I am still concerned how to manage players like Ishige (and Nagasawa) who get bodily pushed off the ball shoulder to shoulder. No amount of conditioning makes up for bulk. Can this be remedied with different ball control, using greater nimbleness of a smaller frame as an advantage.
This is not so much a Japanese problem as a problem of "average size of player in the national league". Sakai is built like a tank and is not pushed off by anybody easily. Yet he is quite fast on his feet, and commands the field well for A-FC.
This is not so much a Japanese problem as a problem of "average size of player in the national league". Sakai is built like a tank and is not pushed off by anybody easily. Yet he is quite fast on his feet, and commands the field well for A-FC.