After several months, a major event of Japanese football, this year's 100th high school football conference has successfully come to an end, and finally Aomori Yamada, who has been the runner-up in previous years, successfully defeated the opponent in the match against Kuroma Otsu and lifted the final championship trophy!
If high school students can play soccer and become professional players, you would say I'm being funny, but it does happen in Japan. Every year, the Japanese High School Football Conference is a major event in Japanese football, this event has come to the 100th year this year, and there are also a lot of star players, including shinji Ono, Ogasawara Shoo and other older generation of national players, as well as Meso players such as Makoto Hasebe and Uchida Tokutomi, and of course, there are superstars such as Yuto Nagatomo and Keisuke Honda.
Two internationals from Japanese high schools in the 18th World Cup, Yuto Nagatomo on the left and Yuya Ōbazu on the right
A total of 48 teams will decide from the local prefectural and municipal duels and finally the final 48 teams representing each region will gather in Tokyo for the final championship battle. It is conceivable that the gold content of this championship, for example, after the champion in 2006 fell to the unknown Iwate Prefecture Morioka Commercial High School, the local county magistrate immediately awarded all members the title of honorary prefectural resident, which can be said to be very rare, to know that this title was only awarded to 7 people in history!
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In this year's final, after layers of selection, Aomori Yamada and the super dark horse Otsu, who finally reached the final for four consecutive years, successfully entered the final. Among them, Aomori Yamada entered the final is not unexpected, in addition to reaching the final for four consecutive years, they have also won three championships (16, 18, 21) in the last six years, which can be said to be the strongest team at present. Relatively speaking, the finalists of opponent Otsu were even more surprising, not only did they win the division of last year's champion Yamanashi Gakuin, but also defeated the strong team Maebashi Yuei and defeated another dark horse, Kanto Daiichi High School, Shizuoka Gakuin.
Attached are the specific results of the matchup at this tournament
In the end, Aomori Yamada did not let the opponent's dark horse miracle continue to be staged, and the goals in the 37th, 41st, 55th and 78th minutes made the opponent fruitless, once again lifting the trophy that symbolized the highest honor of the three years of high school, and also drew a perfect end to this year's high school football conference, they also entered the semi-finals 6 times in 7 years and won the championship three times. Under the epidemic prevention regulations, 42,747 spectators still gathered to witness this annual football event.