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We were talking about this football player.
Yeah.
That sounds like fuck you.
Yes.
When he's saying thank you.
Yes, yes.
And there's a YouTube video on it?
Yeah.
You wanted to talk to me about that on the plus, right?
Right, right, right.
What's his name?
If it matches to the plus episode and this episode.
Oh yeah, probably early.
Yeah, but anyways.
You'll find it later on the plus episode.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
カンテのキャラクター
He's カンテ.
カンテ.
K-A-N-T-E.
カンテ.
カンテ.
カンテ is saying thank you.
Maybe that's...
Hello.
No, it kind of sounds like thank you, though.
Yeah, like a...
Hi, hello.
Congratulations, first of all.
Thank you.
I mean, not bad.
Not bad?
Yeah.
There are many of those, like compilations.
Compilation videos of him saying thank you.
Not bad, I don't think.
Not bad?
Yeah.
Oh wait, thank you compilations.
Not bad.
Not bad?
Yeah, not bad.
Okay.
Not bad.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Not bad.
I mean, to me it sounds like thank you.
Oh, great.
Yeah.
Great, great, great.
Yeah.
So, but there are many, like, videos that are saying he's saying...
Fuck you.
It's funny that he makes video.
He doesn't look like the kind of guy that would say fuck you to an audience.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, there are many football players who is like, you know, kind of bad, wild.
Yeah.
Someone just, like, literally they sometimes say fuck you to the interviewer.
Oh, really?
Like, clown people in the show, you know.
Okay.
Those are one style.
Yeah, it's from the interview.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But this guy, Kante, he's very, he's not a big guy.
He's small and he runs all the time.
And he's a very honest guy.
Oh.
You know, he's very, he doesn't do any dirty plays.
He just get the ball past the, you know, teammates and just runs in defense.
Cute.
Mm-hmm.
Smiles all the time.
Oh.
And says fuck you.
That's nice.
His character makes it even more funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right, right, right.
Wow.
ミナミノのプレースタイル
Like, Minamino seishu.
Oh.
Like, isn't he, like, very aggressive?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've seen compilation videos of him being very aggressive to other football players.
Yeah.
Like, yelling.
Yeah.
Screaming.
Yeah.
Like, being combative.
Like, pulling the shirts and everything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Does he do that?
Is he famous for that?
He does.
He's famous for that.
He looks very, you know, like a clean, good looking, like a kind of prince looking.
Yeah.
He's actually from, like, from Osaka or somewhere like Kansai.
And he's a fighter.
He's actually a very fighter, strong fighter.
Okay.
Has a, you know, very hot heart inside.
Yeah.
So he's not, he's a battler.
He's a battler.
He's a fighter.
Ah, okay.
Yeah.
Is he a fair player, though?
Like, does he only do it to people who does bad to him?
Or does he, like, does he start the fight?
He's a clean player, though.
He's a fighter.
He runs all the time.
Okay.
He tackles properly, though.
He doesn't do, like, any, you know.
Under the table shit.
Yeah.
Behind the eyes shit.
Yeah.
He's just a fighter.
Okay.
But sometimes he's a striker.
Okay.
So sometimes, you know, his teammate doesn't pass to him.
Okay.
When he wanted the ball.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he got mad.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then he says to that teammate.
And then there's this one famous clip.
Okay.
Of him.
Okay.
When he was in J.D.
Okay.
And one of them, one of the player didn't pass to that Minamino-san.
Okay.
And he was mad at, to that teammate.
And he said something like that.
Yeah.
He was from foreign, somewhere from foreign country.
Teammate, right?
Teammate.
Yeah, teammate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then he got mad.
What kind of communication is that?
What the fuck is that?
Or maybe opposite.
This guy wants to get a ball.
And Minamino-san didn't pass.
Okay.
He just shoot by himself.
And he said to Minamino-san something like that.
選手間の感情と競争
And he was like,
サインじゃボケ。玉取れか。
I know.
And, you know, it was streamed through the television.
Uh-huh.
And the moment he said,
サインじゃボケ.
Uh-huh.
And then that was on the camera.
Okay.
Because then everybody knows that he said,
you know, what he said.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Even though the microphone was far away,
not just the sound itself,
but everybody knows from the mouth.
Oh, from the mouth?
Yeah.
Like, what?
I can't think of any other sport where, like,
you get mad at the team member.
I can't.
Yeah.
I literally can't.
Yeah.
It is with soccer.
With all these, like, aggressiveness.
Yeah.
Combative style.
Yeah, because they want to win the game.
I was open.
Why didn't you pass to me?
I could...
How about respecting the other player of their own decision?
How about that?
What happened to that?
What happened to that?
Yeah, there's no...
Non-existent?
I don't say there's no respect.
But maybe the passion of,
I was free!
It's, like, beyond at the moment,
and say to the teammate.
So would you think that...
Okay, let's say Minami-no-san was like,
well, okay, I don't want to...
I don't know if it's fair,
if it's, like, nice to compare players.
But, like, okay, let's not talk about Minami-no-san.
Let's say some random player.
Just random player, okay.
Random player, right?
And then this person gets angry, like, all the time
because he didn't get the ball.
Yeah.
When he was open.
Okay.
What if the other person was, like, messy?
Or, like, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Like a star player.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, the top of the top player.
Would that person still be angry at Messi?
Which one?
The angry guy?
The angry guy.
To Messi.
If Messi didn't pass the ball to him,
would he still be angry?
Not regularly.
Oh.
There are some players that get mad at Cristiano or Messi.
Okay.
And then in the next season...
He's gone?
He's gone.
Oh, dang.
That's scary.
Yeah.
That's scary.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's scary.
That's how it goes.
Oh.
Okay.
It's meant to be, like, put Messi or Cristiano on, like, ink.
