On March 31, 2022, Japan's Uniseses Badminton Club held an online press conference, Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Yudai Watanabe will become a professional player, and said that his goal for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games is a mixed doubles gold medal!
Watanabe, who attended the press conference, said: "I will do my best to contribute to BIPROGY with responsibility and awareness. ”
Watanabe will continue to work as an employee of BIPROGY (formerly Unisexes is now biprogy), and he will sign a new professional contract with the new company.
The Japan Unions Badminton Club has a long history and a wealth of talents, from Shintaro Ikeda / Reiko Shioda, to Kenichi Hayakawa / Daiyu Endo, Reiwa Takahashi / Misaki Matsuto, Hope Okuhara, Kurihara Motono, and Watanabe Yudai / Higashino Ariaki, all of whom are members of the club.
At present, among the players of the Japanese national team, Okuhara Hope and Momota Kendou are playing as professional players! Okuhara hopes to sign with Sun Holdings, and Momota Kendo signs with NTT East. Previously, Okuhara hoped to renew his contract with Japan Sun Holdings until 2024.
Speaking of which, it is inevitable to explain to you the training system of Japanese badminton, which is different from the training method of the mainland from the sports school to the provincial team to the national team, and Japan adopts the training method of the high school badminton department, the university badminton department and the company club.
In Japanese schools, a badminton department is set up to train badminton students, and the best of them will enter the company club after graduation. The company club is a very important part of the training of badminton players, and it can be said that most of the peak period of an athlete is trained in the company. The stronger badminton clubs in Japan include UNISYS, Zaichunkan, Hokdo Bank, NTT East, and TONAMI Transportation.
So what is the role of the national team? The national team is a training team, for example, a week or so before the game, the players will be called in a fixed location for training. Throughout the training process, it is guided and supervised by the national team coach (Park Joo Bong, etc.) and the company coach.
Will badminton players work when they enter the company? The answer is yes. They all have jobs in the company, such as Tian Er Kenichi is an electrician, in addition to practicing badminton, but also to install communication cables, becoming a professional player means not to work, full-time badminton.
A photograph of Matsutomo Misaki at work
South Korean coach Park Joo Bong came to the Japanese badminton team after the 2004 Athens Olympics, and now the position of the Japanese team players has changed, and after continuous good results in international competitions, the players have begun to have their own ideas and ideas, such as Okuhara Hope and Nishimoto Kenta who quit their clubs to become professional players, and Momota Kendou has also changed from a regular employee of the NTT East Japan Club to a contract worker. It is also said that the influence of Park Ju-bong, who has made great contributions to Japanese badminton, has declined, and the Japanese badminton world has ushered in a new turning point.
After becoming a professional player, Watanabe Candimothy can expand the scope of activities without changing the company, such as obtaining individual sponsors, participating in overseas professional leagues and hosting tournaments. He revealed that his opportunity to become a professional player was to win a medal at the Tokyo Olympics, "I want to get motivation in badminton. I want to be able to expand the options to teenagers who want to be the best they can be. ”
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, he will continue to play an active role in the mixed competition with his partner Yusa Higashino. "Our goal is to win gold medals, not medals," he stressed. Although he also competed in the men's doubles at the Tokyo Olympics, his partner Daiyu Endo has retired and the direction of the men's doubles has not yet been determined. "If it's possible in the future, if I'm qualified to challenge, I want to challenge, but I want to consult with all kinds of people and then decide what to do in the future," he said. ”
Watanabe Yudai / Higashino Yusha, who has just won the mixed doubles title at the All England Championships, has surpassed Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping to the third place, Watanabe Yongda announced that he has become a professional player and wants to win the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. There are many strong enemies that the mixed doubles will face in the future, I don't know if they are ready?
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