The Japanese men's football team will officially prepare for two World Preliminary Tournaments on January 17, with the goal of winning the two wars with China and Saudi Arabia to get a direct entry to the World Cup in Qatar; at the same time, the Japanese women's football team is also preparing to go to India to participate in the Women's Asian Cup, and the goal of the new coach Ikeda Tai is undoubtedly to win the championship for the third consecutive time. On January 13, the Japan Football Association announced two new personnel decisions to escort the men's and women's football teams.
In terms of men's football, Yasuharu Inomachi, chairman of the technical committee of the Japan Football Association, announced on the 13th that Daisuke Sugawara, who coached the J2 team Tochigi last season, will enter the coaching staff of the Japanese national team as a full-time coach in set-pieces.
Daisuke Sugawara, who graduated from the University of Tsukuba, is not a famous man, but he has a good set of technical analysis. Born in 1978, he worked as a coach of the team when he was a graduate student at the University of Tsukuba, and after graduation, he began working as a technical officer in the Japanese women's football team at the age of 25, and then left a footprint in the national team of all ages in Japan from 2005 to 2009, and also participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where his position was all technical analysis. For more than 10 years, Daisuke Sugawara has coached Chiba Ichihara, Mizumi Oita, and Tochigi. At the end of 2021, with the departure of Coaches Tasaka and Akira, Daisuke Sugawara also left Tochigi.
This time, Daisuke Sugawara returned to the Japanese national team, and although the position he won was a set-piece coach, the main task was still technical analysis, especially the study of the opponent's set-piece tactics, and the editing video was presented to the coach and players at the training and preparation meeting. And Sugahara is not only responsible for this national team match, he will be responsible for the analysis of the japanese national team in the full range of set-pieces.
Under Moriho, the Japanese team did not play well in this round of 12, with only 5 goals in 6 games, and none of them came from the combination of set-pieces, in the words of Yasuharu Motomachi, "Even the first point of the set-piece is difficult to grab." "And because players play more in Europe, the offensive routines are more thoroughly studied, and the team also urgently needs to use set-piece tactics to win goals. At the same time, the Japanese U24 Olympic team led by Mori Hoichi was also repeatedly broken or threatened by opponents' set-pieces at the Tokyo Olympic Games, especially in the bronze medal battle to lose to Mexico, and all three goals conceded were set-pieces.
However, in the just-concluded 100th Japan High School Football Player Rights Competition, champion Aomori Yamada scored a record through corners or set pieces in every match, and the proportion of corner kicks in the players' rights was high, as well as fancy cooperation including Takakawa Gakuen, which forced the Japanese Football Association to roll up. Yasuji Anti-Machi said at the online press conference that on the one hand, Australian, Mexican and other teams already have full-time analysis and coaches in set-pieces, on the other hand, the national team level must come up with better content than Aomori Yamada...
In terms of Japanese women's football, in fact, the team has the support of foreign players such as Sashi Kumagaya and Shina Iwabuchi, and the probability of 3 consecutive championships is not small, so it is not needed from the technical level, this is just a thorough examination for the new coach Ikeda Tai. However, because the Women's Asian Cup is held in India, and the current epidemic situation in India is not optimistic, the Japanese Football Association mainly pays more attention to women's football in terms of life.
According to the news from Japan on the 13th, the 59-year-old exclusive chef of the Japanese men's national football team, Xi Fangzhao, will be seconded to the women's football team for the first time to go to India. Since 2006, Xi Fangzhao has played in the Japanese men's football team for 4 World Cups and is well aware of the dietary needs of Japanese players abroad.
At the 2018 Asian Cup in Jordan, the Japanese women's football team was very uncomfortable with the local diet, and Hasegawa, who participated in that tournament, still has a lingering feeling, and this time with the addition of Sai Yoshinatsu, the Japanese team attacking main force said that he could play football with peace of mind.
It is reported that in addition to the Japanese Football Association shipping Japanese rice and some seasonings to India in advance, Xifangzhao will be solely responsible for the procurement of other ingredients.
The newly appointed Japanese women's committee chairman and the famous coach Sasaki Norio, who led the Japanese women's football team to the top of the world, made it clear that "in the current epidemic situation and the fatigue and pressure of the competition, diet is the most important psychological adjustment and an important part of winning the championship." ”