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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hey guys, how's it going?
Yes.
World Cup.
Yes.
I'm assuming. Okay.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes, I saw the last half.
Last half? Okay, second half you mean.
Okay.
Yes, the second half.
Okay.
Okay.
So...
You, you, you, um...
I got through on like a...
TV, TV.
Yeah, TV.
Yes.
So 4-0.
Yes, 4-0.
Yes.
Huge win for Japan.
Yes.
Congratulations.
That's great.
That's great.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations.
You did a very good job.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yes.
Me too, I did a very good job as well.
Honestly, we did great.
Um...
Yeah.
So overall, what's your take?
So I would say it was a huge win.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
All right, I'm gonna charge this.
Keep talking.
Keep on talking.
Go ahead.
So, um, yeah.
It was like, um...
Yeah.
It wasn't even a tough game to, to Japanese team.
Yeah.
It was like, they were like, they didn't even, um,it, the game looked very, I would say,
I would say a bit like, um, like a boring, I wouldsay, in a very good way.
Because they're so powerful.
Yeah.
Japan's so powerful.
It was like, I don't say it was an easy win.
Mm-hmm.
But like, um, the level of the team was, to me, itwas so different.
We were like way higher than the opponent.
Yeah.
So, um, it, it was great.
It was great.
Like, it wasn't like the World Cup game.
Ah, okay.
It looks like one of, like, trading match or likesome, some, something, um, different.
Like, um, Japanese team was like very calm, very,um, like, uh, not excited in a bad way.
Okay.
They were like very, like, concentrated.
Like, um, you know, very, um, like a kenjutsu.
Yeah.
And that was something that I have, that I, thatI've never seen Japanese team on the World Cup
in history, in history.
So it was fresh to me.
All right.
We're talking about the Tunisia.
Mm-hmm.
Tunisia sent by the way.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes, yes, yes.
Sorry.
Um.
The second game of that group stage.
Right.
It was yesterday.
Was it more of like Tunisia?
How do you say Tunisia in English?
Tunisia?
Tunisia?
Tunisia?
Tunisia?
Tunisia?
Hold on, let's look it up.
Tunisia.
Tunisia.
Okay.
Was it more of that Tunisia was not able to adaptto the Japanese, you know, uh, way of
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fighting?
Yeah.
Rather than Japan was so powerful.
I mean, I'm sure it was a little bit both, butlike Honda-san was like, you know, Tunisia
was not able to adapt to Japan.
That's why Tunisia lost.
Yeah.
It was more like Tunisia lost than Japan won.
Okay.
Is that, do you think it's true?
Um, yeah, it's, it's, it's, um, so it was a bigfactor that, um, they changed their
manager, um, I think three, four days ago.
Oh, damn.
It was three, four days ago.
Yeah.
So, so the first game of football Tunisia, theylost against, um, Sweden.
Right.
And then the, the football association of Tunisiadecided to change the manager after
that game.
Is that even possible?
Yeah.
It's, it's very rare.
Okay.
It is very rare.
So like new manager came, you know, the whiteshirt.
Yes.
Yeah.
He's a famous, um, coach.
Okay.
He has a good skill management skills andeverything.
But I think he was three days before the game.
He came to the team.
Okay.
And then imagine like, what can he do?
Like what?
So, right.
Yes.
I think that's one of the, um, big reason of, ofthis result.
I see.
I see.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
What could he have done?
Yeah.
Okay.
And after the, the game, yes, last, last, um,yesterday's game, I, I watched some
interviews from Tunisia players, but they weresaying about, um, that head coach came
just a few days ago and the association didn'tlike, like organize everything professionally.
Like, so it wasn't like players fault.
I would say it's more like, um, association.
Yeah.
As a whole group.
Okay.
They didn't, um, they couldn't manage it well.
Okay.
I see.
So yeah.
Lucky for Japan.
Yes.
Yes.
Because Tunisia is a good team.
Okay.
It's a good team.
They've got some skilled players, skilled,skillful players.
And some players were very nice, but to me, likethey didn't, they haven't decided yet.
Like how should, should, how they should likedefend or offend.
Right.
Like tacticals and everything.
To me, it was very in between.
I see.
Of like, whether if you, you go pressing or youmake, you, you build, um, defensive blocks,
they were like in between and like, everything waskind of loose and, and they, to me, like
they have like a mayoi in their mind and like,like a, you know.
Isn't that something that the coach can like onthe spot be like, Hey, you guys are kind
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of like hesitating.
We should go on the offense.
Let's go in the office.
Isn't that what the coach should have done or?
Yeah.
That's what he should have done.
But he didn't do it.
Yeah.
I mean, he, he, I think he was trying to do.
Okay.
I saw some clips during the match.
He was like saying, like yelling something to theplayers and like doing these gestures
to the people.
So I think, but it's, it's difficult.
It's just two, three days.
Right.
It's, it's very difficult to change somethingsuddenly.
Oh, okay.
And, uh, yeah.
It's interesting how important a tactic could be,you know, I, you know, from this level
that I am right here.
I've, I mean, I've thought that the individuallevel, like individual levels of, you know,
individual players is what matters.
And like, if you're like good individually, thencollectively as a team, you'll automatically
be, you know, a great team.
But I guess teamwork is something very important.
Yes, yes, yes.
So like for Japan, Moriya-san has been the coachfor, I think more than, I don't know,
like seven, eight years, I guess.
Wow.
So obviously it's a huge difference as in liketeam, um, like a grow, growth.
Yeah.
So.
I see.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
But you know, any, like ignoring all that teamworkstuff, Japan is a higher ranked team.
Um, Tunisia, I guess.
Okay.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it was a great game though.
It's like, it's always been a difficult for, forJapan to win World Cup games.
Yeah.
Because it's one of the highest level competition.
So it's rare, like 4-0 and like how they won, likecomfortably, very calm.
Like it was, it looked like we were like some kindof countries like Spain, Brazil, like,
yeah, some, some, some, yeah.
Right.
Like very 強豪国, how they, you know, fight and howthey passing and everything.
Wow.
Yeah.
Nice, nice.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
The second half, the Moriya-san put some fresh,fresh faces into the ground.
Right, right.
That was something good.
Like something, it's, it's, you know.
Yeah.
Because Japan used to like put highest levelplayers all the time and.
Right.
See if we can win or things like that.
But now like they put some like younger guys and.
Right, right.
Younger guys and try some of those players and.
Yeah.
Wow.
I wanted to see, um.
Shiogai?
Shiogai-san.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know.
Yeah.
He played in the first game, so.
Oh, he did.
Yeah.
So now it's the, the other guy.
I see.
Goto-san.
I see, I see.
Chance.
So they were like competing each other.
First game, Goto-san, uh, Shiogai.
And then now Goto.
And like, you know.
I see, I see.
Two young strikers.
I see, I see.
Yeah.
I want to talk to you about, um, the specificscene.
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
From, um, from the match for the next episode.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
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