prince's green

Chapter 16 Tokyo FC
Ringer is complaining about his annual salary - 180 million yen, which is just over 10 in RMB.The annual salary is just over 10 yuan, which is only 1 yuan when converted into a monthly salary.Can you believe that the monthly salary of playing football is less than 1?But in Japan, this is the status quo. No wonder young players with a little bit of ability want to go to Europe and play as a substitute for any team in the five major leagues. Only veterans can get it.

Fortunately, Ringer doesn't care about these, at least for now he is not qualified to care about them.

The Spring Festival in 2012 was very early, on January 1.Japan also has the tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, the J-League will start training and preparing for the game. The day when Tokyo FC gathers is February 23.

As a newcomer, Ringer came to Chofu early, so he had to familiarize himself with the situation first.As a suburb of Tokyo, Chofu is 20 kilometers away from downtown Tokyo. Ringer doesn't own a car, so it's impossible for him to live in the city again.He lives next to the club, a bachelor apartment arranged by the club.

On February 2st, the day of Tokyo FC's 1 season training camp, and also the media meeting for the new season, Ringer came to the club early.

When he came to the locker room, as a newcomer, Ringer had to go over to greet them one by one.

"Captain Tokunaga, hello."

"Mori-san, please take care of me."

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According to what he learned, Linge greeted each other one by one. The so-called courtesy is not surprising, especially in Japan.

Tokyo FC has changed a lot this season. Last season, the club accidentally won the Emperor's Cup. The team's captain, defense core, and Japanese international Yasuyuki Konno contributed a lot. However, during the transfer period, Yasuyuki Konno was poached by the wealthy Gamba Osaka. up.

However, after qualifying for the AFC Champions League, the club has also slightly increased its investment. The team has changed many players, and there have been large-scale changes in the front, middle and back courts.For Ringer, his main competitors are in the midfield.

The core of Tokyo FC's striker last season was the team's foreign aid, Brazilian center Lucas.Lucas is a 32-year-old Brazilian veteran. He moved to Ligue 2000 Rennes for 2100 million euros in [-], but he was not successful in Europe, and then he came to Japan to play.

Lucas first played for Tokyo FC for more than 3 years. Although he did not achieve much, he became famous and won the nickname Ronaldo in the J-League. After that, he switched back to the J-League giant Gamba Osaka.During the three years in Gamba Osaka, Lucas helped Gamba Osaka win a league championship, two cup championships and an AFC championship as the main forward. Boss, just left Gamba, Tokyo FC invited him back after the unexpected relegation. He lived up to expectations and helped the team to upgrade successfully last season.

On the front line, Tokyo FC also introduced forward Chima Watanabe from the Yokohama Mariners in the new season.Watanabe Chima is a Japanese international. He represented the Japanese team in the Asian Cup for 11 years and won the championship with the team.Although Japan won the championship that year, Watanabe mostly sat on the bench, but being selected for the country to participate in international competitions has proved his strength.

Lucas is a typical high center forward, who can be used as a fulcrum in the penalty area, and can also grab points to attack the goal. He is not in the same style as Ringer. Chima Watanabe is Ringer's competitor.Watanabe is also a college student player. He graduated from Waseda University. He is characterized by fast speed and a keen sense of smell in front of the goal. This overlaps with Ringer to a certain extent. Tokyo FC signed Ringer. Maybe it is for Watanabe It means to be a substitute.

Of course, there are Hirayama Shota and Brazilian Cesar on the striker bench of Tokyo FC. Maybe Ringer's current status in the head coach's heart is not as good as these two.

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On the first day of the new season, no training was arranged at all, and the more important thing on the first day was the media meeting.Head coach Bobovich and club president Kenji Akune looked forward to the new season in front of the media, and then the players gathered for the media to take pictures, but Ringer was really an insignificant little person, only when the team took photos with new players and the whole team His figure appeared in the group photo, but at other times he could only look at it.

However, Ringer was not idle either. He had been standing on the sidelines and observing. The current captain of the team is the 28-year-old right back Yuhei Tokunaga. Yasuyuki Konno went to Gamba Osaka. The most authoritative person in the locker room is the current vice-captain Masato Morishi. Morishu was Yasuyuki Konno's central defender partner last season. Now he is the team's deputy. It seems that he will be the team's new defense core in the new season.

There is also the head coach of the team, Ranko Bobovich, he should be a head coach that the media likes, because he seems to like to talk a lot, and he kept talking in front of the media today.

"The team's goal for the new season is to win every game"

"The guaranteed goal of the AFC Champions League is the top [-]"

"The domestic league must at least qualify for the AFC Champions League next year."

Bobovic was super confident, but the club president Kenji Akune turned black.

It is not without reason that Tokyo FC has participated in the J-League for many years, but now it is the first time to participate in the AFC Champions League.

The shares of the Tokyo FC club are scattered. Tokyo Gas, Tokyo Electric Power and Tokyo TV are all club shareholders, but the largest shareholder is Tokyo Gas, so Tokyo FC is also called Tokyo Gas in Japan, which is quite down-to-earth.

Tokyo Gas is not a big company. Naturally, it is impossible to spend too much money to support the club's operations, so the team has long been in the middle of the J-League.

Last season's accidental qualification for the AFC Champions League, Tokyo Gas decided to bleed heavily and spent 1 million yen (about 600 million RMB) to reinforce the lineup. The average level of the league teams is slightly higher, and Tokyo FC is still newly promoted, and has been poached away from the core of the defense, so no one is optimistic about Tokyo FC's first trip to the AFC Champions League.

The famous Japanese sports magazine "Nikkan Sports" said: Tokyo FC needs to be prepared at any time. Once the league situation arises, it will immediately give up the AFC Champions League and come back to relegation. If it encounters relegation again, it may cause a devastating blow to the team. A relegation situation is also possible.

Now that the Serbs are talking nonsense there, Akune has predicted that Tokyo FC will definitely be the object of ridicule in tomorrow's newspaper.

Sure enough, the media reported on the Tokyo FC media meeting the next day. Bobovich successfully "started" his reputation, and there was constant ridicule on the Japanese Internet.

"The round of [-]? The Gas team should be very happy if they weren't at the bottom of the group."

"I thought Tokyo hired Guardiola or Mourinho as the head coach."

"I hope not to create the biggest score (lose) of the Japanese team in the AFC Champions League"

"Konno (Taiyuki) was poached by Gamba. I think it is better to set the goal as relegation."

"The surname Bobovich reminds me of the head coach of the NBA Spurs, but judging from yesterday's performance, this guy may be the first head coach to be fired in the J-League, and the Gas team may also be the first in the new season." A team starting to avoid relegation."

But the Tokyo players can't see this for the time being, because they went to Kagoshima for training the next day, where the preparations for the new season will start.

(End of this chapter)