A quick update about the first game of season.

The game in this weekend is postponed to maybe end of season after rescheduled. The reason why the game was canceled is so stupid. AFF couldn't secure any park to play by the game day.
I've never heard such a ridiculous stuff in my life. I was so disaponinted about this because I had been really looking forward to the game. But even if I critisize what they have done for us so far, I know anything doesn't change.

What I have to do is make adequate preparation for the game of next weekend, which would be our first game of the season.

Anyway, we were provided team gears, which are like team shirts, jacket, pants and bag. These items are suppose to be used when we move to a game site as a team.
My number is 15, but I think I should have chosen a better number like 7 or 10... haha.






　どうもです！！

　今週末の開幕戦についてちょっとお知らせ！！っていうか試合が延期になりました。（ガーーン。。）笑
　
　今日の練習前に監督から話があったんやけど、理由聞いてびっくり。「試合会場がない」！！んなアホな！？あるにはあるらしいが、ピッチ状態がひどいらしく、とても公平な試合になるとは思えないとうちの監督が抗議したみたい。
　楽しみにしてただけにほんま残念。

　あと、今日はチームの移動着一式が支給されました。試合に行く際、チームウェアに身を包んで行くためです。カバンなどももらいました。
　せっかくやる気満々やったのに。。。

　来週末の開幕試合に向けて気持ち切り替えていきます！！

Inner muscle training

Hello, how are you??

Do you have a routine work to do like before go to bed or after work something like that. I of cource have it and do it every single day. That's what we call 'Inner muscle training', which strengthen the core of the body done by most of top footballer in the world.
The leading player to emerge is Yuto Nagatomo who belongs to Inter Milan in serie-A.
I watched some videoes on Youtube that he had worked hard with his own training at home every single day since he became a professional soccer player. Those video clips definitely inspired me to do this like him.

As a matter of course, it's not that easy thing to keep doing everyday because there is a busy day, a tiring day or the day doesn't feel motivated in daily life. At that time, I always encourage myself in some ways to do the training.
Anyway, most important thing is to keep doing it everyday. It would turn into confident to youself and obtain a athlete figure. It also gives you another positive affect in daily training, I think.

Another important thing is not to work hard at the begining of the training. If you do so, you should be getting harder to maintain the workload, so you need to do fine-tuning it by yourself and you should know the amount which you can do. As a result, you can increase the amount gradually, if you can keep doing it.








どうもです！！

　最近トレーニングの一環で毎日続けていることがあります。それは流行りの「体幹トレーニング」。体の内側の筋肉や中心の部分（特に腹筋周り）を鍛えることで、重心の安定につながったり、ブレない体作りの為のトレーニングで、まぁ簡単にいうと筋トレですね。
　毎日欠かさず、このトレーニングに３０～４０分ほどかけてやってます。練習がある日は、終わった後や始まる前にやりますし、休みの日もシャワー浴びる前にやります。

　もちろん、毎回毎回体を追い込むのはきついけど、毎日続けるのが重要やと思う。もう続けて１か月ほど経ちますが、練習がきつい日、忙しい日、気分が乗らない日なんかもあるけど、自分に問いかけて続けてます。
　やっぱり続けていると体つきも変わってくるし、その変化がまた自分にモチベーションを与えてくれる。

　大事なのは、始めた直後に追い込みすぎないこと。そうするとそれが毎日の最低ノルマになってしまうから続けるのが難しくなる。そこは自分で調整して、最初は続けられる量を確実にこなす。時間が経てば鍛えられて、回数も序々に増やしていける。

　通常の練習でも、「練習外で自分は毎日これだけやってるんだ」という自信がつくし、それが良いプレーにつながる。毎日やることで色んなプラス要素が生まれるんじゃないかと最近実感してます。

　今週いよいよ冬のシーズン開幕！！やるしかないです！！！

　ニュージーランドでサッカーしたい方へ

BBQ party

Hi, all!!

I've frequently posted some articles on this blog last couple weeks. Thats the proof that I'm so bored every night.

Anyway, I had a training session as a team this morning for 2 hours. Actually it wasn't that hard for me because we had a training match the day before yesterday, so today was like a recovery session from it.
Then we went back home once, and got together again at one of my teammate's house around lunch time.

