三笘選手のワールドカップ出場絶望と怪我の原因
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Hello.
Hey guys.
Hello.
How's it going?
Anything happened this week, man?
Umm...
Anything worth noting?
Umm...
Oh yes, um...
You know the World Cup? The football World Cup iscoming.
Oh, yes.
Did you see that?
I saw the information.
You're talking about Mitoma not being in the game?
Oh, yeah.
Is that what you're talking about?
Yeah.
Damn.
I was like, what?
Yeah.
I really wanted to see Mitoma.
Mm-hmm.
Why?
He's injured.
Which part of his body was...
Umm... It's the hamstrings.
The hamstrings?
Yeah.
So there's nothing we can do about it?
Umm...
But we need him though.
Yeah.
We do.
We need him though.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean...
Can you do anything for him?
Like special treatment or like...
As an engineer...
Yeah.
For Google, Apple, Facebook...
Meta.
Meta.
Yeah.
There's nothing I can do, man.
I tried to look for things.
Oh, yeah?
I tried.
It just wasn't in the data.
Yeah.
So it was a few... Two weeks ago, I guess.
During the league match...
Mm-hmm.
You know, Brighton...
Yeah.
He's in...
He's got injured.
Yeah.
And during the match, he was like...
Suddenly stopped running and...
Like lay down on the pitch.
Okay.
And he was like covering his face.
Okay.
Almost kind of crying.
Oh, man.
And we knew that...
From the actions and everything...
That was a serious one.
And we knew that he knew...
That he might not gonna be...
You know...
Make it to the World Cup.
Damn!
And we were all worrying...
Mm-hmm.
For weeks.
Yeah.
Whether like...
If it's a light injury...
Mm-hmm.
You know, World Cup is like...
You have one month and a half...
For whole like...
If you go to the finals and everything.
Yeah.
So...
If it's a light injury, you can...
Maybe he can be...
Maybe picked up.
Yeah.
Maybe...
But...
We were all hoping for that to happen.
But no.
Who's the motherfucker that did that?
Nobody.
It was just...
He was just running...
And just...
It happened.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
He was running and he just injured himself?
Yes, yes.
What the fuck was that?
Does that happen?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Like too much amount of running...
And stop and running...
Dash, stop running...
And like jumping and everything.
You do like many matches in...
You know, short period and...
Especially like...
Some players like Mitoma...
He's like very fast...
And stop very suddenly.
And then like...
You know...
The muscles has to be...
Very used heavily.
And...
Sometimes it happens.
Oh, man.
So we can't take the anger out on anybody.
Oh, man.
There's nobody to blame.
There's nobody to blame.
交代選手の可能性とチーム戦略への影響
It was just him.
Yeah.
It's not something like, you know...
Somebody like tackled him and...
Nothing like that.
Like...
Nobody did nothing behind the referee's back?
You know, like...
Punch somebody in the face?
No, no.
God damn.
Oh, man.
Is there a possibility where like...
Let's say that...
You know, Japan makes it to the top four.
Maybe even the finals, right?
And then Mitoma would come in.
And then like...
Is that possible?
So...
All the team...
Teams has to be like fixed.
Before the game starts.
So...
Right now...
It's 26 players.
For one team.
But it's...
It's very like...
It sometimes happens that FIFA...
Like says like things like...
You can include 30 players for one team suddenly.
Like...
Few weeks before the tournament began.
Okay.
So then...
You can like...
Call some players like additionally.
But I'm not sure.
Historically, how...
What's the possibility of that happening?
50%.
But 50%?
Yeah, sometimes it happens.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it's...
Higher than I thought.
And also...
They have like 26 players.
That's the squad.
That's the full team.
And you have like support member.
Who...
They're not gonna be in the bench.
Okay.
But they can kind of...
Come with the team.
They can like...
Do like trainings together maybe.
I see.
They're like a support member.
I see.
It's like an emotional support.
Yeah, kind of.
And like physical...
And physical too.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So that's a big thing.
Emotional support.
And...
So the 26 players were announced like officially.
But not yet for the support member.
Got it.
So he could be there.
So maybe...
That's something the coach is thinking.
Okay.
That like they collect.
And call him in the support member.
And then...
But the support member cannot ever be in the pitchthough, right?
Yeah.
But something happens to the main squad.
Like injured things happen.
Then you can replace them.
From the support members.
Okay.
So...
That can be the only option.
I see.
You're talking about...
So even if there's people in the bench waiting togo in the pitch.
The coach could be like...
Instead of using the guys waiting in the bench.
