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"Kunimoto Kamoto" Soccer Japan's nation's highest scoring high scorer second episode "My job is to put points in"

Mr. Kunimoto Kamoto, who was making spikes himself during Yamashiro High School, played a big success as a youth Japanese national player and joined Waseda University Football Club. Even after that I accomplished a number of accomplishments and grew up to be a representative striker in Japan. Mr. Kamoto will get various spikes in the age of players.

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- Did you have a trainer back then?
 

Kamoto: Basically, there was a time of the Mexican Olympic games. When I got hurt, I went to the local hospital.

今は最高な状態でやってるよな。グランドが少し悪いとグランドのせいにして。昔なんて芝は四隅にしかなかったよね。芝生と言っても、ぺんぺん草が生えているような。  

When we were around, high school soccer was doing in Nishinomiya, Hyogo prefecture, there was only one grass ground and it was only there in the finals. If you wear a white uniform, dirt will not fall even if you wash it.

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- Was the uniform of Yamashiro High School white?  

Kamoto: Not white, something strange color and (laugh). 

- That's right(Lol). You entered Waseda University. 

Kamoto
: The business association went to college because it was about a little bit of football. Even if there are all-Japan championships, urban competition, business association championships, etc., after the Tokyo Olympic Games that I got at the second year of college, Mr. Kramer (Mr. Detmar · Kramer: German soccer leader: Japan football leader JSL (Japan Football League) began, big companies such as Furukawa Electric, Mitsubishi and Hitachi also played football, did not they? The JSL Yanmar I was in was weak.

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- In the university league,
4A lot of brilliant results such as the yearly consecutive scoring king were left.
 

Kamoto: That's right (laugh). My job is to put points, so I just practiced hard.

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- How was your shoes during college days? 

Kamoto: When I was in college, I was wearing Yasuda 's shoes. When I was in my 2nd year I joined the Japanese delegation for the first time before the Tokyo Olympic Games and got shoes for Adidas when I went to Europe.

At that time, only the representatives of Japan were wearing Adidas' three-line shoes, then Matsue Shinji came to relay, and Adidas entered the Japanese fitness store. At that time it was expensive to buy and I did not wear it when practicing.


After that, ASICS came out. I think the Japanese representative had received one pair of Adidas' sports shoes and spikes. I polished well and it was festival on the shrine.

Sometimes I wear spikes of Burma (Myanmar) (laugh). I liked it because it was light and easy to kick. Water buffalo leather shoes have a cusp of view point and there were only three places to pass strings. I was just fitting on my feet. I tried wetting with water before wearing it, it was soft as it is buffalo (lol). I was wearing it for a moment.

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- Do you still have that spike? 

Kamoto: Well, that's when you go to Burma (laugh).

I am wearing descentant 's umbrella shoes now. Before Adidas Japan was able to do, in the old days Descente was doing Adidas, so when retiring at the age of 40 you were wearing Adidas' shoes.
 

- It was a great success at university and I was promoted to Yanmar. 

Kamoto: It was only Yanmar who participated in JSL in Kansai. In the league it was 7th and 8th, "I thought why I am not going to such a place!" Since I went to Tokyo at university, I entered Yanmar as my senior says "Please come back here!" Everyone told me "I got some, I got it!", But I have not received a change (laugh). 

- How was the Yanmar Soccer Club? 

Kamoto: Whether it will fall to the second division league, but I got a lot of players for about three years by entering Yanmar. Nelson Yoshimura came from abroad and so suddenly it got stronger. They were not professional players in Brazil, but soccer was not good, but there was a sense. Because Sergio Echigo was doing with Corinthians it was good. 

Also, many people with strong personality came out in Tokyo Olympic Games and Mexico Olympics. Nowadays there are not many players with unique personality. No one says what the cause is.

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- What do you think of the cause? 

Kamoto: Because it does not practice individuals. You only practice as a team. That's why I say it well, I'm doing a chatterycatch carefully like a bird cage like a ball. That is play, not practice. Japan is,You are overdoing a lot of things like that.

In the past, I had to put out on a pinpoint when I said the pass. Some people built property as a worldwide representative alone. I think what Japanese players will not do to match the ball to a friend like Bekkam with a bean and pinpoint. Also, I do not do much for the scrambling of a 1: 1 ball.

- Why is it such a thing?

Kamoto: I do not understand well, for example, there are 250 high school and university staff and 300 others, so you will not kick the ball there. I can not compete one to one, I do not have a place, I think how I practice.


Japanese need to strengthen individuals, but you have not practiced for that. When I was in high school, I did practicing well because there were not 30 people in the football club. When I went to a university and there was a time when I could not get a point in the game, I was told that "Kamemoto is useless!" I was just doing shoot exercises.
 

- Could you tell me the contents of the shoot practice? 

Kamoto: Putting the ball, it is a practice of press kick. Just decide the place to kick and put the ball in a position to kick with your precise form and kick it. I have to stop first, stop and concentrate and kick at the moment with Dawn. Rather than kicking the moving ball, you should stop by traping and then kick it.

Direct kicking is difficult because it kicks the moving ball. If the ball does not stop exactly, it is useless if you kick it. If you do not know that you have to pick up yourself accurately and quickly when the ball comes, no matter how many times you kick it together. I happen to kick and not go into the goal, I have to kick after calculating it.

Continue to episode 3. 


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Kunimoto Kamoto (Kamamoto Kunishashi)
Born in Kyoto in 1944
Former football team Japan national team
Visiting Professor, Kyoto Bunkyo University

Participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games at Waseda University. University college league for four consecutive scoring kings. After graduating I joined Yanmar Diesel. 202 points in the Japanese league total. Bronze medal won at the 1968 Mexican Olympics, 7 goals. Japan national international A match 75 scores (past 1st place). International A match score 0.98 is the number one in the world. After working in retirement, he took over the manager at Yanmar Diesel Gamba Osaka. In 1995 won the House of Councilors election. From 1998 to July 2008 I will serve as Vice Chairman of the Japan Football Association. In 2005 he was elected the youngest football team in the first football Hall of Fame. In 2006, he became a visiting professor at Kyoto Bunkyo University. We have already held more than 1000 soccer classes in various parts of the country from active retirement to today, and are teaching over 500,000 children in all. Among them are numerous children such as Hidetoshi Nakada, Shunsuke Nakamura, Kawaguchi, Miyamoto, Inamoto, Daikoku, have grown to become Japanese national players later. In May 2014 received the Asahi Naka Nakagori.

Interview photograph / Hidemi Sakuma