Number 1091 issue on sale now (https://number.bunshun.jp/articles/-/860571) “Captain theory in adversity: Laws of the Japanese national soccer team leader”. The article we will discuss this time is “Aiming to become a magician of words” (https://number.bunshun.jp/premier/articles/17341), which is an interview with Maya Yoshida, former captain of the Japanese national team. What did Yoshida, who served as the captain of the Japan national team, keep in mind as he led his team from the time after the Russia World Cup until the 2022 Qatar World Cup, when they advanced to the last 16? We asked Nobuaki Matsumoto, a member of the editorial department who has covered Yoshida for many years and also wrote this article, about the story behind the interview. I heard a lot of stories about the “administrative work” of the national team captain, which is mentioned in the article, and I made a series of surprising discoveries, such as the wide variety of jobs unique to the 2020s that seem to require information processing ability… did. It is no wonder that Yoshida still serves as the president of the Japan Professional Football Players Association. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

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