Is Japan football really coming to an end? Even without overage players, including many of the main Olympian-age players, Japan was still able to beat the South American champions in the first round of the Paris Olympics to beat Paraguay 5-0. The explosive development of Japan's soccer talent is enviable. However, just a few months ago, there were people who said that the development of Japanese and Korean football has come to an end.
This person is none other than the famous Dong Lu is name.
In April this year, the U14 countries went to Japan to train and won consecutive warm-up matches, scoring 47 goals in four games to maintain a total victory. Dong Lu was very excited to share his personal experience and insights on this good news with the fans, believing that Japan football has come to an end, including Korea football. From 08-09, Chinese football will take off, and spring is coming.
Let's not talk about whether Dong Lu's conclusion is correct, it is completely untenable for him to rush to such a strange conclusion based on only a few warm-up games.
However, Japan football not only did not follow Dong Lu's steps, but instead shined in this Olympic Games. In the absence of many main players, they actually beat Paraguay by 5 goals. Although Paraguay suffered a bit of a loss by playing 1 less, 11 to 10 can win by 5 goals, even if both sides are 11 against 11, there is a high probability of winning 3-0.
Look at the circumstances under which Japan won the Olympic Games, and you can see the strength of Japan football. They are the only team at this Olympics that does not have overage players. On the contrary, the Paraguay team has overage players.
There are no overage players, and there are also a number of European players of the appropriate age of Japan's Olympic Games who have not signed up, including Southampton's Matsuki Kuyo and Parma's Suzuki Saiyan, as well as the team's biggest star - Kubo Kenei, who is worth up to 50 million euros. What's more, the team's main defender Handa Lu also withdrew due to injury before the start of the game.
In other words, after deducting 3 overage players and 4 age-appropriate main players, Japan's Olympic Games, which beat Paraguay, can barely be called a semi-main team at best. Even so, they were still able to score 5 goals for the South American champions.
In the previous warm-up match, Japan played a 1-1 draw with France. This series of achievements and player appointments shows that the development of Japan football has not only not ended, but is getting better and better.
Seeing this, I don't know if Mr. Dong Lu has a trace of embarrassment.
Rushing to the conclusion that Japan football has come to an end is not only arbitrary but also very misleading to many people. Blindly exaggerating oneself will not help oneself to improve, and it may lead oneself into the misconception of complacency. Deliberately belittling the opponent not only did not grow his ambition, but also made himself lose the direction and motivation to move forward. This kind of fallacy to confuse the public is really endless!
If they can't play in international competitions or the results of major competitions are not good, some people have to use the results of warm-up matches to show their merits, completely forgetting that the nature of warm-up matches is completely incomparable with official international competitions. The former is used by people to train the lineup and train the players, it doesn't matter if they win or lose, and the latter is the time to really fight for results.
It is really ridiculous and generous to rush to the conclusion that people are at the end of the game from just a few warm-up games and teaching matches. Not only does he not seem to understand the ball, but he is also arrogant. Let's see how the Japan Olympic coach talked about this 5-goal victory, high and low.