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Japan has made another large recruitment to approach the world's strongest. It plans to plant European DNA for future development.
Japan's J-League will start a project to invite overseas leaders on its official website on the 1st. Agreed to sign Roger Schmidt as Global Football Advisor'
The Japanese national team, led by coach Hajime Moriyasu, did not hide its challenge to win the title from the upcoming 2026 World Cup in North Korea and the U.S. It was the confidence that he quickly passed the Asian qualifiers and became the first in the world to confirm his advance to the North American World Cup except for the host country.
However, Japan's confidence was dampened when it met the wall of the world stage in September. He faced a shocking result of one draw and one loss due to his helpless performance against the United States and Mexico. In both games, the performance was not satisfactory. For the first time in two years, I have faced what I lack in the national team in a showdown with a continent other than an Asian country. Ace's absence was huge to aim for the top of the world. Unlike South Korea, Japan had neither Son Heung-min nor Kim Min-jae, who would serve as a troubleshooter in the front, nor Kim Min-jae, who would block the opponent's ace from the back.
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In the end, Japan even went ahead with a grand plan of a project to invite overseas leaders to raise the competitiveness of its league and raise superior talents to reach a high level. That's the beginning of the game, coach Schmidt.
Schmidt, who slowly gained leadership experience on the German stage and steadily took over the European stage, is a coach who has coached Son Heung-min at Leverkusen in the past and Kim Min-jae at Beijing Guoan. He recently experienced Benfica through Eindhoven, and was replaced by Benfica in 2024 and has yet to take on a new managerial position. Now Schmidt plans to serve as J-League advisor. Since he has also coached Asia's best talents such as Son Heung-min and Kim Min-jae, he is expected to deliver more positive opinions to the J-League.
Coach Schmidt will help the J-League Academy select process in the future, share team guidance and methods, conduct a session program to inject world-standard soccer for leaders of J-League clubs through special programs for leaders and SD, and deliver feedback through visits to matches by league or J-League clubs.
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Schmidt said "I am extremely honored to be inaugurated as J-League Global Football Advisors. In July this year, we met in Nonomura and Düsseldorf in real life and decided to participate in this ambitious project because there was a lot of sympathy with what the J-League was aiming for and its future growth strategy. I would like to contribute to the strengthening and development of J-League and Japanese soccer during this period through sessions with sports directors or leaders of each club in charge of the future, exchanges, and guidance of future youth generations. I hope that I can make use of my ideas, experiences, and soccer philosophy in the realization of the J-League that fights around the world"He expressed his feelings about the contract.
The J-League is preparing to take a leap forward by raising Asian players and using a coach who has played on the Asian stage as an advisor. Attention is also focusing on how the appointment of Schmidt will affect the J-League.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
