Japan had never qualified for the World Cup before 1998 and didn’t even have a professional football league until 1993, yet they beat two former world champions at the 2022 World Cup, just thrashed Germany 4-1, and are now Asia’s highest ranked national team.
It is a remarkable rise, instigated by Japan’s 100 Year Vision, to have 100 professional clubs and win the FIFA World Cup by 2092.
In this documentary, HITC Sevens takes a look at the unstoppable rise of Japanese football over the past 30 years, the growth of the J.League, and how Japan aims to become a football superpower before the century is done.
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Blue lock Went over this did it not?
And look at India.. no worldcup in its history having some of Asia's oldest football clubs
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Hasebe, Kagawa, Endo, Doan, Kamada, Ito… there is rarely a Japanese player who hasn't left a big mark in the Bundesliga. I actually hope my club starts to poach the J-League. 😅
That easy question.. they good cause they have that bluelock project.. didnt you see it ?
Japan hasTom Byer (aka Tom-san) if you've heard about him. He's an American former player who turned coach and started a youth development program that got a lot of kids technically comfortable on the ball. While the US continues to ignore him as the US keeps wallowing in mediocrity.
It's that Blue Lock program that's bringing out the best footballers
"How did Japan become so good in…?" Always has the same answer – they decided.
Project blue lock Ifykyk
Great insite and analysis
No other country has an organisation like blue lock for player to compete in
blue lock is why. obviously
Japan just got an American Dual nat Goalkeeper who would have been us American’s starter one day
Operation blue lock
They all read blue lock
Wait Blue lock worked😂
Very informative video! Go Japan!! Japan should’ve beaten Croatia to make it to the quarterfinals in 2022 World Cup. It was disappointing but a great lesson learned moving forward. Go Japan!!
the blue lock effect is literally happening as we speak
FIFA rankings are a joke. They beat Germany twice, Spain & USA yet they all rank way ahead of Japan. 🤡🤷♂️
Saudi Arabia thinks that signing big name players entering their final years of their careers for ridiculous money is how they will grow the league but China will be the first to tell you that that has not worked. Unless Saudi Arabia allocates their resources to youth program development, they will continue to be the 5th best team in Asia behind Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Iran and amongst the low tier teams in the world. Meanwhile, Japan and South Korea continue to work on domestic development and send superstars to Europe who then bring back their European flair back to their national teams, enabling them to play very well.
It’s incredible how much can be achieved when the primary motivator of these institutions isn’t solely money 😂 Unlike liga MX 😔
I’m not surprised as an American who’s is also a baseball fan. They took to baseball like ducks to water in the 30’s. They have a wonderful and vibrant sports culture over there!
They implemented the blue lock program, I saw the documentary
Because there's Captain Tsubasa in Japan.🎉
Big up Captain Tsubasa
They watched Blue Lock
it was blue lock
they truly got god and anime by their side
Blue lock is real
Bluelock
But, who taught the Japanese to be so magnificent?
Narcissistic answer: the bombs.
True answer: Japanese ancestors.
Who demonized Japanese?
The Narcissists.
Who are the Narcissists?
Narcissists are the predators of Human Kind.
Nazis didn't land from Space!
Hitler inherited Crusader's mentality by Otto von Bismarck and Detriech Lothar von Trotha.
2nd Reich reduced African tribes population by 90%.
Hitler was inspired by his predecessors.
Hitler mentions in his book Mein Kampf his plan to enslave Humanity, which he inherited by 1st Reich: the BIG LIE.
BIG LIE is smear campaign against Human Kind, thus a series of Colossal Lies so savagely gargantuan, that no human would had have the impedance to examine their credibility.
Japanese culture is the epitome of Purity. There are Shinto religious rituals who date before the wheel invention (more than 7000 years ago).
Yet, History dictates its 1200 years old. Mind you that Western world was established 1200 years ago.
Japanese history is counterfeit.
Narcissists are projecting their human toxic mentality at Japanese.
Because Narcissists desire the extinction of Japan.
Most effective way to exterminate Japanese Nation is to obliterate the evaluation of Japanese history from Japanese side.
In reality, Japanese ancestors did their very best to defend, preserve and inherit Japanese culture to their offspring.
Western world is trying to exterminate Japan since 16th century.
Initially, Westerners are waging proxy Wars against their target.