I'm gonna use this support member to go in theteam.
That could happen.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's the only way.
That Mitoma could be in the game.
Yes.
And also you need to like win continuously.
And...
You need to win the time for Mitoma to recoverfrom the injury.
Right.
So...
Right.
So...
長友選手の選出と他の注目選手
Man.
Oh, that's terrible.
Yeah.
That's sad news right there.
I was really sad.
Yeah.
Disappointed.
Me too.
Yeah.
Any other big news with the people?
I heard that...
What was his name?
Who's that?
The...
Japanese player?
Yeah.
Nagatomo.
Nagatomo, yeah.
Yeah, Nagatomo is in the member.
Yes, yes, yes.
And...
Is he getting backlash from that?
People talking about...
I mean, if he were to be in there, he should be acoach, not a player.
Yeah.
Some?
Understandable.
Like both side.
Okay.
I mean, I thought that was exciting.
Yeah.
Up to see him play.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, he can play.
He has the level.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
He's not something like...
Somebody like, you know, all pops and just saying...
Like yelling from the bench.
He can play.
He still got it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's why he was chosen, right?
So...
But at the same time, yes.
As a kind of like a leader,
you need, you know, somebody like him in the team.
You know, it's the team.
So...
Right.
You have to be team.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then somebody like Nagatomo,
they need people like him.
Can we still expect, you know, Japan to be the topdogs?
Well, yeah.
I hope so.
I'm still hoping so.
But it is true that we lost the biggest part ofthe scout.
He's number one.
Yes.
Right?
Yes.
The best weapon, like...
Right.
The best card that we had.
So, yes, that is true.
So maybe we have to change how we play againststrong opponents.
Because we don't have Mitoma.
So maybe we maybe have to like shift to the...
Like something like more like a defensive way.
Not like strong in attacking style.
Okay, okay.
But that doesn't mean we don't have like any hopeto, you know, beat them.
So...
But yeah.
But yes.
Man.
Yeah.
I do understand.
Yeah.
How.
Yeah.
Who do we still have that's like a superstar?
We have Kubo.
Yeah, Mr. Kubo.
Kubo Takefusa.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
We have Ito Junya.
Ito Junya?
Yes.
He's the fastest guy.
Okay.
We have...
Nakamura Keito.
Okay.
I think he's gonna be the option for the place ofMitoma.
Okay.
The left wing side.
Got it.
He's gonna be the card.
Okay.
And I think he's pretty good player.
Okay.
Like...
Oh, Mitoma's good.
Yes, he's good.
But Nakamura Keito isn't like...
Honestly, he's a good player.
Yeah, so...
Okay, okay.
I see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've got Tomiyasu.
Okay.
The defender.
He's back from the injury.
We've got Endo Wataru.
He's the captain back from the injury too.
How about Doan?
Oh, yes.
We have Doan.
He's healthy.
He's always healthy.
Oh, that's good.
He's always motivated.
Oh, yeah.
He's got a soul.
Yeah, he does have a soul.
I can see that.
Yeah.
Okay.
I see.
Yeah.
And also we have Ueda Ayase.
He's gonna be the striker.
I see.
The guy.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
ワールドカップ初戦の相手と大会への展望
When do we have the next match?
It's gonna be...
The first match will be June 13th or 15th.
Something like that.
June, okay.
I don't know.
So, it's next month?
Yes.
Wait.
Is that like the actual World Cup happening?
Oh, man.
So, the actual World Cup, like opening match ofthe World Cup,
it is gonna be June 12th.
That's gonna be Mexico versus South Africa.
Okay.
And for Japan, June 15th.
That's the first match.
What time is it?
United States?
I think it's...
So, this is Japan time.
5 o'clock.
5 o'clock in the morning.
That's not gonna happen, but okay.
All right.
So, it's against Netherlands.
Which is a pretty strong player, no?
Yes.
Right.
The strongest team in the group.
There's four countries in the group, right?
Yes.
Got it.
So, this is gonna be the very, very importantgame.
Oh, that's tough, man.
First one's tough.
Yes.
Man.
If you lose this match, then you have to...
It's gonna be very tough.
It's gonna be a tough tournament.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, God.
This is a very important first match, then.
Yes.
My God.
It is.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
I hope they'll do good, man.
Yeah.
But I think we can do some pretty good matches,though.
Even if we don't have the strongest card, but...
Okay.
As, like, a team, a collective team, group of theplayers,
I think we still have some qualities, so...
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, I'll hope for the best.
Yeah.
I really do.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.