In the third round of the J1 League two days ago, Yokohama FC lost 0-2 to Urawa Red Diamonds, and Yokohama veteran Miura Chira came off the bench in injury time to refresh his record for the oldest appearance in the J League at the age of 54 years and 12 days, which should have been a singable achievement, but most Japanese fans did not buy it.
Miura Chira was already 0-2 behind when he was replaced, and there was very little time left, which was almost garbage time. The game was over before he even touched the ball after he played, basically just to brush the record. When the big list for this round was announced, when people saw that Miura's name, which had not appeared in the list in the previous two rounds, was in the team's substitute list, they probably had already guessed that it was the ending.
Some netizens said: "Playing a game in order to break the record, in the end I have seen that I can't keep up with the rhythm of the game, I want to know if the team has a sense of crisis, so it will be relegated." ”
'I'm sorry to say to Mr. Miura, but I think it's far better for a veteran to break a record than for a young player to break a record.'
"About five years ago, foreign media called Miura a legend when they reported on him, and now it may be a joke."
"I thought the goal of the J-League was to build a league that was competitive all over the world, but could this record help the league?"
Everyone knows that Miura Chiryo was able to play not for competitive reasons, but to use him as a billboard or a gimmick to attract fans. Miura himself is a minority shareholder of the team, in this team that is only relegated, he can bring the biggest topic to the team, and the topic of generating traffic is also a help for the team, and it can also attract more sponsors.
Of course, yokohama FC is not a team that aims at the record at all, they have twice let the nearly 43-year-old veteran Shunsuke Nakamura start at the main back in the three games of the new season, and the old Nakamura, who is not good at defense, is completely inadequate, and both games have been defeated. There are also a number of veterans in the team, such as Chimma Watanabe, Sho Ito, Yahiko Ito and even legendary goalkeeper Nan Yuta, who, like Miura Chira, are far more famous than they are now capable of, and Yokohama FC is not unexpectedly the oldest team in the new J League with an average age of 29.1 years. Yokohama FC is considered a big hit for relegation this season, but for the sake of heat and topic, the team may not mind the poor record.