As soon as I got there, I realized everybody were tring to go out somewhere in rain. I couldn't expect where they were going to and also I couldn't believe that we would go outside in rain.
Somehow it seemed like that we were suppose to play cricket all together in a park ever if it's rain.
To be honest, I was really upset at that time because I had never played cricket before. Of course we played baseball many time with my friends when I was small, but we even never see that someone play cricket in Japan.
We don't have the culture to play it.

However, cricket is similar to baseball a bit, so the much time I got, the much I could understand what's cricket like. But it was still difficult to play at their level because they get use to play it like baseball I play normally. Especially, it was so difficult to hit a ball properly with bat, which shape like battledore(Japanese Hagoita) used in a game played at the beginning of the new year in Japan. It consists of a board with a rectangular handle.

Anyway, it was so fun. After that, we had a BBQ party together with heaps of meats, sausages and a bit vegetables. This is a newzealand style!!I love it!!!

I just gorged oneself to repletion on delicious viands.





　

最近ブログの更新頻度がやばい。それだけ夜は暇だということでしょう。笑

　さてさて、今日も疲れた一日でした。

　朝から練習があり、その後一度解散して昼過ぎに再びキャプテンの家に集まってクリケットというイギリス式野球のスポーツをみなでやって、最後はニュージーランド式バーベキューをして、たらふく肉がっついて帰りました。笑

　いやぁ、クリケットなんか始めてやったから焦った。もうミスしないように空気読むことだけ考えてたね。笑　ルールなんかまずほとんど知らんし、テレビでしか見たことなかったからまぁ大変。（詳しいことはWikiかなんかで調べてください）
　とりあえず、ボールを野球みたいに羽子板みたいなバットで打つんやけど、全然あたらん！！舐めてました。。。しかも小雨降りしきる中やったから少々だるかったね。笑

　しかし、みなほとんど２０代やのに、全力でクリケット楽しんでた。水浸しの芝の上を私服でスライディングしたり、おもっきりバット振ってスベって転んだり、みなびしょびしょ。けど、こんな雰囲気ええよなぁと俯瞰して見てました。なかなか日本で自分の年代が公園に集まって泥んこなられへんよなぁ、なんて思いながら。
　最後はＢＢＱ！！大量の肉とちょっとのサラダ！！これぞ欧米式！！笑　腹減りまくってたから食いまくったった。

　笑いあり、気疲れありの激動の一日でした！チャンチャン。

vs Waitakere United

Hi, everybody.

I've just got home from game tonight, which took on one of the best team in NZ, Waitakere FC, who is a regular team for Club World Cup called Toyota Cup as an Oceanian champion.
They are still in the season facing play-off at the moment, and the season in our side hasn't started yet, but it's just around the corner.

Anyway, we got a chance to play seriously with this great team tonight fortunately because we are also one of the best team in the league, so they gave us a offer to play as a training match during season to turn up their side.
We were also look forward to playing with them to measure how much can we play as usual.

I came on the pitch at the begining of second half as a mid-fielder. I was honestly nervous before came on, but I think I could play with confident.
Actually we were winning by 3-0 until 60mins's gone, which means that we played excellent, we were obviously dominating the game, but they recouped three goals straight away due to a decrease of movement, means facing fitness problem.
As a result, we got a draw wih them by 3-3. It must result from fitness and lack of communication.
personally, I got some challenges from the game, which is possitive things for me.
Each players in Waitakere side was pretty fast and so quick, especially acceleration between first five meters were formidable. Once I made a wrong decision on the park, I couldn't catch them.

But I was really happy to play with them and that was so fun.

I had an enjoyable game after a long term.






　どうもです。

　今さっき練習試合から帰宅したとこです。相手は今シーズンのＮＺ１部リーグ覇者の「ワイタケレUNITED」！！ＮＺで常に１・２を争う強豪で、トヨタカップ（オセアニア代表）の常連です。向こうはシーズン中（プレーオフ）、こっちはシーズン開幕直前（プレシーズン）の中で練習試合が組まれました。
　
　自分は、後半開始してすぐＭＦとしてプレー。結果からいうと３－３のドローでした。実は自分のチームも結構いいチームらしいのですが、まさかここまで接戦になるとは思わなかったです。笑

