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Catholic My First First Spike The 5th Escudero Competition Queen (Kyoto Sanga FC) Vol.1 "A boyhood not familiar with Japanese schools, pleasure advances with father's mail!"

After returning to the stage of J in 2016 after passing through the Korea K League and the China C League, Escudero Aka Fighter. In the first interview, I heard about the background of escudero with various essences. A boyhood when I was embarrassed by words and customs, I could not make friends easily. A surprise episode that arises from the difference between Japan and Argentina. Escudero, it is wild. Rie Kato

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Kato: Today, I would like to talk to you at the Futaba Sports Omiya store, which has a close relationship with Escudero.

Escudero: Because I am a local, I used to come to buy it when I was in junior high school. Go to the bargain corner over there (laughs)

Kato: It's a triumphant return! When did you come to Japan?

Escudero: I was born in Granada, Spain, and soon went to Argentina. Japan from 3 to 7 years old, Argentina for 7 to 13 years old, Japan for 13 years old.
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Kato: You lived in Japan when you started to learn words.

Escudero:Yes. I used to speak Spanish at home and Japanese at school, but do you forget about children right away? When I returned to Argentina, I couldn't speak Spanish (laughs)

Kato:e! Did you forget that! ??

Escudero: Everything was slow, probably because I moved too much, and it was like stuttering in both Spanish and Japanese. When I returned to Argentina at the age of 7, I went to a private school for 4 hours every day after school to study Spanish and finally caught up with everyone a year later. But then I forgot all about Japanese (laughs)

Kato: Yes! !! However, when he was 13 years old, when kanji was indispensable, he returned to Japan.

Escudero:That's right. The second time I came to Japan was 13 years old, in the third semester of middle school.

Kato: Did you get used to Japan after a long time?

Escudero: Textbooks and blackboard letters are written vertically from the right side. First of all, I have a hard time fighting there and I do not know anything that I am writing. It will be erased when I printed several lines on the blackboard .... I got irritated.

I'm not particularly smart, but I was able to study like a normal person in Argentina. But in Japan, all you have to do is write your name. I can't get any test points. When that happens, I think I'm crazy.

Kato: It's humiliation ...

Escudero: Because the surroundings are still children, do not think deeply and say stupid (laugh). Even if I can not speak Japanese, I am quite angry because I understand the word "fool". "Well then did you think you can speak Spanish?"

But I'm in Japan, I'm the one who has to score points in the test, and they're not bad at all. I have to get used to Japan. I endured whatever was said and thought I would look back someday.

Kato: It was a fighting day.

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Escudero: At first, I had a grudge against my father (laughs). I was selected as the U-15 representative of Argentina, and I was told "Yes, I'm going to Japan" at the best time when the youth of Beres (Argentine 1st Division) was steadily upgrading.

Kato: That's disappointing. Beres would have been in a good environment.

Escudero: The pitch of the lawn has 21 faces, it was a great facility. With a team that will not allow me to return unless I take a bath after practicing as "like a pro." The team that came in after coming to Japan was practicing at the park at that time.

The soil ground, changing clothes is a bench ... I was confused by the difference in the environment. I told my dad that I wanted to go back to Argentina many times. I can't speak Japanese, I can't make friends, I can play soccer ...

Kato: You may feel unsatisfactory.

Escudero: I'm the type who hits my body bang bang, so I was often fouled in Japan. People say, "You're on purpose," "fix your play," but I thought, "It's natural, that's the Argentine style."

Kato: It seems that the intensity of play and heart is different from that of Argentina.

Escudero: Even after coming to Japan, when I returned to Argentina once a year, I participated in the futsal team run by my uncle, but my parents' enthusiasm was not comparable to Japan (laughs). It's not possible in Japan, but the futsal grounds are all surrounded by nets. Don't let your parents come in.

Kato: Yeah! Do you mean that you will break in?

Escudero: For example, when someone's parent said, "I'm sick of that child, go get it!", That child's parent quarreled, "Who's sick of him?" (Laughs). Even so, the court is surrounded by a net so that the match can be played properly. The same is true for every team.

Kato: Hey! By the way, Escudero's house is a former soccer player (former Urawa Reds Sergio Ariel Escudero), and his relatives are also soccer players. When you were a kid, were you called "a child of the Escudero family"?

Escudero: Bell 's was called my uncle' s nickname "pizza".

Kato: Did your uncle also play with Maradona?

Escudero:That's right. Osbart Escudero, who belongs to Urawa Reds is a person of 158 cm. In World Youth held in Japan in 1979, I fought with Maradona and won the championship. In 1981, Boca Juniors gathered some of the members and won the league, it became very famous in Argentina.

Actually, however, I, about Maradona, knew about Maradona is about 4 small days after returning to Argentina (laugh). Before that, know about my family for the first time.

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Kato: When did such an Escudero boy start thinking of trying hard in Japan?

Escudero: It was when I had cervical spine separation during the summer vacation of high 1. I used to play only soccer in Japan and Argentina, so for the first time I came to a life without soccer ... I played. Going to karaoke, coming back late at night, it's like a normal high school student does. When I was living like that, my dad got so angry that I ran away from home. I don't want to be in Japan, I don't want to play soccer.

Kato: Run away from home! ??

Escudero: Then I got a long email from my dad. "Even if you quit soccer, you're my son, so come back. It's best to have your family with you at all times. Even if you can't play soccer, quit high school, work, whatever you do I will support you, so let's continue to do it together. " At that time, I thought about various things.

Kato: What conclusion did you come to?

Escudero: My dad became a professional at the age of 17, so if I can't become a professional by the age of 16, I will quit soccer. Moreover, reading and writing in Japanese, pronunciation, and how to hold chopsticks are all perfect, and nothing is pointed out. From there ... the march started (laughs)

Kato: Hahaha! ! It was brilliant (lol)

<Continued from Vol.2> http://king-gear.com/articles/259


Interview cooperation / Futaba Sports Omiya store
http://www.futaba-sp.com/author/oomiya


Photo / Hidemi Sakuma



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