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Oh, so it's about football, right?
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It's about football.
Right.
So, um, I'm gonna read the message again.
Okay.
It was Kohio-san who sent us a message.
Kohio-san?
Alright.
Sent us a great message.
One of the greatest messages I've ever...
Alright, we got it.
So, um, she talks about the footballs.
And then, um...
質問は、山さんは普段リーグアン、that's a French football professional league,をご覧になりますか?また、フランスに留学中にはスタジアムに見に行ったりしましたか?
So, to this answer, I...
I don't see D1 games regularly, but...
One match a month.
I mean...
Okay.
And then it's highlight.
Highlight...
Ah!
A month.
Got it.
So, you're just looking at the results?
I mean, basically, yeah.
Uh huh.
There's just five minutes highlight version...
Right.
Just the scoring scenes and...
Right, right, right, right, right.
That's what I just see.
I don't like, um, you know, see all the matches and know every team members and players, everything.
No.
You're not a fan of any of the clubs?
Yeah.
I mean, actually, as I told you in the last episode, there's one huge mega club called Paris Saint-Germain.
Okay.
And basically, they're too strong and they just win the game.
Every time.
That's all.
It's boring.
Yeah.
So, it's not something exciting when you see the matches.
It's not "Ganbare!" things.
It's just, okay, they win the game and that's all.
Right.
So, it's not exciting.
If you see the Premier League in England, that's actually, there's some strong teams,
but the league no level is really high.
Okay.
And all the teams are, you know, really competitive.
Okay.
So, every single game is exciting.
It's a great match.
Yeah.
It's like always like one-one, like two-one, you know, or like six-five, you know.
Yeah.
It's always fun to see the match.
I see.
But, yeah.
Is Premier League the most popular?
I think so.
Worldwide most popular league?
Yeah.
There's five famous leagues in the world.
Okay.
One is Premier League in the United Kingdom.
One is Diga Espanola in Spain.
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And then Serie A in Italy.
And then Bundesliga, that's in Germany.
Then D-Ga in France.
So, that's, we call them "Go-Dai-Di-Gu," five biggest leagues.
But actually, Premier League is the biggest one.
I see.
So, it's like a, see there's a transfer in between those five leagues all the times.
There's some players who went to Premier League, like bottom half of Premier League teams from the champion of Bundesliga team.
So, it's like, you know.
I see.
It's so attractive.
Who are, any star players in Paris Saint-Germain?
Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar, Messi, Mbappe.
Okay.
Those are three stars.
Got it.
So, Paris-Anne, okay.
What was that?
Paris Saint-Germain?
No, no, no.
Which league?
D-Ga.
In League 1, Paris Saint-Germain is the number one.
No one can beat them.
I get it.
But, like, if they, if Paris Saint-Germain played in different leagues, are they stronger than other teams?
Or, like, I'm talking about like globally, like overall, are they strong?
Like outside of Paris-Anne?
D-Ga.
D-Ga.
There's a competition, there's a tournament called Champions League.
Okay.
Which is held basically what you said.
Got it.
All the leagues, they mash together and just form one competition.
The strongest in this earth.
I see, I see.
They're not that strong.
Okay, well, they're not that strong.
That strong, actually.
So, Neymar and Messi is in it, but they're not that strong?
I mean, they can finish like top eight or top four even sometimes.
But...
They aren't like the all-time winners or nothing like that?
No.
Really?
Yeah.
Because actually Paris Saint-Germain is a team in France, in Paris.
Okay.
But it's governed by Arabian country, actually.
Okay.
It's like a national country-owned team.
I see.
So, the country pays everything for the teams.
I see.
And they can buy, you know, star players like Messi, Mbappe, Neymar.
I see.
They buy every, you know, star players, but see, it doesn't work.
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They're just, all they have is finance and they don't have the skills and the tactics for them to make the great team.
It's just team sports.
So, if you have Messi, that doesn't mean you win all the games.
I see.
It's just having star players.
And also, they are not good friends sometimes.
Oh, really?
I'm the star, I'm the boss, you're not the boss.
And sometimes they fight each other.
Really?
The country versus the teammates?
Or are you talking about...
Messi versus Neymar.
Really?
And Mbappe.
They don't pass each other sometimes.
Really?
Yeah.
Because they are superstars.
So, that happens sometimes.
Wow.
So, see, that's why I don't like that much about that team.
Right.
It's not something like you try to train hard.
It's not true sportsmanship.
Yeah.
You just get together and do some activities as a team.
Okay, I see.
They just buy star players and just go.
