Recently, The iconic figure of Japanese football, Chira Miura, has renewed his contract, and he seems to be reluctant to stop when he turns 54 in February this year. The Japanese football legend's persistence in his dreams and beliefs is touching and inspires many young people to continue to forge ahead on the road of football. On the other hand, miura Chiryo's delay in retreating has other reasons, thanks to some unspoken rules of Japanese society, Miura Chiryo seems to be involuntary.
There are several theories about Miura's annual salary in Yokohama, whether it is a friendship price of 10 million yen (620,000 yuan) or 40 million yen (2.5 million yuan) paid by sponsors, which is obviously not a normal market behavior. You know, Miura only played more than 160 minutes in the 18th and 19th seasons, which is really expensive. But in fact, as long as Miura Chiryo is still in Japanese football, his "price" can only be so high, this phenomenon is commonplace in Japanese society, commonly known as the "year of merit sequence".
Through the J-League salary data, it is not difficult to find some of these problems, the first of which is the serious situation of "seniority ranking". Taking the 2020 season as an example, there are 3 veterans over the age of 35 among the top 20 high-paying players, which cannot be denied their "jianghu status" and historical contribution, but can their role on the court now match such treatment? On the other hand, the survival situation of the local "young and strong" and "popular young students" is not optimistic, or in this list, there are only 3 Japanese players under the age of 30. In other words, 17 of the top 20 players in the J-League who get paid well are over 30. In fact, such a thing does not appear today, 2 years ago, Naoto Ueda, who was selected for the Japanese national team's 23-man roster for the World Cup in Russia, chose to play abroad after the J League salary ranking was 150 that year. Jiu Jianying, known as the "live-action version" of the big empty wing, has long been famous, but before joining Real Madrid, he could only get a salary of about 400 in the J League.
At the East Asian Cup at the beginning of last year, all 22 members of the Japanese team came from the J-League, of which Oshima, the highest paid, had an annual salary of only 90 million yen (about 5.7 million yuan), while the lowest-paid Ueda Keiji had an annual salary of only 4.8 million yen (about 300,000 yuan). With the exception of Junji Tanaka, who was still in college and did not enter professional football at the time, the average annual salary of the remaining 21 players was only 22 million yen (about 1.37 million yuan), and they were almost the best local players in the J-League.
In fact, Miura Chiryo was also a "victim" of the Nian Gong sequence. In 1998, the wealthy Japanese television station decided not to sponsor miura Chira's Yomiuri team, and the team was renamed Kawasaki Berdy, they could not afford Miura Chira's league salary, and other teams were reluctant to take over the 31-year-old star who seemed to have a significant decline in competitive standards, so Miura Had to leave Croatia. Of course, with miura's persistence, he has long since transcended the shackles of competitive rules and become a unique symbol in Japanese football, and many merchants have regarded him as the best spokesperson. Yokohama FC is also good at doing similar "business", the team once had Forty years old Nakamura Shunsuke and Miura Chiryo competed in the same game, the team's attention increased rapidly, and even some people think that more than half of the yokohama team's sponsors are aimed at "living fossils".
In fact, such an unreasonable sequence of years has another contribution, the low wages of the J League force those capable, promising, and aggressive young players to go abroad early and go to the European League, while getting a high salary for individuals, but also enriching the accumulation of Japanese football. This season, the Belgian league has poured in more than 10 Japanese players, and many people may not look up to this European second- and third-rate league, but for them, it is a shortcut to their dreams, after all, the average salary of the J-League in 2020 is only 260,000 euros, and there are more opportunities to be seen by the scouts of the mainstream leagues.
Every step of Japanese football is a beat faster than ours, and with more than 20 years of accumulation, there is a world of difference. The J-League model seems to have a steady stream of vitality, and the Chinese Super League, which has also experienced the reinforcements of big names, seems to have come to a fork in the road where choices must be made. Once, "A A looks at the international footballer, A B looks at foreign aid", which seems to be no different from the "Literary Union"; now, although there is a salary restriction order, it is expected to be firmly occupied by foreign aid for more than ten years in a key position, and suddenly become the world of domestic players, which is really some of the seedlings.
And we are looking forward to a few good seedlings, even if a few games or even a few good balls are regarded as treasures, "fame and fortune" are coming, and who will give up everything at their fingertips and choose a more demanding environment to challenge and improve themselves? When a glimmer of confidence has just been ignited through the club competition, when the big players who decorated the façade no longer exist, when the naked status quo of Chinese football appears in front of the public without a trace of embellishment, whether we still have the determination and courage to persevere, no one knows the answer. （zz）