, who is more representative of their county? This is also a problem.
Because of this system, the way for each prefecture at this time is to consider holding qualifying tournaments and selecting the best teams from different leagues. Generally speaking, the teams that make the county top in the regional college league, the teams that are the top in the regional league, and the teams that can establish themselves in the JFL are mixed together to compete for a team to represent the county.
The regional league is a higher level than the prefectural league, and the teams that can be at the top of this division are certainly not low. The university league also has geographical distinctions, and some university teams also have no shortage of talent. Being able to gain a foothold in those two leagues can basically try to play with the JFL league - the professional teams in the J-League can directly qualify for the tournament without having to consider representing their own county, so the elite teams in these amateur leagues have become the main contenders.
According to this regulation, the University of Distribution Economics is also eligible to compete.
There are some large campuses in Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures, but they apply according to the school headquarters in Ibaraki Prefecture. The qualification competition for Ibaraki Prefecture is to compete with the best team of Ibaraki Prefecture in Kanto Division 1 and Kanto University Division 1 in Kanto University.
"It's fair to say that we have qualified, and there is almost no doubt about it. We were originally promoted from the Kanto 1st rank, and there was no team in there that could compete with us. As for the college team, there is no difficulty. It's very easy for us to get this place. ”
When talking about the Emperor's Cup, Lin Zhangyang, as a veteran player, also explained to them. He's also quite optimistic. Although the strength of the teams in the Kanto region is quite strong, it is not a problem for the flow of the country.
What he said is also very right: Kanto 1 aside, in the Kanto University 1 league, the best team in Ibaraki Prefecture is also the Liutai - although in this league, the second team is only ranked fifth, but the first four teams are all teams from Tokyo, and the only team from Ibaraki Prefecture is they and the University of Tsukuba, which is behind them. Competing for qualification with a team that can't even play its own second team, the team is of course very relieved.
Qualifying is a proper thing, so the team will naturally think about how the team should play when they really go to play in the Emperor's Cup. If you want to represent Ibaraki Prefecture, then the qualifying tournament and the first and second rounds of the Emperor's Cup will have a certain conflict with the JFL event. Playing on two fronts is a bit difficult for a young team like Liujingdai, and there is no need for it, so in order to better cope with the Emperor's Cup competition, Liujingdaiya decided to stay in the league.
That's why Ko Soon-yao only played 60 minutes in the game, and now his energy is also focused on the Emperor's Cup.
Gao Shunyao did not object to the arrangement of the team: although he did not like the names of the Emperor's Cup and the Prime Minister's Cup, he cared more about the game itself than the name.
He also cares about how many rounds his team can survive in this competition: if you want to talk about it, the first two rounds don't seem to be a big problem, everyone is an amateur team, and Gao Shunyao will not be afraid of teams from other counties. However, if you reach the third round and meet the J2 League, or in the fourth round, after you meet the J1 League, will your team still have a fight with them? That's an interesting question.
Gao Shunyao has always thought that his team is strong, but can he compete with the professional team? He wanted to know about it too