After two Olympic games, the Japanese team went back to the old ways, and everything was calm, they were never professional footballers who had been trained since childhood, and the Japanese team should have lost or lost.

But with the success of that time, Japanese football embarked on the path of elite training, and they thought that they could select dozens of people to train them to play football in the same way that they cultivated the national Olympic team, and they could also cultivate a strong national team.

But this method turned out to be unworkable, and in the next 20 years, Japanese football has been at the middle and lower reaches of Asia for a long time, not to mention the World Cup, the Japanese team can't even pass the Asian Cup qualifiers, and there has been a 2:5 defeat to Thailand (is it a fight with the Chinese team's 1:5 loss to Thailand). In the early days, the Japanese team did not participate in many international competitions, and the Chinese team had never lost to Japan before 84 years.

In the 80s, Japan's economy grew by leaps and bounds, and there was a tendency to surpass the United States to become the world's largest economy.

With the failure of the elite model, Japanese football began to learn from Western countries and planned to follow the club youth model.

Since the 80s, the Japanese Football Association began to brew a professional league, but at that time, Japan's domestic teams, except for the campus team, were all corporate teams, and those companies had a lot of concerns about the professional league, afraid of losing money, afraid that spending money would not be effective, and the professional league had been difficult to deliver.

Under these circumstances, the publication of a manga called "Soccer Player" attracted some attention, and a year later, the manga was adapted into an anime, which was actively promoted by major Japanese television stations, and quickly became popular throughout Japan.

Behind the popularity of this anime, it is actually the Japanese government's efforts to promote the development of football and to carry out professional leagues. This manga influenced a generation of Japanese teenagers who were introduced to football.

In addition, the Japanese Football Association has also brought in a large number of youth coaches from all over the world (mainly Brazil, which is why Japanese players, like Brazilian players, pay special attention to foot skills), after all, the purpose of the professional league is to put Japanese football on the path of youth training.

Under the promotion of the government, followed by Japan's first Asian Cup in 88 (eliminated in the group stage), Japan unexpectedly reached the top in the Asian Cup in 92 (no one thought Japan could win the championship that year, but the Japanese are like this, always exploding in local competitions, Japan defeated the Chinese team 3:2 in the semifinals), these have given Japanese football great confidence, so the Japanese professional football J League was finally officially established in 93, and Japanese football began to embark on the club youth training model.

For the establishment of the J-League, I have to mention one person, Saburo Kawabuchi, who was also a member of the Japanese Olympic team in '64 and graduated from Waseda University, he is the kind of person who really loves football. After his retirement, Saburo Kawabuchi served as a corporate team coach and also served as the head coach of the Japanese national team, and later the Japanese Football Association planned to establish a professional league, and he ran around to actively contact major companies, and he contributed greatly to the establishment of the J-League, and was known as the godfather of Japanese football.

In the early days of the J-League, the Japanese people's enthusiasm for football was high, coupled with the rapid development of the economic level, the J-League became the representative of Jinyuan football, and many European famous players came to Japan to pan for gold after retiring.

The only England striker Lineker who has won the World Cup top scorer, the famous Brazilian stars Zico, Dunga, Bebeto, Danish legend Da Laudrup, Italian star Schillac, former Yugoslav star Stojkovic (is now the head coach of Guangzhou R&F in the Chinese Super League), Bulgarian star Stoichkov (played for Barcelona, won the World Cup top scorer, hot-tempered people are known as Thunderbolt, once lost the championship by accident at home, He rushed directly into the away team's locker room and smashed the trophy that his opponent got), and even famous players such as Hong Myung-bok and Choi Yong-so in South Korea were attracted by Kim Won of the J-League, which at that time could be said to be huge and full of famous players.

For example, at that time, the average annual salary of Japanese J-League players reached 25 million yen, which is more than 2 million yuan, and you can imagine what it was like to earn 2 million a year in the 90s (the situation in the J-League at that time was similar to the current Jinyuan football in the Chinese Super League).

The J-League's boom gave the Japanese confidence in football, but they were suddenly hit hard at the end of '93.

That year, Japan won the right to host the 02 World Cup, and the Japanese football team set the goal of reaching the World Cup in the United States in '94. (The 02 World Cup was first given to Japan alone, and later the stick country thought that it was the representative of Asian football, why did Japan not give us the qualification to host the event, so he ran to FIFA to make all kinds of trouble, FIFA and mud, and at that time Japan had never entered the World Cup and was a little weak, so he agreed to jointly hold it, which led to the god-level performance of the stick country in 02)

In the final round of the World Cup qualifiers at the end of 93, Japan only needed to win to enter the World Cup for the first time, they were 2:1 ahead for 90 minutes, but in three minutes of injury time, they were scored by Iraq, and finally missed the World Cup, which was called a tragedy by the Japanese Doha (is it very familiar, full of the taste of the Chinese team's black three minutes).

Saburo Kawabuchi, who was the president of the J-League at the time, realized that the prosperity of the J-League had indeed promoted the development of Japanese football, but it had also made Japanese football seem impetuous, eager for quick success, and that such a thing as the Doha tragedy would happen, so he began to seek some solutions.

Visiting the youth training camps of major Japanese clubs, Saburo Kawabuchi saw that the club's youth training is not developed enough, mainly because of the limited source of young players, which is caused by the fact that the club's scouting system is not as developed as in Europe, and the second is that there are still a few children playing football in Japan, and the football population is naturally insufficient, just like the land is naturally barren and the food is naturally not good (the same as the current domestic football environment in China).

In the process of searching for a solution, Saburo Kawabuchi discovered that Japan has a long history of school football, and in the thirties and forties, international students returning from Europe began to organize campus football teams.

In the fifties, there was a prototype of the Japanese school football league, but for a long time without financial support and the suppression of domestic school baseball, Japanese school football can only barely maintain, and it has been in a half-dead state for a long time, only the high school football league and the college football league are slightly better.

In view of this, Saburo Kawabuchi intends to support campus football and combine campus football with club youth training.

Saburo Kawabuchi first persuaded the Japanese Football Association, and then launched his own relationship to give campus football funds and policy support, so campus football developed rapidly, and it became popular in a few years, and football was also listed as a compulsory subject in Japanese primary schools, which virtually cultivated a large number of football population, and at the same time could observe whether children had the talent to play football. Saburo Kawabuchi then encouraged major Japanese clubs to look for youth seedlings in schools, and if they see a suitable one, they can sign into the academy.

As a result, the unique model of Japanese football, youth training plus school football, was born, most children have been exposed to football since childhood, and after they show their talent, they will be called into the youth academy by professional clubs, but it will not interrupt their studies, they must read until they graduate from high school to become professional footballers, and if they want, they can even finish college and then play professional football.

During their studies, they received youth training at the club and participated in campus competitions at the same time as they studied at school, and the club could not force them to end their studies early to participate in professional competitions.

Under this model, Japanese football began to enter a period of rapid development, and football talents emerged in an endless stream, even after the Japanese economy suffered a heavy blow and the salaries of professional players fell sharply, this unique model still continued to produce good players.

Today, Japan is the country with the best development of school football in the world, and after winning the Shenzhen University Games this year, Japan's university football team has won the men's football championship of the World University Games for four consecutive years (the World University Games are held every two years).