　後半途中まで３－０で勝ってましたからね。しかもメンバーもほぼベストやったらしいのでチームとして自信になったのではないかなと。最後は向こうの意地とスーパーゴールなどで自力を発揮された感はありましたが、自分としてもまた一味違うレベルのチームとやれたのは良い経験でした。
　やっぱり今までやってきたチームとはスピード・判断・一瞬のキレが違いましたね。　一歩遅れるともう向こうは５ｍ先ですから。笑　とりあえず早い！！

　まだ加入して２週間ほどですし、まだまだチームとして戦術面や仲間の特徴・連係面でも課題はありましたし、何より試合勘を試合中に必死に取り戻そうとしてました。

　守備面での遅れ、１対１での対応など、あっさり抜かれる場面もあったし、取れる場面を取りきれなかったり、プレーの判断も遅かったりと課題は山ほどありますが、この相手だからこそ見つかったんだと思います。

　チーム内のポジション争いは厳しいですが、本当に良いチームメートがここにはたくさんいるので、そこで信頼を得れるようにやっていくしかないです。

　いやぁ、ひさびさに試合を楽しめました。

　ニュージーランドでサッカーしてみたい方はこちら　→　ＮＺサッカー

Training camp 1

Hello, how are you??

Recently, I've got some training sessions with a tewm in Auckland, and I should sign up for the team within next week, I reckon, but nobody knows what's happening to me and the club until get signed, so I need to play as hard as possible to show a good performance.

By the way, we had a kind of training camp last 3days for the up-coming season, 2nd April. Various sessions with all teammates was tightly scheduled in the camp and we got a instruction for the camp like what's the goal of the camp on the first day, and we also had a lecture of mantal management and control before and after game with a mental therapist organized by the team.
I thought that was very impressive lecture for me because I sometimes struggle that keep concentrating on the game with thinking of other things. Hopefully, I will be better about it after this.

Meanwhile, we had time to discuss like what is the main goal for the team in this season and what do we need to keep doing on the park for the goal set as a group and we exchanged each opinions at the end of the session to sum it up.
And then we ate dinner all together and went home.

On second day, surprisingly we had three training sessions in a day. To be honest, I've never had such a experience before, so I was so nervous the day before.
However, I commited a big problem in the morning. we had to be there no later than 8am, but unfortunately I woke up so later than I had to. When I realized it in the morning, I thought I was still in dream, at least I tried to think about it, but of course it wasn't...
I just shoot off into taxi to the club house and I tantatively jumped in the training because I expected the coach must be mad at me, he didn't blame me that much.
Anyway, I was being totally upset until saw coach.

And we had breakfase together and another lecture on nutrition and hydration for footballer with a expert who had a year contract last year with Chealsea, which is in English Premier league. I don't know who could organize such a great person for this small club, but I was so lucky to see him.
In his lecture, I was trying to pick up his words and write it down on note as many as I can, and I have to make something of the knowledge I got for soccer. I'm sure I could do it.

And we got the second training and then had lunch together.

To be continued at next time.






どうもです！！

　サッカーの方ですが、徐々にチームが決まりつつあり、来週にはサインできると思います。その時にまた詳しくチームについては書きますが、今回はこの週末（金土日）３日間でチームとしてトレーニングキャンプを行いました。
　といっても泊まりではなかったです。理由は簡単、お金がないから。笑

　けど内容は結構豪華でした。まず金曜日は夜だけ集まってキャンプについての説明、チームとして今後どういうサッカーをしていくのかを選手、監督、ゲストできてれていたスポーツメンタルセラピストの講義を交え、約２時間に渡って議論。そして軽い軽食を食べて解散。

　２日目はまさかの３部練！！１日目に配布された予定表には午前・午後の２部練のハズが、みんなめっさだるそうでしたね。笑

　しかし、ここでトラブル発生！！

　集合は朝８時にクラブハウスだったんですが、なんとガッツリ寝坊した！！！起きたらすでに１０分前で、慌ててタクシー拾って向かいました。結局３０分遅れて恐る恐る行ったけど、監督もそこまで怒ってなかったのでよかったです。。しかし焦った。

　朝は軽く練習して皆で朝食を取り、その後チェルシーで１年間契約してた栄養管理士の方を招いて、スポーツ選手としての栄養面や試合までの食事の取り方・水分補給の重要性などを聞かせてもらった。個人的にはすごく自分のためになるものやったし、できるだけメモを取って聞かせてもらいました。

　そしてまた練習して皆で昼食。

　これで終わりかと思いきや、続きは次回に。笑

St Patrick's Day

Hi, all!!

