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All right. This one then. Oh, I saw a, not related with anything I've said, but I saw a news
the other day of Japan versus China, the soccer 9-0, right? I didn't know that. Oh,
well, let me, like the Asia Cup. Hold on. It's like a, it's like two months ago or something.
Oh, two months ago. Okay. Okay. Um, 7-0. Oh, 7-0. 7-0. Yeah.
Do you think that's because, so you said that this year, this season, this,
Japan could really have a shot of winning the World Cup. Yes. Is that, you think the 7-0 came
from because the Japan is such a team or you think that China was a little bit, having a
trouble with, or a little bit of both, which one do you think? So a little bit of both. Okay. True.
But mainly Japan is too strong. Japan is too strong. So not only versus China, many other
countries, including Australia, um, Iraq, UAE, or other relatively strong country in Asia,
like 3-0, 4-0. Japan won against them. Wow. That's impressive. They're too strong.
That's impressive. It's like they don't have any enemies in Asia now. Wow. Korea?
No, anymore. How, how, what's the score in Korea? They, was it like a 3-0 or something?
I'm not sure if they already fought against. Oh, okay. But see the result
and everything. It looks like, um, yeah, so we haven't fought versus Korea yet. Okay. But
see the result of Korean team against, you know, countries, it's like 1-1. They're now like, um,
yeah, Japan is like winning the, like 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, destroying the countries and winning every,
every matches. Whereas Korea is like one, like a, you know, not strong country, 0-0.
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I mean, Korea has pretty much good, good players though.
But it's predicted that Japan's going to dominate. I mean, Japan is, it's too strong.
Korea isn't a bad team. Yeah. It's, it used to be like that, Asian qualifications. It's always like,
yeah, like that. Excited, exciting games, like 0-1. Yeah. Penalty kicks and everything. Yeah. No,
it's just too much. What happened to Japan? What, what happened to Japan? Just players are too
strong. Players, each player has too much skills. Yes. Like what? Like Mitoma? Like Mitoma.
Kubo? Kubo, of course. But who else? Dongwon? Yeah. Like including defenders. Endo. Endo?
Endo's great. Endo's great. Yeah. Okay. Tomiyasu. He's, he's the, the kind of defensive leader.
Okay. But he's out now. He's out? What do you mean out? Injury. Oh, okay. Even he's out.
The team's still fantastic? Still fantastic. Oh, that's exciting. Yeah. So they could really just,
they could really win. I mean, honestly, yeah. Oh, that's exciting. When's the,
when's the actual World Cup? Um, next, yeah. The next, 2026, I guess. So the next year. Next year?
Next year or next, next year. Oh, I see. Yeah. I gotta wait a little more. But I mean, honestly.
That's exciting. Yeah. It's, honestly, we can get it. Yeah. But still, if you, if you take a look
at European teams. Yeah. Like the Netherlands. Spain. Spain, right? They're, they're out of this
world, right? Yeah. They're strong. They're very strong. They're very strong. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
So, um, yeah. True. They're very strong. But they have, but we still have possibilities of winning.
Yeah. Yeah. I hope their streak continues until the actual World Cup. Right, right, right, right.
I'm sure they have ups and downs, right? Of course. They're getting, um, some player getting
older, of course. Yeah. Right. And, you know, good times and bad times, of course. Yeah.
You know, um, but also they're very young. Uh-huh. Yeah. Endo-san, he's 30, around us,
30-something. Really? Yeah. But mainly like 20-few, like Kubo-san is like 20-something.
Tomiyasu, 20. Wow. Yeah. The team is really young. They have a real shot. Yeah.
Messi is now, is, uh, in Thai? Is he joining? The last World Cup was his last World Cup, right? Yeah.
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That's what he said. Oh, but it might be a lie. But, um, a few months ago, there were like
Argentina versus, uh, it was, I think, um, South African, South American Cup,
just like Asian Cup. Yeah. South American version. Yeah. He was there. Oh, he was.
So it was a lie. He was there. He ruined the enemies. He scores, he assists, he does everything.
Yeah. He was there. How about, uh, Cristiano Ronaldo? He's there.
Okay. He, he, he scores. He scores. He's the superstar. Yes. He, he still has like the
perfect body. Perfect body. Yeah. How about Mbappé? He is not shining now. I thought Mbappé was like
one of the top 90 more. Yeah. Like Mbappé and Haaland, those two are like said next stars.
But both of them... They're not doing a good job? Not shining as they, they before.
No, no, I mean, not bad players, but... Cristiano and Messi are better. Still the superstars?
Yeah. They've been superstars for too long. Yeah. I mean, it's too much.
Yeah. Yeah. They're different, different, I don't know, dimension, different level. It's...
