“Kyogoal！”
On 20 December, the Scottish League Cup final, Easter Avenue Stadium, Celtic fans shouted the word twice. That meant that Japanese striker Hiroshi Furuhashi scored two goals.
It was thanks to These two goals from Furuhashi that gave the Celtics a 2-1 comeback victory over Hibernian and their first championship trophy on their way back to the Soviet Super League.
This is also the first championship trophy of Furuhashi Hengo to land in Europe.
However, this is not a short-lived story.
This season, he has scored 13 goals for Hisono Furuhashi in 22 games for his team. That's why fans have combined goal on top of his English name , Kyogo , which has become their favorite phrase now.
Even because Furuhashi is always calm and confident when he kicks in the door, now whenever he gets a one-handed opportunity, some impatient fans have begun to hide their inner excitement and start shouting - "Kyogoal! ”
26-year-old Furuhashi, this is only his first season after staying in the Ocean.
Before coming to the Celtics this summer, Iniesta, who played with him for the Kobe Victory Ship, deliberately wrote on social media: "My friend, it is a pleasure to be in the same locker room with you and witness your rapid growth." I'm glad you've fulfilled your dream of playing in Europe and good luck. ”
Once, Furuhashi Washi was discouraged because he did not get the opportunity, and almost gave up his football dream. Later, he was there
Iniesta received points and guidance from his side and is now a Celtic hero. This road is the story of The Ancient Bridge Hengwu.
【"I really envy Takumi Minano"】
Furuhashi Heono High School attends a prestigious football school: Kokoku High School in Osaka Prefecture.
At that time, he always had two wishes, one was to lead his alma mater to dominate Osaka, breaking the spell of being a strong team, but he could not enter the national championship of players' rights; the other was to compete in the school playground with Takumi Minano, who was in the same grade.
But these are difficult to achieve.
As a talented soccer teenager, Takumi Minamino in high school has been selected for Sakura Osaka's professional team, and he rarely appears on the court of Kokoku High School, let alone play high school games on behalf of the school football department.
"I've always felt that The Minamino player (Takumi Minamino) is so strong and powerful. At that time, I was troubled by my own affairs, lamented that he was so strong, and was inspired by him. Furuhashi still clearly remembers sitting on the edge of the playground and enviing Takumi Minano every day.
And all his dreams are powerless to achieve.
Not every soccer player is a big wing, and he has never been able to stand on the stage of the national competition throughout his high school career. It was not until 2019, 6 years after his graduation, that the descendants of Xingguo University realized the long-cherished wish of many years of seniors.
Such a Furuhashi Kenwu will certainly not attract the attention of professional clubs. In 2013, Takumi Minamino graduated from high school and was promoted to the Osaka Sakura first team, setting a new record for the youngest goal scorer in the J-League. Furuhashi Could only take the exam and walked into the gates of Chuo University.
The fates of the two men briefly intersected, and they soon went to different places.
"I have to keep going"】
For Japanese soccer teenagers, they have not yet entered the professional football system after graduating from high school, which basically indicates that the dream of professional football is over.
Even so, many boys are reluctant to give up their dreams of becoming professional players and will continue to work the university field. They want to be the next Nagatomo, even though the collegiate league has never produced a few internationals like Nagatomo.
Furuhashi Ishiko is one of those who is reluctant to give up. "Believe in what you're going through and do your best. In order to grow, you must make an effort, as long as you do not give up, the dream may come true. Even if it doesn't work out, the effort will make other things better. ”
With this belief, Furuhashi continued to run on the university court.
Entering the senior year, because of his experience in being selected for the national university selection team, he was quite confident and began to go to various J1 clubs to participate in trial training, but he did not receive a contract for half a year.
"After the trial, I would be so tired that I would vomit in the hotel toilet, and then I would consider whether I should give up football."
This is the situation that most Japanese football teenagers face when they are about to graduate from college, and many people will choose to become an ordinary office worker after graduation at this time, but Furuhashi Hengwu does not.
