The semester schedule of universities in Japan is different from that in China, where the academic year begins in April and ends at the end of March, with the first semester (first semester) from April to September, and the second semester (second semester) from October to March of the following year. The university holidays in Japan are different from those in China, with three holidays a year: summer vacation from early August to the end of September, winter vacation from late December to mid-January, and spring vacation from early February to the end of March.

In other words, Japanese students only have about 5 months of vacation every year, which is one of the reasons why Japanese students often go out to work during the holidays.

Ringer's summer vacation this year, in addition to working part-time is to practice, soon the two-month vacation will pass, and the second semester is about to begin.

Two months of practice had made Ringer improve a lot, at least that's what he thought, so he told the fat man what he thought.

"What? Are you going to turn professional? Big brother, you're not wrong with your brain, right? You're 20 years old, and now you're just saying you're going to play professional football, you don't think it's great to be able to pass two people, right? That's what we deliberately let you do, buddy, you don't really think you're so good, are you? The fat man did have reason to be shocked, because Ringer's decision was so sudden.

But seeing that Ringer still looked like a king eating scales, the fat man was even more distressed: "It's over, I don't dare to see your father and mother when I go back like this, they thought I kidnapped you to Japan, and now if you run to play football, I can't tell if I have ten mouths." ”

"Kobayashi, you are a top student of Tokyo University, why do you have to run to compete with those few football players, you look at those professional players in the Japanese league, how many of them can earn money, you study hard in college, and you can earn more than them when you come out and find a job in the future." The fat man can be regarded as a bitter woman.

The fat man is so worried, in fact, he has no confidence in Ringer to play football, and being an ordinary professional player in a mess does not have much future, at least for now. As far as their nearest Japanese J League is concerned, the average annual salary of the top J1 League players is more than 10 million yen, which is 60 to 700,000 yuan when converted into RMB, and the average annual salary of the J2 League is only about 5 million yen, which is even lower in the lower leagues.

It doesn't seem to be too little, but to make a horizontal comparison, the current average annual salary in Japan is more than 4 million yen, that is, the players in the J2 league are only on par with the salary standard of ordinary people, and the players in the lower leagues are dragging down Japan's GDP. Lin Gedong's identity as a college student, after graduation, he casually found a white-collar job for two years, and his salary was higher than that of most people in the J1 League, so the fat man felt that there was something wrong with his head.

China has begun to enter the era of Jinyuan football, many people think that those who play football earn more, but in Japan, only playing in the J1 league is considered a good job, playing in the lower leagues, that is not as good as ordinary people, especially in recent years, from time to time there will be news such as low-level league players going to convenience stores to steal things (the salary is too low to make ends meet, and stealing is inevitable), and the image of low-level league players is not very good.

"Fatty, I'm just informing you that I've made a decision, and I'm not consulting you."

"I've really met a god, so tell me, how do you become a professional player?"

"I'm a 20-year-old college student, and it may be difficult to change careers to play football in other countries, but it's not difficult in Japan, and the training of professional players in Japan is club youth training and campus football training, and many people transfer from school to play professional football every year."

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Club youth training plus campus football, this is the football path that Japanese footballers have come out of after years of exploration, and the current effect is not bad, and a lot of good players have been cultivated, such as Hidetoshi Nakata, the first Asian brother before Park Ji-sung, Shinji Kagawa of Dortmund in the Bundesliga, Yuto Nagatomo who is about to join Inter Milan, No. 10 Keisuke Honda of AC Milan in the future, Shinji Okazaki who completed a hat trick in the 11 Asian Cup, these stars are cultivated in this mode.

Now Japanese football has long been ranked first in Asia, but they have also worked hard, and they were also very good in the early years, and they can win their level at will when they go to China. Speaking of which, the hottest sport in Japan has long been baseball, and even now, the popularity of Japanese baseball is no worse than football, and Major League Baseball has always had stars from Japan in charge, which is the long-term baseball culture that has cultivated.

Before the 60s, there were very few people playing soccer in Japan, and young people played baseball, and many people didn't even know what football was.

In 1960, Tokyo won the right to host the next 1964 Olympic Games, which was a big event for Japan and gave the opportunity for the development of Japanese football, because the Japanese government had to fight for medals in every event at home, and Olympic football was one of them, so the Japanese Olympic team came into being (doesn't it sound a bit like the model of Olympic football in '08).

At that time, there were only two kinds of people who played football in Japan, one was corporate workers, and corporate worker football was influenced by the Western corporate football culture, which is said to have been brought back by Japanese entrepreneurs who went abroad to study at that time, and the other was college students, who were the most widely seen group of people, and they knew that the world's number one sport was football, not baseball, as many people in Japan thought.

Enterprise workers are often a group of middle-aged and elderly uncles, and the Japanese Football Association can't always form an uncle national Olympic team to participate in the Olympic Games, so the selection scope of the Japanese national Olympic team is narrowed, and people are selected from college students to form the national Olympic team.

The University of Tokyo is the best university in Japan and the best Japanese university in line with the world, so at that time, the University of Tokyo's school football team was the strongest football team in Japan, so the main target of the Japanese Olympic team was the University of Tokyo football team. Several core players from the University of Tokyo, plus good players selected by other universities, formed the Japanese Olympic team at that time.

Because football was not valued at that time, the training venue was arranged in the school football field of the University of Tokyo, and at the same time, the University of Tokyo had the most students in the team, and the team uniform was temporarily used in the blue school uniform of the University of Tokyo.

To what extent was Japanese football not taken seriously at that time? As the national football team representing the country, they also have to make concessions to the University of Tokyo baseball team during training.

The University of Tokyo only has a lawn, and the football team and the baseball team are training on it, and if they come together, the football team has to take the initiative to give up the field to the baseball team, because baseball is the first sport, and football is a sport that few people know about at all (in Japan at that time), and this tradition has also been inherited to the Japanese Olympic team, which was born to the stepmother, and if they meet the baseball team training, they can only go to the sideline to run laps, and the field is given to the school baseball team.

Under such conditions, a group of young people relied on their enthusiasm to win glory for the country, and they actually played an effect, they reached the quarterfinals of the '64 home Olympics, and then won the bronze medal at the '68 Mexico Olympics, which set off a football boom in Japan for a while.

Due to the outstanding results of this national Olympic team, they naturally transferred to the Japanese national team, and today's home blue jersey of the Japanese national team inherits the tradition of the blue jersey of the University of Tokyo at that time.

Of course, when we go back today, we can say that there is a lot of luck in that grassroots team to achieve this kind of result.

Because it was the most neglected period of Olympic football, the teams sent by European football powers to participate in the Olympic Games were often composed of a few marginal players of the national team plus a group of amateur players, even the Nobel Prize winner in physics Boer represented Denmark in the Olympic Games, and won the Olympic football silver medal with the team, this kind of Olympic team is not necessarily much better than the Japanese Olympic Games, but I have to say that that group of people did promote football to all corners of Japan and laid a good foundation for the rise of Japanese football.