Honda Yasuto is awesome! Vol.2 "It was a spike of admiration, Yasuda's Teikyo model"

Honda boy who went on to prestigious · teikyo high school from the middle school in Kitakyushu. Behind the entry into Teikyo, there was a bold sales of his father.

Icon aff20898 d2d2 431d 8b05 0f3c5e5ae91bHidemi Sakuma | 2017/05/15
<From vol.1, from here>

――After going to the soccer club of a powerful junior high school in Kitakyushu, you went on to Teikyo High School in Tokyo. How did you end up going to Teikyo?

HondaTeijin High School director Sadao Furusuma came to see the opponent's players when participating in a junior high school national competition, and during the game, my father was saying "Please look at my son" for the match () Lol).

In that game I took three points, it took a voice and I decided to go to Teikyo High School. In the synchronization of Teikyo there was Yokomitsu Shigai and Mr. Yasuyuki Moriyama. As a Japanese representative of Junior Youth with them, they fought together in the second qualifying session of the Asian Games.
 

――It seems that there are many episodes about Mr. Isogai.

HondaWhen I first saw the shellfish, I thought that the behavior, action, play was too big, not the same age, adults (laugh). He dropped out of Tokai University and was active in Gamba Osaka, but he was going to play golf the next day of the game and he probably aimed for a professional golfer from that time. His story is exhausted (laugh)

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――How was the Teikyo Soccer Club practice?

HondaThey lined up in five rows and performed Brazilian gymnastics while shouting “1, 2, 3! 2, 2, 3!” .

When the director was there, I was doing only basic practice. It could be pass & go or pass & control. When the coach left, for some reason I just kept running away from the ball (laughs).

- Which manufacturer wearing spikes in high school?
 

HondaProfessor Konuma had a relationship with Asics, and since the junior youth representative was wearing ASICS, I kept wearing ASICS.

- Is it about when ASICS began to focus on football?


HondaI think so. In the soccer club, there were many people wearing Yasuda's Teikyo model spikes (the same color as the uniform), so I was envious. I used to own a Teikyo model, but I was in a position where I could only wear Asics, so I had it displayed in my room for three years (laughs). Asics were wide and the leather was soft, so they didn't fit my feet.

- What kind of road did you choose after you finished high school?
 

HondaAs I heard that Honda Motor Soccer Club is aiming for entering the J - League, I worked as an office worker at Honda Motor Co., Ltd. for two years after my high school and I was playing football in a position like a semi - professional. In the next two years I made a professional contract with the company and devoted himself to football.

Mr. Soichiro Honda who was emphasizing sports such as F1 died, the company turned direction after the change of the president, I was shocked because I abandoned entering the J-League (lol). Since I wanted to live as a professional football player, there were offers from several teams entering the J - League and thought about what to do, but remained in Honda while watching the appearance.
 

- What was the spike that I was wearing at Honda?
 

HondaWhen I entered Honda, I was wearing ASICS, but Mr. Kurosaki Hisashi Kurosaki who was wearing an adidas spike at the soccer club senior (Note · Honda - Kashima - Kyoto - Kobe - Niigata - Omiya was active in the former Japan representative FW) introduced the person in charge, made a contract with Adidas, wearing what was paid.

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――Why did you join Kashima Antlers out of the many J clubs?

HondaWhen I was in the 4th year of Honda, I was able to compete with the Sumitomo Metals Football Club (later Kashima Antlers) where Zico I adore was. So desperately doing a defense Zico was quite angry and began to remember me (laugh).

In addition, Mr. Miyamoto Makoto, who served as Honda 's coach, decided to move to the Sumitomo Metal Football Club as a director from the following year and Mr. Miyamoto invited seven people including me to join together, I decided to transfer.

You can play on the same team as Zico, and there are stadiums, clubhouses, and grounds dedicated to soccer, so you can devote yourself to soccer. There was no hesitation at all, partly because of the good environment.

- How did you get in Kashima?
 

HondaAt first it was terrible. Kicking and stopping the ball, players who are not doing important things. Moreover, I can not run. Director Miyamoto was suffering, I ran into the first 4 months and repeated the basic practice I was doing at Honda.

Mr. Miyamoto treated the players from Honda to katsudon and bowed his head, saying, "I'm sorry, but please do the basic practice together!" (laughs)

- What was the spike in those days?
 

HondaI planned to sign contract with Adidas as a professional player after transferring to Kashima, but the team contracted with Mizuno from uniforms to spikes, so I wore Mizuno for two years.

After that, I asked Adidas to measure the shape of the foot, I was wearing the original, but that does not suit why (laugh). Somewhere in my leg was caught inside the spike and it was useless.

So I tried variously, heavily weighted the heel (heel) with commercially available items, and put on something thinned by slightly scooping the toes. When you stepped on to the side, the gap of the foot got lost, it became easier to turn. 

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- Have you divided the spikes according to the pitch condition?

HondaI wanted to stepping strongly, so I wore a long replacement spike at any pitch. Adidas' spikes are narrow and I think that it is wonderful because it meets my requirements.

In contrast to myself, Shikiro Kikuhara (Note · Yomiuri - former Japan national team played in Urawa) had only wearing fixed type, did not he? Moreover, since I was wearing a rather loose one without ties, when I struck a shot, the spike was well removed (laugh). Regarding strings, I pass through from the outside, and are binding tightly so as not to loosen.
 

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――How was Zico of your admiration?

Honda: Zico was surprised anyway. Almost never practicing together, because I was just reading newspapers (laugh). Basically, Zico basically adjusted himself, practicing together for about 15 minutes, once or twice a week. I was doing it like "Natural!"

Zico loves Japanese culture - 5 minutes ago, for example, and he did not seem to be Brazilian. When unifying the moving clothes of the team with black suits, white shirts, black leather shoes, if there are players with different shirt and shoes colors, we pointed out discipline, saying "Try everyone!" , I think that I was thinking connecting everything to football.

(Continued to Episode 3)http://king-gear.com/articles/344

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