Japanese “Soccer Boy” Football Prodigy, Chinese Reactions

The following video of a “Japanese 2nd grade football [soccer] child prodigy” on Chinese video sharing website Youku has received 450k views and 11k upvotes and has been circulating on popular Chinese social network RenRen:

A copy on YouTube:

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Comments from Youku:

I。Can:

If China had a few more children like this, there would be hope for our national football [team/sport].

540555579:

Too individual/selfish, the other kids are just on on the side watching, haha, but he definitely has a future/potential.

森光岚:

Of course train individual technique/skill when small, and then later after their technique/skill is developed, teach teamwork.

b44qqq:

freaking awesome

牛B的Loong:

The Chinese national team is still in the bullshitting stage~ The [Chinese] football association is still in the dreaming stage~ [so] even if China had children like this, they wouldn’t have anywhere to go~ Japan says they want to earn a World Cup by 2050, and whether they can or not remains to be seen, but Japan’s football is indeed making progress, sigh~ So tragic~

嘘蕊:

If he were a Chinese child, he could be the team captain for the Chinese national football team…

注册须知:

This must be the legendary Tsubasa Oozora~~

八歧123:

I don’t see him passing the ball at all, and to be good at football one must first know that football is a 11 person game/sport…
But if its just kids playing around then it doesn’t matter/isn’t a big deal…

厌世的阿哥:

Wow fuck, this niubi.

炫烨158:

This child’s skills would be top level even in Brazil.

人一样的东:

This child is truly a prodigy! Train well and in the future he will definitely be a superstar! Why doesn’t China have anyone like this!?!?!?!?!?!?!

天使也悲哀: (responding to above)

In China, a child this age would be on the path of going to school to learn a lot of knowledge that will never be used in the future…

輪涅:

The Heavenly Kingdom system: Brat, you don’t study and instead spend all your time kicking a ball, if you keep playing I’m going to break your legs…

罪恶鱼头:

In China, children are taught from when they are young that studying/education is the most important, otherwise they won’t have anything to eat [can’t make a living] in the future. This kind of thinking has been going on for 5000 years.

linquanhan:

This is worth commenting on. His daddy I imagine is a football player, or close to a football player. Japan has retained the Chinese tradition, where the father trains his child from youth to be his successor [take over the father’s profession]. No matter what the profession is, even if it is butchering pigs, making wine/brewing beer, making sushi, every trade has its master, desiring the following generation to become the top of the field, so in terms of technique/skill, they will intensively study, becoming better and better, unlike us, who will change fields/professions the moment we think there’s no money to be made in what our ancestors’ were good at, when in reality good things will always be good no matter after how many years have passed. What doesn’t make money now will make money in the future. We are too short-sighted. Everyone think about it.

菲菲熊:

I won’t talk about anything else, but seeing a populous island country like Japan still having enough football fields for children to play on, I as someone in the Heavenly Kingdom express a lot of envy!!!

小巍坏坏:

Fake, that’s obviously a robot.

苹果CEO:

When I think of our national football team, I run out of adjectives. Under the current system, I bet even in a 100 years we won’t be able to beat the little devils [Japanese].

易拉罐88:

In China, his mother would’ve started yelling long ago, “All day all you know how to do is play football. Can football feed you? [If you continue like this] you won’t get into university, and be useless. Go and do your homework!

renzeng008: (responding to above)

Truth!

丁克阿杰:

Fuck, what is this kid’s name!?

小新0707:

His poor teammates.

天z祤:

In China, your mother would say to you, “Is playing football going to feed you? Only getting into university is of any use.” Child, you’re lucky you weren’t born in China!

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