On March 31, Beijing time, after the Japanese team drew with Vietnam, a "racial discrimination" storm broke out. The AFC used monkeys to describe Japan's captain defender Maya Yoshida and his fans, who were strongly criticized by the Japanese media Japan Football Digest yesterday.
Today, the AFC withdrew the phrase. However, Ma Yoshida and the fans of the Japanese team did not intend to let the AFC go.
The Japanese Football Digest is a local newspaper in Japan, and the Korean media reprinted the news report and interpreted the ins and outs of the matter.
In this game, Ma Yoshida is also the protagonist of the game. His loss led to a goal from a Vietnamese player, and Japan was left behind at the start. In the second half, it was also his goal that allowed Japan to tie the score and avoid a home loss.
In addition, he has repeatedly missed good opportunities.
In the 32nd minute of the second half of the world preliminary match between Japan and Vietnam, Yoshida Ma also got an opportunity to open the goal in front of the goal, and vietnamese goalkeeper Tan Yuan Meng had fallen to the ground and could score as long as he shot at the target. However, the ghost made Yoshida Ma also kick the ball off, and the trajectory of the ball rolling was just close to the column and his teammates could not reach it.
The AFC wrote on social media at the beginning of its S that Maya Yoshida and his fans were disappointed, and then used a monkey to cover their faces. But unexpectedly, they were quickly bombarded by the Japanese media and fans.
Today, the words of this comment have been deleted by them.
Japanese media questioned why the AFC wanted to publish a picture of Ma Yoshida who also missed the opportunity, and the AFC was suspected of racial discrimination.
Due to the large number of Asian races, the AFC has been cautious before. If they are really labeled as racist, they can be very uncomfortable.
Japanese fans were also quite excited, and many people expressed dissatisfaction with the AFC. Because the AFC's monkey covered his face, he also described a group of Yoshida Maya fans.
Ma Yoshida is also the captain of the Japanese team and one of the most successful players in Japan. This season, he played for Sampdoria, making 22 appearances. As a defender, he scored 2 goals and assisted 3 times, receiving only 1 yellow card. Previously, he had been playing for Southampton in the Premier League for a long time.
This is not the first time that Maya Yoshida has been described as a monkey, as fans insulted him and compared him to a monkey after last year's World Cup Japan away match against Saudi Arabia.
At that time, Yoshida Maya was also being interviewed, and because of the loss to the home team Saudi Arabia, the whole team was in a bad mood, and he rushed to the fans in anger.
After the game, the Saudi Football Association had to apologize to the Japanese team. In the second meeting between the two teams, the Japanese team defeated the opponent and got the key points of qualifying.
In the semi-finals of the 2011 Asian Cup between Japan and Qatar, Ma Yoshida was also thrown by the hosts after being sent off, including bananas.
The Japanese team has performed well in the World Cup and they have already qualified for the World Cup. There are not many places to qualify in Asia, and there are only two teams in Asia that are expected to qualify in the group at the World Cup. In this year's World Preliminary Round, the AFC may need these two teams to compete for honors.
The AFC has become accustomed to doing multi-faceted people with different social media in different regions, but their main website and social media have always been operated by West Asian or Malaysian (headquarters location). To date, the only official languages available are English and Arabic.
PS: Hubei old fans are not easy to write, if it is convenient, please pay attention to Hubei old fans and praise the works of Hubei old fans.