Back to the top of the world! Interview with ALEG-Re, a freestyle football team trying to regain the throne vol.3
Freestyle football, a competition that attracts viewers with ball performance that incorporates dance elements etc., while based on football lifting technology. The Japanese have had many results in the world in this competition. A freestyle football team Aleg-Re (Areg), consisting of YU-J (Yuzy, left), YOSSHI (Yoshi, Chuo) and i-zu (Iz, right), is one of a group that has made its history. It is the world's number one in the world routine of SuperBall's Double Routine (performance with a pair) at the 2015 World Congress, which has reached the top in Japan. And this year, in order to take over the world seat again, challenge the stage of SuperBall again. The event will be held from August 21st to 26th, and will be held with 55 pairs of freestylers from around the world gathered at the venue, the Czech Republic.
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-世間一般におけるフリースタイルフットボールの広がりをどの程度感じていますか。
YU-J: I think that it was pretty well known when compared with when we started, but it is still a lot more. Because you know someone who does not know, "Do you know freestyle football?"
-I think that the affinity with other genres is also a high competition, but please tell me if there is a field you would like to collaborate with.
YOSSHI: I'd like to do anything and do it. As you go through music, it is often like breakbeats used for dancing, but I'd like to do something like piano alone, not just for songs that such ordinary people tend to rise tension. I still have curiosity in many places.
-What if you were not a freestyle footballer?
i-to: My father was doing cooking related work of French cuisine, and I also wanted to do it, so the university went to French language department, so I think he was a cook.
YU-J: I think I worked normally and I was married at this time. I think that there were children as soon as possible.
YOSSHI: I am traveling by back pack. Japan has done a little, but because he is active in the team, I can not move abroad alone. I would like to go to India, Laos or Asia.
-Do you play soccer or futsal?
i-to: I will do it. I will go if I also called futsal.
YU-J: I am not good because I am not good. Because football and futsal are not good at bad, it does not go from the beginning!
YOSSHI: I do not do it from too much trouble (lol) My muscles to use are too different, it will be a painful muscle pain the next day. That makes it difficult for performance that is our main job, so there are things that you can not do even if you want to do it.
-I do not usually say it, but what do you think about each other?
i-to: Everyone does not interfere in a good sense at my own pace. I can do for myself. Of course I usually drink it at launch. 2人の特にパフォーマンスだったり、練習だったり、その他に時間の使い方だったり、フリースタイルフットボールに取り組み姿勢の部分について、尊敬しています。
YOSSHI: YU - J is a hard worker, i - zu is a person who applies brakes in a good way or a bad way.
-Please tell us your future goals at the end.
YOSSHI: To earn as much as you do not work (laugh) So that you can go on a trip with a backpack as it is. I think that we will bring performance tools as we go on a real trip.
As a team I am a world champion, but since it comes out every year, I want to be beyond that title.
YOSSHI、YU-J、i-zu、ALEG-Reという固有名詞になるために、自分たちの魅力を発信していくきっかけの1つとして世界チャンピオンを獲る。そうすれば目に付く機会も増え、取り上げてもらえるようになりますよね。だから世界チャンピオンになることが目標なわけではないんです。
YU-J: I'd like to be able to feed my family with freestyle football alone or to earn more.
i-to: The goal of the team is to perform in various places and I want many people to enjoy it. Personally I would like to make a facility for collecting street someday. There is a glass-lined restaurant, and it seems that there are environments where various street type sports can be done and seen around it.
I think that if I did not meet football and freestyle football I would have been a very bad person.
I would like to build such an environment, see ourselves, eliminate the scary image or scary image, and increase the places where street people are cool as a human being. Completion
ALEG-Re (Aleg) / freestyle football