Chapter 163: Pro-China

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After hearing this, Saburo Kawabuchi suddenly realized that he even forgot his identity for a while, and unconsciously patted his thigh and said, "That's a good point!" In fact, what we need most is a scorer like Gao Jun, but it's a pity that you are not Japanese, otherwise we can even win the World Cup! ”

"Thank you for lifting, but I'm proud to be Chinese." Gao Jun shook his head lightly and replied, "But the midfield of the Japanese team is really strong, so your striker's ability to get rid of it is not so important, and it is enough to have a pure shooter like Da Yu in our team, which is very different from the requirements of our Chinese team." However, the most important thing is that Japan has formed a tradition of technical flow play over the years, so it is relatively easy to find technical strikers with good running position and good marksmanship, while those with excellent strength or degree are hard to find. ”

"Thanks again for your advice!" , Saburo Kawabuchi bowed to Gao Jun again. Because of the excitement in his heart, this time he even used an honorific title, you must know that the Japanese even care more about the elder and the younger than the Chinese, with Saburo Kawabuchi is nearly seventy years old and the helm of Japanese football, he is actually so polite to Gao Jun, a young player under the age of 17, after the news comes out, it is estimated that Japanese public opinion will be in an uproar

"I hope that the Japanese team can become as strong as possible, don't make me wait too long, football has a good opponent, it is more interesting." , Gao Jun's words when they were separated made Saburo Kawabuchi, who had said goodbye and left, almost fall, and he realized that the seemingly low-key and introverted young man on the hospital bed was actually more proud than anyone else in his bones. And the Japanese team, which once thought it was the hegemon of Asia, was so despised by others, which made Saburo Kawabuchi feel deeply humiliated, but at the same time as the shame, there was another emotion that had been buried for many years from the bottom of Saburo Kawabuchi's heart

Unlike the government's increasing rightward shift, Japan's sports community has long maintained relatively good relations with their Chinese counterparts, and football is no exception. At the beginning, Japanese football was reduced to the second-rate football in Asia, and around the theme of "revitalizing Japanese football", Japanese football people formed two distinct factions because of their different attitudes towards Chinese football.

One of them believes that only when Chinese football declines can Japanese football have any hope of rising to become the hegemon of Asia, so they advocate doing everything possible to suppress Chinese football to avoid being overshadowed by this giant like basketball and other sports. It is also worth mentioning that because "only the end is the end, and the means are not scrupulous." This faction is also the main proponent of the practice of using unfair means such as referees to obtain good results.

The other school believes that only the rise of Chinese football, the level of Asian football can be fundamentally improved, and because of the particularity of football, when the football population reaches a certain order of magnitude, it is of little significance to increase, so Japanese football does not have to worry about being left too far like other sports, if the Chinese team can reach the world-class level, then the Japanese team will at least have the world's second-rate level, if you are lucky, it is not impossible to win a world championship once in a while. People in this faction would like to see this prospect more than to keep Asian football at a low level and then the Japanese team to be the king of the monkeys.

The difference of views between the two factions is, to put it bluntly, a dispute between the "chicken head" and the "phoenix tail", but it is also somewhat mixed with some Japanese ambivalent feelings towards the Chinese, and in fact, the latter faction is often denounced as "pro-China" by the other faction. Compared with football, this kind of "pro-China" is more common in other sports, the most typical example is that Hirofumi Omatsu came to China to coach and lay the foundation for the rise of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

The reason why this is so is that sports is a science, no matter how the Japanese government belittles China and the Chinese in its propaganda, these sports professionals also understand that there is not much difference between Chinese and Japanese in terms of innate physical qualities, and even Chinese physical qualities are better (Note 1), especially for athletes whose physical qualities are generally too ordinary, coupled with the large Chinese population and vast territory, so the selection space and diversity of athletes' types are far greater than those of Japan. Therefore, almost all Japanese sports people in their right minds have to admit a cruel fact: as long as China has a good sports program, Japan will not be able to compete with it in any way

In this regard, some relatively narrow-minded Japanese sports people think that it is necessary to suppress their Chinese counterparts to the death, so that Japanese sports can at least ensure their status in Asia, but there are also some Japanese sports people with a broader vision who believe that Japan is constrained by the lack of population, and can only reach the world's leading level in a few sports at most, and only China, which has a large number of people, will be able to challenge the dominance of Western countries in this field and prove that the yellow race, especially the East Asians, is no worse than the white race. This makes more sense for Japan than trying to thwart China's athletic shows and dominate the low-level Asian competition.

In the Japanese football world, this faction also has a lot of influence, when Japan first engaged in the professional league, it had introduced a number of outstanding players from China, among which Jia Xiuquan also beat a number of world-class stars hired by the Japanese with high salaries (of course, they are all outdated senior stars) and was elected as the best foreign aid in the J League that year

However, with the rapid rise of Japanese football at the end of the 20th century, and the stagnation and even decline of Chinese football, Japanese football fans looked down on Chinese football more and more, and the "pro-China faction" in Japanese football gradually declined. However, in the past few years, the brilliant achievements of China's national brands at all levels have caused a large number of Japanese fans to re-examine Chinese football, and the influence of the "pro-China" faction has also begun to rebound rapidly

Note 1: Even after the war, the Japanese government's means of national fitness and nutrition intervention have greatly improved the physical quality of ordinary people, but due to congenital limitations, it is difficult to continue to improve after the ** decade, and after the nineties, with the improvement of living conditions of Chinese, the basic physical qualities such as height and weight of young people have actually become anti-Japanese again, but there are still many unscrupulous media for some ulterior purposes, always using old information to attack Chinese's self-confidence

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