1BSPORTS 1B Sports June 11th news Today is one year away from the opening of the 2026 World Cup. Japanese coach Mori Yoichi also attended the “Annual Chinese Characters” event held at the Kyoto Hanjian Chinese Character Museum on the same day, and displayed the Chinese characters representing their determination: “and”.
Although Mori Boichi seemed very relaxed during the event, he said “a little nervous” when he picked up a brush to write the Chinese characters of the year. He wrote the word “and” carefully. Although his name “Yi” is also a candidate, he finally chose “Harm” and explained: “Our goal is to win the World Cup, and we also hope to express and export Japanese culture and values through this. “Harm” means that we stand on the stage of the World Cup with Yamato soul. In terms of team building, we pursue the concept of “Harm is the most important”. Every player is independent, but can be united and ‘harmonious but different’.”
Since 1995, “Chinese Character of the Year” has been in Japan for 30 years. In 1997, when the Japanese team qualified for the World Cup for the first time, the word “inverted” was rated as the Japanese Chinese character of the year that year. In order to commemorate the eighth consecutive World Cup participation, the Japanese Football Association and the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Association launched a cooperative project of the “full-force football project”. From June 14, the “blue-ing” in Tokyo’s JFA Football Culture Creation Center will display a large book copy of the “inverted” character.
There is a whole year left before the opening of the 2026 World Cup. The Japanese team will have the following schedule in the next year: in July, a team mainly composed of young players in the J League will participate in the East Asian Cup in South Korea; in September, the team will go to the United States to participate in two warm-up matches, with opponents being the United States and Mexico; in October and November, several high-quality warm-up matches will be held at home.
After defeating Indonesia 6-0 in the final match of the World Cup 18, Moribashi said: “Of course, we need to improve comprehensively, especially the forward’s scoring ability, and we need to find more scoring points on the offensive end.”
Although the three-guard formation is used in the World Cup qualifiers, Moribashi said he hopes to try more four-guard formations in future games. “I hope I can have a chance to try the four-guard formation. I have used this formation before, but I want to try it again in actual combat. If we want to adopt the four-guard formation, we need a full-back with strong propulsion.