And that's how they strategize as a team.
I see.
That's a rule.
Oh, I see.
You have to pass to Messi at last, kind of.
I see.
So, that guy doesn't obey the team rule.
And then next season, he's gone.
Then he's gone.
チーム戦略と選手の役割
That's scary.
Yeah.
That's true.
That's true.
But that's what the team coach decided, right?
Not Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo himself.
Because if that happens, that's kind of...
That's not healthy, right?
It's the team...
Yeah.
That's, like, the coach's decision.
Yes.
To fully utilize Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.
Right, right, right.
So, a few seasons ago, Cristiano Ronaldo was playing in England.
He was king in that one team.
Yeah.
And then transferred to Saudi Arabia.
Okay.
He was kind of, you know, got old.
Okay.
And not, like, his...
The prime...
Yeah.
You know?
And went to, like, Saudi Arabia to kind of, you know, get big money and those things.
And played, like, one or two seasons and kind of returned to that home team in England.
His mentality is still, I'm the king.
Okay.
And returned to the team.
Right.
And he behaved as if he was the king.
Okay.
But as a team decision, Cristiano isn't the king anymore.
Okay.
We compete with another team.
As a team, he's just one of the players.
Okay.
But Cristiano, he wants himself as a king.
Okay.
So it doesn't match.
Oh, okay.
And the next season...
He left?
Yeah, he left.
Oh, wow.
So that...
So it's coach or it's kantoku or managers who decide ultimately.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you think is better?
Having a star player be the king or play as a team and have everybody have the opportunity to shine?
So that's a very good question.
Mm-hmm.
So I would say if everybody shines in equal level...
Yeah.
...and everybody can score equally would be better.
Mm-hmm.
But in reality...
Yeah.
...it's actually not.
Mm-hmm.
Like, for example, Argentina won the World Cup.
Okay.
They have...
They got Messi...
All right.
...as a king.
Okay.
And all the players are kind of playing for Messi.
Okay.
And that's how they shine, you know?
Uh-huh.
Right.
If they, like, play individually, it doesn't just, you know, make any harmony.
Okay.
They have, like, one same, like, mindset.
Uh-huh.
That's how they fight as one team.
Mm-hmm.
I see.
And that's how they shine.
Uh-huh.
So I would say the latter one.
The latter?
Yeah.
Have the king be the king?
Yeah.
But it doesn't mean Messi has to score.
Uh-huh.
It just has to be, like, could be decoy.
Okay.
Could be, like, a kind of...
It's like having a strong captain.
Oh, right, right, right.
So that's...
That's true.
Yeah.
But if the king goes wrong side, that's the terrible...
That's the...
That's the very big downside of that strategy, right?
The worst...
Yeah, scenario.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's very difficult.
Oh.
But having one, like, a same, like, a target is very important when you play as a team.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah.
So that's a great question.
That's a great question, though.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah, that's ultimate question still this day.
I guess that matters for all sports, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When it comes to team sports.
Right, right, right, right.
It all matters to everyone.
Yeah.
But having, like, strong captain or, like, kind of leader on the pitch is, in any case,
is important, I think.
チームプレーと指示の重要性
How much do they listen to the coach or the team captain during plays?
So it depends on the team.
Oh, okay.
If they have good coaches, great coaches, then that...
Great coach means that he has ability, he or she has an ability to make people listen
what he wants to do, what she wants to do.
Yeah.
So...
I see.
Yeah.
I see.
Ideally, we'd want people to listen to coaches.
Yes.
But, like, reality, there are a lot of teams that don't act as the ideal way.
Yeah.
Especially, like, unprofessional level.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
Or someone like Cristiano, too, you know...
Someone too powerful to listen to coaches.
Yeah.
And sometimes he would say, say back to the coaches.
And that's not good as a team.
I see.
Yeah.
I see.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because, like, coaches at the side bench, right, they're screaming all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm like, how many people can hear that scream?
And how many people are listening to that?
Like, I don't know if that yelling is necessary.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Imagine, like...
It's a huge field, right?
Huge field.
Yeah.
And, like, 70,000, like...
And they're yelling all over.
80,000 people crowd.
Right.
Just yelling.
You can't hear that.
You can't hear a man, an old man shouting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Even in the players.
Between the players, it's hard.
Yeah.
Like, I'm the central defender and you're the side defender.
Yeah.
And I say, move to the left, move to the left, but you can't hear that.
You literally can't hear it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then...
And then shit happens.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So it's...
I've been...
I was questioning that.
Right.
That's true.
That's true.
So sometimes when the player changes, you say...
The coaches say things to the player in the bench.
Okay.
Coming in the...
Coming in player.
Yeah.
Tell the things to the players.
Like a Dengon game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I see.
Or like, for example, like a corner kick.
They gather together and then they say, like this.
Gather each other.
Or sometimes they hand a little paper.
Really?
Yeah, a little paper.
How?
And then just hand it like that.
Just hand it over?
Shit.
Can they not, like, wear headsets?
Is that not a thing?
That's not allowed.
コーチと選手のコミュニケーション
I feel like that's more official.
That's not allowed?
You can't wear, like, earphones?
To the players?
Yeah, like an earbud.
That, like, wraps your ear so it doesn't fall off.
And then, like, coaches could be like...
Yeah, like, tell the things.
Yeah, like, directly to each player.
You can't do that?
That's true.
You can't do that.
It's not allowed.
You can't wear anything.
You can't wear anything?
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
How about, like, the coach have a megaphone?
You can't do that?
It makes it so much easier because they're yelling all the time, right?
Can they just not have a megaphone on them?
True.
Like, it's easier for their throats, I'm sure.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's very reasonable, but I've never seen...
Anyone use a megaphone?
Anyone use a megaphone before, but that's true.
Yeah.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.