Today, one of the most recognized public holiday in Ireland, it's named after St Patrick passed away on 17th of March, and has gradually become a celebration of Irish culture in general.

Are you thinking why did I pick up about this day in spite of I'm in Newzaland??
Because in Newzealand, there are many immigrants who has a background of Ireland. Recently, migrants from Ireland might be gradually less than before, but they have already come here since last generation, so everybody has an Irish culture comes together in city on this day, wearing a green attire, which means that is like traditional color for Irish people.

In fact, I was in city with my Irish friend got to meet in Auckland through one of my another friend.
He was of course wearing a green shirts and it's known exactly why, but he put a green tie on the green shirts. That was so unique, haha

And he used to be in Kumamoto, where is one of a countryside of Kyusyu in Japan as a English teacher and was also involved in one of the English educational project in Japanese high school for a couple years.
So he was so frank and friendly on me.

I had really fun and enjoyable time with him. I was treated on dinner as well!! Thank you so much today, Brendan!!





こんな時に恐縮ですが、普通のブログに戻さしてもらいます。

　今日は、St Patrick's dayというアイルランドの祝日。アイルランドにキリスト教を広めた聖人パトリックの命日。
　なぜアイルランドの祝日？と思う方も多いはず。というのも、ここＮＺでも多くのアイルランドからの先代からの移民が過ごしており、アイルランドを背景に持つＮＺ人が多いのです。
　というのも、この国では正式な祝日では当然ありませんが、町中がアイルランドの象徴色である「緑」の服を身につけて、皆でお酒を飲み合うのがここＮＺでもお決まりの行事になっているそうです。

　実は、さっきまで知人の友人であるオークランドに住むアイルランド人と一緒に飲んでいました。笑

　彼はもう立派なおじさん？なんですが、全身緑の服で固め、なぜかＴシャツの上から緑のネクタイをしてました。笑

　彼は以前熊本に数年住んでいて、大変親日家の気さくな人で楽しかったです。

　タイレストランで食事をし、その後はアイリッシュバーへ。すべてご馳走になり、至れり尽くせりの一日。いいリラックスになりました。さぁまたサッカー！サッカー！！


　

An unprecedented Earthquake in Japan

As you know, The most terrible earthquake ever hit Japan 2 days ago, and the damage is still expanding as time goes on, unleashing a 10 metre high tsunami and leaving hundreds dead and thousands missing.

And now Japan is facing a nuclear emergency as cooling systems damaged by the quake failed at two nuclear reactors.

I myself was running on a treadmill in a gym when I was informed about the disaster. I couldn't actually believe what I saw from the news on TV which was front of me. The TV screen was switched suddenly to the breaking news which informed me what's happening now in Japan. The head line of the news I watched was 'An 8.9 magnitude quake hit Japan'.
I think no one can believe like this if you're in oversea.

Fortunately, all my friends and families are fine, but I have nothing to do for this event at the moment. There is nothing I can do except pray that everybody can survive and be safe as many people as possible.




　

　世紀の大地震から３日が経ち、被害は広まるばかりです。

　自分が、この報道を聞いた時、ちょうどジムで走っていた時でした。ランニングマシーンの前のテレビが突然切り替わり、速報で日本を大地震が襲ったという見出しで自分の目に飛び込んできました。最初は全く信じられず、どこか他人事のような自分がいて走り続けていましたが、テレビに映る「Earthquake hit Japan」の文字。

　試しに日本の実家に電話しましたが回線が混み合っていたせいか繋がらず、「おい、おい、嘘やろ」と独り言をつぶやいている自分に気づき、ようやく走るのをやめてテレビに釘付けになりました。

　幸いにも、自分の家族・友人はみな無事でしたが、インターネットで情報を更新する度に被害者の数は増え続け、どこか海外にいるせいかまだ実感があまり湧いてない自分に罪悪感を感じてしまいます。

　こんな遠いＮＺにいる自分が何かできることは、ただただ被害が最小限に食い止められ、一日でも早く被害者の方々が平穏な生活を取り戻せるのを祈るだけです。

　

Worst team ever.

Hi, how's going??

I have heaps of things to do recently. I'll write on it next time.