Japan left West in the dust not once, but twice!
Germany waged Manchu-Japanese proxy War. Shockingly, Japan evolved victorious in 1895!
.Japan had also left West in the dust by the 1980s.
West attacked Japan again by enforcing Communistic tactics and as a result Japan Japanese history is counterfeit. Narcissists are waging smear campaigns against their targets.
As a side note:
Narcissists are employing same pattern against Russia.
Westerners have been waging Ukro Russian proxy war since 2014.
There's a pattern.
Proxy wars are the prelude of the Great Wars.
친선 시합의 왕😂
Yes, #bluelockisreal and you can score me on that
SHIMIZU S-PULSE MENTIONED🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A big part of me becoming a football fan was because of the Inazuma Eleven anime and DS games. Thank you Japan.
Blue lock
i can answer this without even watching the video. They all just watched blue lock
Thanks to Jinpachi Ego and the Blue Lock project!
Blue lock
Bluelock.
High school soccer is not mentioned in this video. The high school soccer championship is old; the first championship was held in 1917. Many of the current national team players have come from the country and have developed excellent talents.
In Japan, the process of becoming a professional soccer player is diverse and does not limit when a player's talent can flourish, as there are paths for players to become active in junior high and high school soccer clubs and then be scouted again by youth and club teams.
In addition, in high school soccer, a player cannot show his abilities to many people unless his team wins. Hence, competition among players and dedication to the team become essential. It seems to me that the way to maximize the team's potential is to create such an environment.
Thanks for the video. Have you also made one on why Chinese dream failed and instead they focused on conquering the south sea waters and boundaries?
The Zico story is unbelievably wholesome
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Day 13 – Alfie, please do a video on the pitiful situation the Bulgarian national football team is currently in. Here are a couple of points to give you an idea about what I'm talking about:
– Currently, the team is in a streak of 8 winless games, at the bottom of its qualification group for the 2024 Euro, with no chances of qualifying, after losing to opponents such as Montenegro and Lithuania.
– The team's last win was almost a year ago – on 16.11.2022 in a friendly against Cyprus. Our last win in an official match was more than a year ago – on 26.09.2022 against North Macedonia.
– The national football team of Bulgaria has been constantly performing bad for at least the last 20 years. The last big tournament we played was the 2004 Euro in Portugal, where we were humiliated in the group stage.
– Many supporters blame the current bosses of the Bulgarian Football Union for this downfall. The most notable of them are Borislav Mihaylov, Emil Kostadinov and Yordan Lechkov – 3 players who were part of the great 1994 WC team which reached the semi-finals of the tournament. Sadly, those people's success as players has been overshadowed by their lack of capability or willingness to resolve many of the problems in our football – the out-of-date training systems, the poor football infrastructure etc. What's worse is that they refuse to resign a failure after another and they have changed the rules of the union in a way that makes them irremovable for more than 18 years.
– Recently a couple of players from the next generation – Dimitar Berbatov, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov started a campaign, trying to overthrow the aforementioned but as I said the rules are in the bosses' favour.
– Meanwhile fans are getting really angry with the situation and are starting to take measures. During the last couple of weeks, at many matches of the First and Second Football Leagues the fans were chanting against Mihaylov and company and displayed banners against them. Of course, the BFU fined the clubs for "obscene chants and banners".
– A campaign was started on social media, calling fans of all local clubs to put their differences aside and come to the Euro qualifier with Hungary on 16.11 and show their disapproval of the current BFU leaders. Later, the Bulgarian Football Union, citing commands from UEFA regarding safety, moved the match from the "Vasil Levski" stadium in Sofia to "Hristo Botev" in Plovdiv. And now the match will be played behind closed doors, because they’re scared of the protests. The fans, though, are still planning to attend the game and show their disapproval for the BFU, from around the stadium.
That's the main points, I'm sure that if you dig a little you'll find much more. Please consider doing such a video, the anti-BFU sentiments are getting stronger and we need to disturb those self-serving ex-legends in every way possible. Thank you and keep up the good work!
I hope Japan becomes the first country outside Europe and South America to win the World Cup .
The are classy and hardworking people.
A humble player like Sonny (Heung Min Son) gives great inspiration to a lot of Asian-Japanese players. Sonny of Tottenham is for real….