In a World Preliminary Round of 12 that ended earlier last night, the Japanese team used Takuma Asano's hanging shot to cause Australian player Biji to win the second victory of the round of twelve 2-1 in the 86th minute, and ended Australia's three-game winning streak.
This time back to Saitama 2002 Stadium, which is one of the venues of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, while the Japanese team has encountered an unprecedented crisis on the road to the 2022 World Cup, and the outside world agrees that if Moriho cannot defeat the Kangaroo Army in this battle, not only will he hand over the coaching position, but even the door for Japan to attack the World Cup will be closed. It was in this context that Mori hoshi had tears in his eyes during the pre-match national anthem, and although he repeatedly said after the game that it was tears of excitement and pride, it seemed that this was not the case...
It was thanks to Takuma Asano, the Japanese striker who first played for Bundesliga promotion Ma Bochum, who was famous for joining Arsenal, but his experience backfired, and he could not be like his compatriot Kenyo Fuan, who had just joined the club and was carried to the sky and eventually went to the Bundesliga. However, in the national team, he has made contributions to the team again and again, thinking that the ninth round of the 17-year World Preliminary Tournament is also facing Australia, and it is Takuma Asano who broke the deadlock for Japan in the 41st minute, and finally helped the team to qualify for the World Cup in Russia in the early round of the 2-0 game.
If the last goal was a good start, then this goal was like sending charcoal in the snow, saving Mori Hoichi and bringing the Japanese team back to life...
Japanese coach Morihoichi, who was released after the game, shouted to the fans: "The final goal was scored by everyone's cheers, and there will be a very difficult game after that, please fight together and go to the World Cup together!" ”
"Let's go to the World Cup together!"
Such catharsis may be difficult for others to understand, but for Mori, he naturally does not want to be the witness of Japan missing the World Cup finals again, after all, this is not the first time he has missed the World Cup.
In the Japanese football world, there is a "Doha tragedy" that no one wants to mention, the Asian qualifiers of the 1994 World Cup in the United States, the final stage of the round of the round of 6, the last round of the group first place Japan in the last round of the group was chased by Iraq 2-2 in the last moment, and finally because of the goal difference disadvantage, Saudi Arabia and South Korea won the first and second places to enter the World Cup finals, and finally fell to the third place to miss the World Cup. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that the Japanese team has seen so many hopes of qualifying for the World Cup...
Yes, Japan had never made it to the World Cup before, and Mori Hoshi was the starting midfielder at the time, and in front of him were Chira Miura and Masashi Nakayama, who are known as the living fossils of Japanese football, and they still play in the J-League. Interestingly, Kenta Hasegawa, another striker in the 4-3-3 formation at the time, was rumored a few days ago that he would take over as Morihoichi as the new manager of the Japanese team.
Although Kenta Hasegawa subsequently denied the news, the call for Morio to get off the class was very loud, even if today's 2-1 defeat of Australia to get 3 points fans are not satisfied, after the game on the social platform about Moriho's class topic "Moriho dismissal" is still at the top. It's easy to explain, fans think that this is Moriho's life, he simply does not have that ability. Apparently, the whole country of Japan does not believe in tears.
But fate sometimes must have it, and fate must not demand it at any time. As a TV Tokyo commentator, Mitsuhiko Kubota once said that after being forced to draw by Iraq in the final round of the 94 World Cup qualifiers and missing the first time in history to enter the World Cup finals, he and the commentators were silent for nearly half a minute, and then he squeezed a sentence out of his mouth:
"This is fate"