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[Neueste Informationen zu High School Soccer]Aomori Yamada High School (Aomori) defeated Omi High School (Shiga) in the final of the 102nd National High School Soccer Championship, winning the championship for the first time in two tournaments and the fourth time.
Aomori Yamada is managed by manager Masanori Masaki. He has assisted the team as a coach since 2004, succeeding the previous manager Tsuyoshi Kuroda (current manager of Machida Zelvia), who was in charge from 1994 to 2022, and has achieved “results”. (Interview and text by Akihiko Kawabata)
■Visit Brazil with Koji Yamase
Its “origin” lies in Brazil.
Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Coach Masaki Masaki played baseball until the fourth grade of elementary school, but when he entered middle school he changed course and moved to the other side of the world. He went to Brazil to study football.
“If my child said something like that, I would definitely object.”
The current director Masaki, who has become a father, laughs.
The person who crossed the sea with him from Hokkaido was Koji Yamase. It was the first time that he and his talented midfielder, who later became a member of the Japanese national team, lived in a foreign country. The world he had imagined was different from the image of brilliant and talented Brazilian football and was instead a place of competition for young boys who “really made a living playing football”.
“Without a doubt, the experience I had back then still applies to me today.”
Of course there is technology. Experiencing a world where players cannot survive if they are not competitive has led to Masaki’s current view of football.
After returning to Japan as an exchange student for two and a half years, the course of study he chose was once again different from what those around him had expected. When he received an offer from Principal Tsuyoshi Kuroda, a young coach from Hokkaido who was in his twenties and had become the coach of Aomori Yamada High School, he crossed Tsugaru Street and entered uncharted territory.
“I never thought I would stay in Aomori for so long.”
3 years of high school life. After securing a starting spot as a first-year player, he struggled with Aomori Yamada, which was still not considered a national powerhouse. In his third year, he became captain and number 10, became a stalwart starter and achieved something Aomori Yamada had never managed: compete in the championship three years in a row. They were the generation that ushered in a golden era with a team that had never won two consecutive prefectural championships, but when you ask Mr. Masaki about those days, he always says, “My generation won the prefectural championship at the top.” “Them Defeat in the preliminary round was the last game Aomori Yamada lost in the prefecture.”
By the way, since Masaki’s three consecutive victories, Aomori Yamada has never relinquished its supremacy in Aomori Prefecture.
■Division of work with Director Kuroda
Kenichi Arai
After studying at Sendai University, he returned to his alma mater as a teacher because he received a love call from Principal Kuroda, who said, “I admired other prestigious schools where students had returned to work as staff.” Since then He acted as “Kuroda’s employee” for 19 years and accompanied the process of developing Aomori’s power plant into the strongest school in the country.
“Tsuyoshi Kuroda definitely had a big influence on me. We’ve been together for a long time and I’ve learned a lot from him.”
With increasing experience, his relationship of trust deepened and his commander gradually handed over authority to him. At that time, one of the reasons why Coach Kuroda, including the junior high school, “became convinced that it would be better for me to focus on the overall management of the team and to bring the team together from a position that it “One step back” was: “If I could leave it to Masaki, “I feel like it’s okay to leave things to me.”
As a result, this division of labor became the source of the strongest team. As Masaki incorporates his own ideas into the training, he says, “Because I’m a coach, I never say anything that Coach Kuroda wouldn’t say, and I know what’s important.” “I appreciated it,” he says .
“Teams where the coach puts too much of himself into the team and starts saying things that are different from what the coach says quickly deteriorate. It’s really bad for the players when they don’t know who to listen to.” On the contrary: I was careful because the coach would be away from the team for a long time.
This change in coach Kuroda, who said, “I delegated parts to other people and started thinking about decisions and the organization as a whole,” led to not only the rapid progress of Aomori Yamada, but also the current Machida. I think it’s similar in some ways, but it also led to intense growth of a leader, Masanobu Masaki.
Last fall, when “Director Masaki” was born, director Kuroda declared, “Masaki will be fine. I don’t think it will be easy, but I’m not particularly worried.” These two men have a uniquely strong relationship of trust, and in that moment I once again realized how important Masaki Masanobu is to director Kuroda.
In fact, I had no qualms about coaching football. However, the director’s work is not yet finished. The impact of the departure of someone who is the symbol and face of the team will certainly be felt. For this reason, the retirement of a coach in high school football often represents the end of an era. There were many people who sensed the “end of the Aomori Yamada era.”
■The appearance changes depending on the result.
Kenichi Arai
Last year’s National High School Soccer Championship finished in the top eight. Later, at the Tohoku Rookie Tournament, Coach Masaki said, “Aomori Yamada is the one who makes a lot of people ask, ‘Why are you in the top 8?’ It’s really amazing that we made it to the top 8 have achieved in the country and the players have done a great job. With a wry smile, he said, “I know that whether I get results this year or not, the way others see me will change.”
Although he said, “I don’t say things like that to the players,” he had a strong desire to focus on “results” to continue the tradition of the prestigious team. In the Prince Takamado Trophy Premier League that started in April, this enthusiasm had a positive effect and the team achieved good results. They won a big victory over the J-youth teams and were able to impress that “Aomori Yamada is alive and well.”
However, they were defeated in the third round of the national high school tournament that summer. “In both the first and second games, I was in a hurry to win, which was the reason for our defeat,” said coach Masaki. “We have always been a bright team, but we have become dark.” Aomori Yamada’s main concern is to focus on winning. However, if you try too hard to win and end up losing, you are putting the cart before the horse.
The recent championship reflected these thoughts as feedback. The pressure mounted as they cruised to victory, but even before the final, the players posed for a group photo with big smiles and embodied on the field the “Aomori Yamada-like look” that the coach has always espoused as a coach . . Strong, fierce and fast, they outscored Omi High School on both offense and defense, limiting them to just two shots and posting a comfortable 3-1 victory. This is his fourth title as a coach.
He emphasizes that he “didn’t feel any pressure” as a director. The players also say: “He is someone who never shows us that he is worried.” (MF Rei Shibata) But even the Man of Steel, who once saw coach Kuroda crying after becoming number one in Japan , asked himself: “Why was he crying?” At the moment of victory, tears flowed. “Is that the director?” I thought too.
The coach who always said: “I have no interest in the J League. “I want to be someone who supports the players,” and turned his focus to the next season after the final. The snow is getting deeper in Aomori, but it looks like another strong team is emerging under a smiling coach who says, “Aomori Yamada doesn’t run from the snow.”
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