Ringer is complaining, complaining about his annual salary - 1.8 million yen, which is more than 100,000 yuan when converted into RMB. The annual salary is more than 100,000 yuan, which is converted into a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan. The monthly salary of playing football is less than 10,000, can you believe this? But in Japan, this is the status quo, and it is no wonder that young players with a little ability want to go to Europe and play as a substitute in any team in the big five leagues, and the salary is higher than the highest salary in the J-League in Japan, and the highest salary in the J-League is only available to veterans.

Fortunately, Ringer doesn't care about that, at least for now.

The Spring Festival of 2012 was very early, on January 23. Japan also has a tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival, and after the Spring Festival, the J-League will start training and preparation, and the day of the Tokyo FC meeting is February 1.

As a newcomer, Ringer came to Tiaobu early and had to familiarize himself with the situation first. As a suburb of Tokyo, Chofu is 20 kilometers away from the city of Tokyo, and Ringer does not have a car of his own, so it is naturally impossible to return to the city to live. He lives next to the club, which is a bachelor apartment arranged by the club.

On 1 February, the day of FC Tokyo's 2012 training camp and the press conference for the new season, Ringer arrived at the club early.

When he came to the locker room, Ringer, as a newcomer, had to go over and greet them one by one.

"Hello, Captain Tokunaga."

"Mori Shige-san, please take care of me."

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According to what he learned, Ringer greeted the salutes one by one, and the so-called etiquette is not strange to many people, especially in Japan.

Tokyo FC has changed a lot this season, and the club unexpectedly won the Emperor's Cup last season, and the team's captain, defensive core, and Japanese international Yasuyuki Konno contributed a lot, but during the transfer period, Yasuyuki Konno was poached by Gamba Osaka, who has deep pockets.

However, after qualifying for the AFC Champions League, the club has also increased its investment slightly, the team has changed a lot of players, and there have been large-scale changes in the front, middle and back fields. For Ringer, his main rivals are all in midfield.

The core of Tokyo FC's forward line last season was the team's foreign player, Brazilian center Lucas. Lucas is a 32-year-old Brazilian veteran who moved to Rennes in Ligue 1 for €21 million in 2000, although he was unsuccessful in Europe before moving to Japan.

Lucas first played for Tokyo FC for more than 3 years, and although he did not achieve much success, he made a name for himself and earned the nickname of J-League Ronaldo, and then switched back to J-League giants Gamba Han. During Lucas's three years in Gamba Osaka, as the main striker, he helped Gamba Osaka win a league championship, two cup championships and an AFC Champions League championship, and was definitely the hottest foreign aid in the J League in the past few years, but now he is a little old, so he left Gamba and invited him back after the unexpected relegation of Tokyo FC, and he lived up to expectations last season to help the team be promoted.

On the front line, Tokyo FC also brought in striker Chima Watanabe from Yokohama Mariner in the new season. Chima Watanabe is a Japanese international who has represented Japan in the Asian Cup for 11 years and won the championship with the team. Although Watanabe was mostly on the bench when Japan won the championship that year, being selected to participate in international competitions has already proved his strength.

Lucas is a typical high school striker, who can be used as a fulcrum in the penalty area and can also grab points to attack the goal, which is not the same style as Ringer, and Chima Watanabe is Ringer's rival. Watanabe is also a college player, graduated from Waseda University, he is characterized by fast speed, sharp sense of smell in front of goal, which coincides with Ringer to a certain extent, Tokyo FC signed Ringer, it is not meant to play a substitute for Watanabe.

Of course, Tokyo FC also have Sota Hirayama and Brazilian Cesar on the bench, and perhaps Ringer is not as important as the manager at the moment.

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On the first day of the new season, there was no training scheduled at all, and the more important thing on the first day was the press conference. Head coach Bobovic and club president Kenji Akune looked ahead to the new season in front of the media, followed by the players gathering for the media to take pictures, but Ringer was really an inconsequential little person, only showing him in the team's new signings and the whole team, and other times he could only watch.

However, Ringer is not idle, he has been standing on the side to observe, the current team captain is 28-year-old right-back Yuhei Tokunaga, Yasuyuki Konno went to Gamba Osaka, he was promoted from vice-captain to captain, but the most authoritative in the team's locker room is the current vice-captain Morishige Maru, Morishige was Yasuyuki Konno's central defender partner last season, and now he is the team's vice-president, it seems that he will be the team's new defensive core in the new season.

There is also the head coach of the team, Ranko Bobovic, who should be a manager that the media likes, because he seems to like to talk a lot, and he keeps talking in front of the media today.

"The team's goal for the new season is to win every game"

"The guaranteed goal of the AFC Champions League is the top 16"

"The domestic league must qualify for at least the AFC Champions League next year."

Bobovic was super confident, but Kenji Akune, the president of the club on the side, turned dark.

It's not for nothing that FC Tokyo has been playing in the J-League for many years and is only now playing in the AFC Champions League for the first time.

Tokyo FC Club shares are scattered, Tokyo Gas, Tokyo Electric Power Company and Tokyo TV are all club shareholders, but the largest shareholder is Tokyo Gas, so Tokyo FC is also known as Tokyo Gas Team in Japan, which is quite down-to-earth.

Tokyo Gas is not a big company, so it is naturally impossible to come up with too much money to support the club's operations, so the team has been in the middle of the J-League for a long time.

Last season, he unexpectedly qualified for the AFC Champions League, and Tokyo Gas decided to bleed heavily, and took out 100 million yen (about 6 million RMB) to strengthen the lineup in one go, and the whole team carried out a metabolism of up to 12 people, but this investment is only slightly higher than the average level of J-League teams, and Tokyo FC is still a promoted horse, and the core of the defense has been poached, so no one is optimistic about Tokyo FC's first trip to the AFC Champions League.

Japan's famous sports magazine "Nikkan Sports" said: Tokyo FC needs to be ready at any time, once the league is in trouble, immediately give up the AFC Champions League and come back to relegation, if it encounters relegation again, it may be a devastating blow to the team, and it is possible to have consecutive relegations.

Now that the Serbs are constantly making nonsense there, Ajiune has predicted that Tokyo FC will be the target of ridicule in the newspapers tomorrow.

Sure enough, the next day, the media reported on the media meeting of Tokyo FC, and Bobovich successfully "started" his fame, and there was even more ridicule on the Japanese Internet.

"Top 16? The Gas team should be happy that they are not at the bottom of the group. ”

"I thought Tokyo had Pep Guardiola or Jose Mourinho as the manager."

"I hope I don't want to make the biggest score of the Japanese team in the AFC Champions League (losing)"

"I was poached by Gangba and Konno (Taiyuki), I think it's better to target relegation."

"Bobovich's last name reminds me of the head coach of the NBA Spurs, but judging by yesterday's performance, this guy may be the first head coach to be sacked from the J-League, and the Gases may be the first team to start relegation in the new season."

However, the Tokyo players will not be able to see this for the time being, as they will go to Kagoshima for training the next day, where preparations for the new season will begin.