Kaoru Mikasa is not the only one who can break through with the ball on the left side of the Japanese team!

In the Celtic team, which is now leading the Soviet Premier League, there are five Japanese players in the first team, the most popular of which must be the goal-scoring Hengwu Furuhashi and the all-round standard-bearer Ren Yang. However, among these five, only Maeda participated in the World Cup.

This season, Maeda has scored 9 goals and 6 assists in 25 Premier League games, plus the League Cup, FA Cup and Champions League, scoring 9 goals and 6 assists. And compared to Furuhashi at the top of the offensive line, Maeda was moved by coach Postcoglu in any position on the offensive line because of his speed, and the recent main position is the same left winger as Kaoru Mikasa.

Etsuko Motokawa, a veteran Japanese journalist, recently visited these Japanese players in Scotland, and in the interview, she also revealed Maeda's journey of staying abroad for more than a year, and Maeda also told the secret of his promotion after coming to Scotland.

"Before the World Cup, Harry Cowell became my coach and he would accompany me to meetings and training after every game and he would always say to me 'why are you trying to do something?' 'You run fast, why don't you act in some cases?' It changed my mind a lot. ”

"Meetings with Harry are usually analysed while watching the video, so the more I played in a game, the longer the meeting became. His analysis is not only to break through with the ball, but also how to slip behind the opponent's running route. Although my English skills are limited, I am really grateful to him for his ability to match my language level and explain it in an easy-to-understand manner. After meeting Harry, I deeply realized that I could make such a big difference by watching the video. Other football matches are also watched more than before, especially Kaoru (Mikasa) and Vinicius of Real Madrid, who attack from the left side, and it is interesting to watch them. ”

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As the only Celtic international to go to the World Cup, Morihoichi also has a soft spot for Maeda: "He has the potential of a striker, he can also appear on the wing according to the situation, and he can also plug in the forward line to play the role of attacking the second echelon, which is a very good thing, a player who can change the system." ”

Maeda Daran always gives people the energy to hang or not be angry with anything, and even a little confused. Remember that in September last year, before the warm-up of the Japanese team in Düsseldorf in Germany and the United States, Makoto Hasebe, a veteran captain who played for Eintracht Frankfurt, joined the team as an interim coach and participated in the pre-match meeting. The Makoto team entered the conference room and sat in the last row, and then the players who entered the conference room took the initiative to step forward to shake hands and say hello after seeing the Makoto team, only Maeda did not look at the back row after entering the field, and sat directly next to Furuhashi Hengwu in the second row, and drank water. Furuhashi even scratched his head a little awkwardly, until Maeda took the initiative to get up to say hello, Maeda seemed to notice the big man, embarrassed to bump fists with Makoto's team, including Morihoichi, who entered the conference room behind Maeda, laughed at this time.

In fact, I wrote before Japan played in the 2019 Copa America that Maeda is a player who is very eager for football and desperate to prove himself. After the Copa America roster was announced, 22-year-old Maeda said bluntly that he did not want to give up the No. 9 shirt to veteran Shinji Okazaki.

The root of Maeda's personality is that he was expelled from the soccer club when he was attending Yamanashi Gakuin High School because he was a troubled teenager. After being expelled, Maeda did not even have a school dormitory to live in, and had to rent a house off-campus. During this period, his mother came to visit him once a week, bringing him food reserves for nearly a week each time, which made Maeda feel that he had no ball to play and the most sorry person was his mother. Every time her mother came to visit, Maeda would ride her mother to the nearest station on a bicycle, and it was this year's reflection that eventually the prodigal son turned around and rehabilitated, and Maeda returned to the football club and successfully embarked on a career path.

And Maeda got married and had children early, and he was also a player who was extremely family-oriented. He and his daughter agreed to do Anpanman's celebratory action after scoring a goal, which is already a scene in the Su Super League.

The roster for the March warm-up matches of the Moriho 1st and 2nd national teams is also about to be announced, and for Maeda Dairan, who already has World Cup experience, he also has a new goal, which is to compete with Kaoru Mikasa, the current top player in Japanese football. When the three-ball king exploded because of a centimeter save in the World Cup, how many people noticed that it was Maeda who was trying to save the ball in front of him?

"I want to play everywhere myself, of course the strikers are good, but if I have a choice on the wing, it would be better whether it was in the national team or at the club. The Japanese team is not only able to break through with the ball on the left flank, there are several options, and of course I also want to participate in the 2026 World Cup in North America. Constantly launching an offensive against the opponent in front of you, you can only desperately carry out the practice and competition in front of you. I think as long as we keep at it, we'll get closer and closer to the World Cup. ”

With 3 years to go before the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup, everyone knows that the Premier League is by no means a long-term option, and the media has previously revealed that Southampton in the Premier League is interested in Maeda. However, Maeda said that he has not thought about it so much: "First of all, to win the championship here, and secondly, it would be better for me to score goals and assists this season." I've scored double digits in the past but had very few assists, but now I'm playing on the left and hopefully the assists will increase. ”

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Although he was always ridiculed for looking anxious, looking at this picture taken by Etsuko Motokawa, is Maeda getting more and more stylish?