It's, it's completely different. Oh, they're not doing soccer? No, it's like you can't reach the,
for example, like a goal, goal record. It's, it's, it's...
I mean, it's, it's too much. They're too... So just the DNA is just not different? It's different.
Messi is alien, Cristiano is cyborg. I mean, this is different.
So we were kind of lucky that we could see Messi on a live playing. Right. Right. I think they are,
and they are going to be the historical players of football. Like Babe Ruth and baseball. Yeah.
And those things. Yeah. It's like, they're too much. They're too much.
Scary, huh? Yeah, it's scary. They are scary.
Who's your, uh, chūmoku player, Japanese, uh, daihyō?
Who's the kantoku? Moriassan. Oh, like last year? Yeah. Since the last competition, World Cup.
But the last competition, when he did the head coach, he was like,
um, really like, um, I would say like hoshuteki. He didn't want to do like attack and try new things,
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but like a makenai team. It was kind of, I would say boring. You have talents in there,
but you don't use those talents. But rather just keep it defensive. Yeah. Yeah. But this time
he's using those talents and how to attack them. And so that's pretty much interesting now. Okay.
Yeah. The chūmoku player? Chūmoku player, um, well, Kubo-san. Kubo-san? Okay. Is he like the
most skilled player in the Japanese? Um, yeah, I would say so. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or
Tomiyasu. Tomiyasu? He's a center back. Endo-san. Endo-san? Yeah. He's the central
midfielder and he does everything. Okay. And he distributes passes and block everybody and
he's the captain, so. Okay. Umitoma. Umitoma? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, from the eyes of an amateur,
Umitoma seems like the guy that whenever he touches the ball, sort of shit moves. Right.
Right. So I feel like Umitoma is like the key player, but maybe not. Yeah. Yeah. He's the key
player. He's the key player and he's going to be the star in a few years for sure. Yeah. So in the
last World Cup, Umitoma was like played in a defensive role. Kubo was playing in a defensive
role. They were defenses? Yeah. I mean, if they have a chance, they go up. But when starting
position was like very low defensive. Okay. So that doesn't, you know. I thought those two players
were good for their offenses. Yeah, they are. But now Moriya-san uses two players in an offensive
area. Nice. Yeah. Nice. Umitoma's great. Yeah. Yeah. Umitoma's great. Yeah.
It's exciting. Yeah. And one more um, chumoku player is Honda-san.
Honda-san? Yeah. Honda Keisuke? Yes. He's not playing, is he? He's like the coach now, right?
Yes. Yes. Head coach now. Yeah. I love his kaisetsu. Ah, is he going to kaisetsu? You think
he's going to kaisetsu again? I want him to do that. I would love to hear his kaisetsu. Yeah. I
would love to. He said, no, I'm not going to do this anymore. Oh, why? But. He should do it. Yeah.
He should do it. I would love him to. Yeah. I would love to hear that. Yeah. Right. So next
year, maybe. Next year, maybe. Next next year. Next next year, maybe. Yeah. I want to know before
we end the show. All right. And it's in the USA, you know, in America. Right. Not only in USA,
in America continent. The American consul, South America as well. You're saying, is that what you're
saying? Um. Chubei made datta kana. Chubei? Yeah. America, Mexico, Canada. Ah, okay. So North
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America. So North America. Got it. In 2026. Ne, ni-sei-ni-ji-roku-ne. Yes.
A year and a half. That's a long wait. Right. Right. Right. Will Japan do other fights
until then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're still in the final qualification games. Oh, we kind of
done. We just beat everybody. Yeah, we know it. We know you're going to be in it, but you still
have to do some games with Korea. Yeah, with some teams. And we also have the NHGIs. Oh,
so we can still watch that too. Against strong teams like Germany, Spain, Netherlands. Well,
that's exciting. Yeah. That's exciting. That's exciting. Well, I'm going to watch that. What
are some of the countries that I should watch that are expected to be exciting?
Netherlands. Japan versus Netherlands. Spain. NHGIs. Yeah. Spain versus Japan. I'm not sure
that if it's fixed or not. If they're going to do it, but okay. Yeah, but Netherlands strong.
Netherlands strong. Spain strong. Spain strong. Spain. Neymar, right? Spain. Neymar is Brazil.
Oh, Brazil. Yeah, but Brazil would be nice. Yeah. But Neymar is now, he's boom, like.
Oh, really? Gone chubby? Yeah. Ate too much? Yeah. He's slow now. What happened?
He got injured. And he got fat? What? What happened? I mean, it's kind of a little bit sad.
Oh, I mean. Well, I mean, okay. Brazilian players tend to become like that. Like that? Yeah. When
they injured or retired. Okay. Kind of slow. Okay. All right. I'll be excited for the match.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Thanks for sitting guys. Bye-bye.