I see, I see, I see.
It's not that.
But the player itself, like for example, Neymar or Messi, Mbappe.
Yeah.
Mbappe?
Yeah.
They're all very skilled players, right?
They are all very skillful players.
So, they're wasting their skills, I guess.
Yeah.
It's a waste of Messi.
Yeah.
Waste of Neymar.
True.
So, that's why now Neymar is wanting to move to a different team where he can play as he
wants.
Okay.
He can fully perform.
I see, I see.
Yeah.
But salary is really high at Paris Saint-Germain, so that's why he stays.
But, yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Interesting world.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know.
So, that's the answer.
And then, um...
リーグワンで魅力的なチームや選手がいたら教えてください。
Okay.
Okay, in French league.
Okay, yeah.
One is Clermont.
Clermont, okay.
Yeah, that's the place I was in when I was a kid.
Oh, okay.
I see.
Yeah.
At the moment, the Clermont was not strong.
Uh-huh.
They were in like Niveau League, which is weaker than the Ligue 1.
Right.
Actually, Ligue 1 is like Ligue 1.
Ah.
The Ligue 2, which is Ligue 2.
I see, I see.
So, but I guess I was one year ago or two year ago, they win all, you know, games and
then come to the Ligue 1.
I see.
Yeah.
So, actually, it's a really small, tiny town.
Not many people living there.
It's like local, local team.
I see.
But they can sometimes face those star players in Paris.
Uh-huh.
It's always exciting.
Uh-huh.
So, that's what I only recommend.
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Your hometown team.
Yeah.
What was the name again?
Clermont.
That was the name of the team, right?
Yeah.
That's also the city name.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
It's like a Osaka, Ganba, Osaka.
Uh-huh, I see, I see.
Yeah.
See, at Clermont, they have home stadium, which is really tiny.
Oh, that's cute.
That's good.
Because it's just local, countryside, small club.
I see.
Uh-huh.
So, they have only just one tiny place in like this stand like this and it's so close
to the pitch side.
Uh-huh.
So.
Yeah.
I like that.
I like this team.
I like the, yeah.
Yeah, worldwide sub players like Messi and Mbappe come to the pitch.
Yeah.
And just plays in the small stadium.
Hey, it's a.
That's cute, huh?
Versus the underdog.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like that.
Yeah.
So, that's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, um, Premier, France League.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe not.
Maybe not?
Compared to Premier League.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Oh, you're good?
I mean, Premier League, it's like they have each home team.
It's like if I was born and raised in Chiba, so Chiba FC kind of.
If you're born and raised in Liverpool, then you support Liverpool.
Your family supports Liverpool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Your grandfather, grandparents supports Liverpool for every day.
I see, I see.
It's like if you live, was born in London, like north side of London, there's a team
called Arsenal.
Mm-hmm.
And just sitting next to Arsenal, then Tottenham.
They, you know, they, each of city have their own home clubs.
Mm-hmm.
So they support.
Their local teams.
Local teams, yeah.
I see, I see.
So that's why they are, it's really deeply related to your every day.
I see.
Yeah, so, you know, some students, elementary students wear their jerseys to the school
sometimes.
And in the class, there's one Arsenal supporter, Tottenham supporter, and then fight maybe.
I see, I see.
That's happened.
I can imagine that happening.
I see that on cameras.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And even like grand, grand, you know, parents, like really, Obaachan wears the jersey.
Really?
In the stadium.
Nice.
Yeah, that's cute.
Cool, yeah.
So that's kind of, like the culture, right?
So it's a little bit different in France.
I see, I see.
Yeah.
All right.
Good talk there.
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Yeah.
Football talk.
Football talk.
Mm-hmm.
Did you get it all out?
Yeah.
Yeah?
I still want to talk about, you know, some Premier League.
Oh.
Topics with him or with her.
Mm-hmm.
Ko-hiyo-san.
Like, I feel like that's the most detailed soccer question we've ever gotten.
Yeah, true, true.
You know, in this program.
Yeah.
But actually, it's not that deep.
Aha.
The problem is just the words and...
The wordings are very...
Makes it difficult.
A little difficult, but it's just really light thing, actually.
If you understand it, it's not that...
Yeah.
So that's what I, you know, kind of struggling when I explain those things and try to make
it sound fun, but...
It's just so shut down.
...how to explain those things, yeah.
Yeah.
I get it, I get it.
So, yeah.
But anyways, yeah.
All right.
Thank you for the message, Ko-hiyo-san.
Oh, yes.
Thank you.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Thanks.
That is 917.