He took a back seat and chose to start his efforts in the J2 League.
In the winter of his senior year, he joined J2 League club FC Gifu. "You can only harden your scalp, since you have fallen to the bottom, you can only face the difficulties, in order to survive, you must fight!"
Giving up the window for graduates to find jobs in the same period to come to the J2 League field means that he has no space and opportunity to fail again. The broken boat was his situation at that time.
It was in this situation that he scored 7 goals in his first season and 11 goals in the second season, which brought him the attention of The Victory Ship of Kobe.
In the summer of 2018, he finally succeeded in standing on the stage called Dream for the first time.
For The Kobe Victory Ship, the arrival of a young striker from the J2 League is not big news at all. The real big news is that in the same transfer window, Iniesta joined the Kobe Victory Ship.
Not long after the Spanish superstar, who had already won everything, walked into the dressing room, Furuhashi immediately noticed the difference in him: "Whether it is for people in the world, or as a player, he is the top of the top. ”
"It's an encounter of fate."
"Iniesta told me to go to Europe"]
Just as he was inspired by Takumi Minano as a child, Furuhashi uses Iniesta as his new source of energy. In order to be able to communicate fluently with his idols, he took the initiative to find a Spanish teaching institution and went to make up classes crazy after training competitions every day. "If you can't communicate on the pitch, you can't."
Over the past two years, Furuhashi's Spanish level has become higher and higher. With that, his tacit understanding with Iniesta got better and better. To become the first striker in the history of the Kobe Victory Team to score more than 10 goals for three consecutive years, Furuhashi's back is inseparable from Iniesta's assist.
Off the pitch, as the communication between the two became smoother, Iniesta began to tell him about his experience of playing in the Europa League and the World Cup, encouraging him to go abroad and land in the Europa League.
So, when asked by the media if he had any hope of participating in the World Cup, he said: "(The World Cup is) a bigger goal than the dream, now want to maximize the opportunities, the shortcut to achieve the goal is to concentrate on doing the present thing." ”
Since he was a child, he has lagged behind teenage geniuses such as Takumi Minamino, and if he wants to complete this goal, staying in the ocean is the only shortcut. 'I love European football very much and the ultimate goal is to play in Europe, where I can further improve the attacking, coordination, goals and other qualities that I need as a striker, and I will be different in terms of tactics and self-awareness.
The arrival of the new crown epidemic has delayed his time to stay abroad, but it is precisely during this time that God has invisibly paved the way for him.
In January 2018, the Yokohama Mariners hired Australian Poster Kogru as the new manager, and the coach, who holds the Asian Cup and The Australian Premier League title, stayed here for three years before switching to the Celtics this summer. At that time, some media said that he was likely to reuse some players from Asia.
As it was, Postkoglu soon threw an olive branch at Furuhashi Hengwu. Ecstatic, the latter immediately ran to ask Iniesta for his opinion.
"What else do you want?" Go to Europe! ”
["Coach says he wants to sign more Japanese players"]
For some older Celtic fans, Japanese players are no strangers.
Fifteen years ago, on November 21, it was Shunsuke Nakamura, who was playing for the Celtics at the time, who beat Manchester United with a nearly perfect free kick, and won the team a valuable place in the Champions League group stage. After that, Furuhashi Hadeo actually had a Japanese predecessor, Akira Mizuno, who did not leave a deep enough impression.
But for fans who have only fallen in love with the Celtics in recent years, Furuhashi is nothing more than a closeee who is about to take over the legendary captain Scott Brown's No. 8 jersey. Too many people are staring at his performance, ready to express their opinions, criticisms or ridicule, but Furuhashi Hashimoto only used one game to make these lines useless.
In his home debut in the Soviet Premier League, Furuhashi Performed a hat-trick.
Prior to this match, the Celtics had just been eliminated from the Champions League qualifying round by Central Judland; after this game, the Celtics won four consecutive games in all competitions, and Furuhashi Hengo scored two more goals.