At first, the ASB premiership season just ended and we sat on bottom of the table at last unfortunately. What is worse, we collected the unwanted record of lowest points total for a season, which means we got only 4 points in 14 games. In addition, top team got 36 points through the whole season.
It was the most disastrous season I've ever got and most disappointing season as well because I crossed the big ocean and arrived at a small town to play in last November.

When I signed for the team, I thought I would get a opportunity to play soon, but that did never happen until season's gone. I kept asking mysef over and over that why doesn't the coach let me play such a long time despite he allowed me to sign for the team, why do I need to do now for the team, how can I show him that I'm really motivated and still willing to play for the team etc...

Finally, the message was lost on him.

He always made same squad and used his favorite players, and he ended up produce the worst record in the league.
After every matches, he is suppose be taken an inteview from media side and it's put up on a local newspaper on the day after the match, and he alway says 'we could have - should have won the game, I can't fault the players efforts, they gave everything or we had many chances in the whole game and I thought we were worth a draw today like these.

Critical of the manner in which his side lost goals, Sova nevertheless paid tribute to his team's commitment. This is ridiculous.

But I have to think of what I did for the team, I don't think I could maintain a good condition on the pitch anytime. I agree with that, and I have to be a lot better for an upcoming season.

I'll still try playing to be a professional player!!










　どうもです。

　最近いろんなことが目まぐるしく起きています。

　まずは、今シーズンＮＺ１部リーグが無事終わりました。最後は引き分けという結果でしたが、最終順位は最下位。しかもシーズン通して勝ち点が「４」のみというリーグワーストを更新しての閉幕。最悪ですね。
　自分は、シーズン途中加入で、トライアウトの末に外国人枠として入団したにもかかわらず、なかなか試合に使ってもらえず、次第にチームメートの連係、コミュニケーションの部分でも悪くなっていき、自分のプレーにも精彩を欠いている部分は正直ありました。

　なぜ使われないのか？？試合前日の戦術練習でもスタメン組としてずっとプレーしていた筈なのに試合のスタメンには自分の名前がない。途中からでも出れればそこでアピールしてって感じだったけど、それもない。ただベンチに座るのみ。どうして？？こんな事の繰り返しで、一体どうすれば試合にでれるの？と自問自答の日々でした。
　おまけに試合は敗戦続き、チームには悪いけど「今週も負けたし来週こそは！！」と奮起しても試合にでるメンバーは変わらず、そして負ける。

　試合翌日の新聞に監督の試合のコメントが載るんですが、それも常にポジティブな感想ばかり。本当に「？」なチームでした。
　
　監督を批判するのは簡単だし、それを自分の慰めにするのは容易い。けど、やっぱり自分にも非はあったはずだし、自分の何か気に入らなかったから使ってもらえなかったんだと思う。

　シーズン終盤はメンバーが結構抜けて、自分のモチベーションにも影響が出てたし、まだまだだなぁと思った。やることはたくさんあるし、課題も見つかったのをプラスに次は冬のリーグがやってきます。

　チームが正式に決まればまたご報告します！！
　

Curry is the best home cuisine.

I think this article really doesn't matter to you guys, but this is really important routine in my daily life. Curry is what I'm talking about.

Recently, it's too much of a bother to cook dinner myself, so I depend totally on curry everyday. In last 10days, I made curry three times. I always feel like tasting curry at any moment even when I wake up every moning and feel a burp coming... sorry.

Anyway curry is so nutritious and has a low calorie count. Moreover it's really simple to make it that can maintain a high nutritional value for me. Obviously, curry is a must item in my life now and I never get tired of it even if I had it 10day in a row.

I really love it.

I have to appreciate a person who invented how to make curry for the first time in the world.


P.S. I'll update with a better article next time...




どうでもいい更新記事をここで一つ。

　最近飯を作るのがめんどくさくて、簡単でしかも栄養もしっかり取れるカレーばっかり作ってます。
　ほんまに便利なものをインド人は発明したもんで、さらにそれを日本人は日本風にアレンジしてしまうとは。あっぱれです。笑

　ここ１０日くらいでもう３回くらい作りました。その間一日だけかな、カレー食べなかったのは。ほんま毎日食べても飽きない「カレー」。

　一人暮らししてるみなさん、一度はカレーに頼ったことあるんじゃないですか？？


　どうでもいいことですが、あまりにカレーを食べてるので感謝の意味を込めて書きたくなりました。

　お許しください。笑