Today's obvious contrast has made Celtic fans immediately become supporters of Japanese strikers. And the wonderful performance of the opening allowed Furuhashi Tomohide to continue his good state.
In the Europa League group stage against Ferencvaros, Furuhashi's goal helped the team win 2-0, in the words of manager Post Kogru: "I think it was a very good goal, we took the ball out of the small area, which is what we like to do. Then Jota's personal excellent ball possession ability, you will see Furuhashi catch the ball at full speed and burst with the ball. ”
Later, the goal was voted the best goal in the europa League group stage.
If you think that Furuhashi Ishiko is just a striker who is good at seizing opportunities, you are very wrong.
"Of course, I'm a striker. Although my job is to score goals, the most important thing in the team is defense, so I think if I start grabbing the ball in front of the field, I can help the defenders to reduce the pressure, which is my specialty and the philosophy of the team. If we don't do that, we can't guarantee 100% participation in the next games, and I hope to be able to help the team score while doing that. ”
Under Iniesta's point, Furuhashi's ability to read the game was already outstanding several years ago. This, combined with his speed advantage and ability to run, made him a fairly sharp shooter, especially in the brightly paced and open-ended Soviet Premier League.
In the 4th round, defending champion Glasgow Rangers defeated the Celtics 1-0 in the "old derby". Furuhashi did not score, but became the focus of traffic.
A few days before the match, the Glasgow Rangers fan group quickly fermented on the SNS on the bus singing racist songs mocking Furuhashi Henhow, including stereotypes of Asians eating dog meat and insults to the shape of the eyes.
Although Glasgow Rovers Club quickly found the person involved and the fan organization, and issued a penalty for the person involved to be banned from participating in all team matches indefinitely, and the fan organization was banned from obtaining tickets for future matches, the incident still had a big impact on Furuhashi, who wrote "I will never go alone" on social media and attached the label of "say no to racial discrimination".
The reason why Furuhashi Isthashi was targeted by sworn enemy fans was actually because of his excellent performance and the promotion he brought to the Celtics, which really threatened the defending situation of the Glasgow Rangers.
It's just halfway through the season and anything is possible.
"First of all, on the team side, I want to help the team win the league championship, and personally I want to score more than 20 goals to get the top scorer. I've missed a lot of opportunities in my life, so I now want to keep saving the team with goals, while also grabbing more balls to make it easier for my teammates at the rear. “
During an interview with Celtic state television, when asked about his goals for the season, Furuhashi said a lot. The arrival of the League Cup title allowed him to face the second half of the season with a more relaxed mentality. If he could really win the league championship from the hands of Glasgow Rangers, Furuhashi Hengwu at that time would probably be excited to tears again.
Kobe Victory Ship fans know that Furuhashi Ishiko is a crying ghost. At the grand meeting held by the team for him this summer, he saw the fans and teammates coming to see him off, listened to Iniesta's message to him, and said that he did not want to cry, Furuhashi Hengwu still did not hold back.
"Although some people want me to be stronger, how can I not cry in this happy scene?" Facing the fans and teammates present, Furuhashi, who was crying and laughing, finally said: "I will try to be the best I can at Celtic and become a person who is respected by everyone." “
Being respected by everyone is not an easy task for Asians who play in Europe. You have to come up with the same or better performance as the European South American players, in order to use the strength to break all doubts.
Did Furuhashi Hengwu do it?
- Manager Post kogru recently said publicly: "Furuhashi Istingo is really good, I want to sign more Japanese players for the club." ”
Defender Greg Taylor was quick to welcome in the interview: "I fully understand that the team wants to bring in more Japanese players. Afraid of losing your position? The performance of Furuhashi is obvious to everyone, as long as it can improve the strength of the team, then what reason is there to refuse! ”
I believe that at least Furuhashi Has gained full respect from the Celtics and their fans.
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