Moments after Chiben Wakayama beat Kendai Takasaki 4–3 to claim their fourth summer Koshien title — and first in five years — Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund posted a congratulatory message on social media, setting off a buzz in 5ch’s live-thread community.
Why would a soccer club react to a high school baseball final? Theories flew across the thread, from a shared tiger-stripe uniform connection and rumors of past exchanges between the two clubs, to suspicions that the whole thing was staged.
The final of the 108th National High School Baseball Championship was held on August 22, with Chiben Wakayama (Wakayama) edging out Kendai Takasaki (Gunma) 4–3,
claiming their fourth title and first in five years. After the hard-fought game, a congratulatory message arrived for Chiben Wakayama from an unexpected source, catching fans off guard.
The message to the hard-hitting Chiben squad — now tied with PL Gakuen for four summer titles — came from none other than Borussia Dortmund, a powerhouse of Germany’s top soccer division.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
4Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:13:46.70ID:XdIRPN4+0
Gotta love it when foreigners get used for a good laugh.
5Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:14:09.94ID:w6ak6/8n0
Her boyfriend's probably on the Chiben Wakayama baseball team, I bet.
6Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:14:49.51ID:bHumIe/V0
Damn, Dortmund actually knows its stuff — the Shinji Kagawa effect, maybe?
See you at the WBC, lol (b)
7Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:15:21.79ID:F7KwPLmC0
Meanwhile in Japan, some sports writer was desperately hunting for anything to nitpick so they could churn out a rage-bait article for the clicks.
8Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:15:29.12ID:aNKQ/Wwf0
Honestly can't tell the Carp, the Reds, and Chiben apart.
9Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:15:37.60ID:7e4iIAp20
Soccer ('ball-kickers', a dismissive nickname for the sport) really does love cozying up to baseball, huh (lol)
10Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:15:41.34ID:YJhwfHhF0
This is baffling.
Is there actually some connection between them?
81Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:53:39.44ID:e2eIAcv+0
>>10
Their connection is the yellow-and-black stripes — Dortmund's tiger mascot kind of looks like Puma's logo.
Apparently that's led to some exchange between the two organizations.
This is probably part of that.
A 'Tigers meets Koshien' kind of link.
12Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:16:15.32ID:b2FLpBKI0
Japanese high school baseball has the whole world hooked
Even foreign soccer fanboys (サカ豚, a mocking nickname for soccer fans) can't resist it
13Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:17:05.75ID:+C9B4+Sl0
They also sent a 'good luck' message to both Chiben and Kendai Takasaki right after the semifinal ended. What's going on here?
14Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:17:07.62ID:v2dpa5AJ0
They actually showed up at Koshien Stadium recently too, and hung out with the Hanshin Tigers.
15Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:17:18.04ID:NqZoe6g60
Isn't there actually something to the theory that Germany has more baseball fields with natural grass in the infield and outfield than Japan does?
16Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:17:30.23ID:0+Br+GRj0
What are the soccer fanboys gonna do with this one?
24Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:21:08.75ID:FAzZ9+KY0
>>16
It's probably just their Japan social media guy, who happens to be a baseball fanboy (焼き豚, the mocking counterpart term to サカ豚), posting this on his own.
57Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:35:44.42ID:QZgKOQc40
>>16
I'm gonna go streak to the convenience store 🙁 (a classic 5ch meme for 'I can't even')
18Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:18:18.46ID:j5ZpTfAf0
>>1
https://imgur.com/n3ElGF4.png
https://imgur.com/dRfUYSZ.png
20Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:20:14.35ID:XkWhpgSR0
Daniel Kahl was an exchange student at Chiben Gakuen.
21Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:20:19.41ID:0+Br+GRj0
See, baseball IS recognized overseas
Soccer fanboys are just liars
23Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:21:04.21ID:fyYINxCN0
Were they even watching Koshien, though?
32Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:24:05.76ID:F7KwPLmC0
>>23
The fact that they posted the message just 5 minutes later suggests they were watching via 'Virtual Koshien' (バーチャル高校野球, Japan's official Koshien livestream service).
29Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:23:13.04ID:qaVYpZs10
Soccer fanboys: 'Dortmund's a baseball fanboy now!'
33Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:24:12.47ID:0+Br+GRj0
Soccer fanboys: 'A baseball fanboy must've hacked Dortmund's social media.'
34Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:24:23.26ID:i0a+eCW20
Soccer's washed up even in Germany these days
Baseball's the popular one now
36Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:25:10.26ID:TaeoXsse0
🌹Women's Chronicles🌹 Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture — founder of the Benten-shu sect & guardian figure to Konosuke Matsushita: Ms. Chiben Ōmori
https://note.com/happywomen_jp/n/nd08b8ac7cbce
37Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:25:27.01ID:kTc55Bgp0
Baseball fanboys are literally crying tears of joy, lol
Meanwhile in Germany it's more like 'baseball, what's that?'
38Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:25:50.46ID:qfnNFfSn0
Baseball diplomacy.
Nobody cares about 'ball-kicking' — everyone plays that everywhere.
Japan's real sports culture is baseball.
40Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:27:23.08ID:0+Br+GRj0
Germans are cozying up to high school baseball ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!! (a classic 5ch hype expression)
Meanwhile high school soccer gets totally ignored lol
41Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:27:50.13ID:KCqSNOh20
Koshien Went International While We Weren't Looking
43Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:29:28.18ID:ME12SzqX0
Wait, can you even watch 'Virtual Koshien' from Germany?
45Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:30:19.61ID:lHybg+eV0
>>43
Pretty much, yeah — you can watch it if you actually want to.
47Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:30:27.07ID:IJl+zDV10
Soccer fanboys: 'But the world—!'
The world: 'High school baseball rules.'
49Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:31:37.22ID:ME12SzqX0
Ecuador is actually where Okabayashi Yoichi was born, you know — he played baseball there himself.
50Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:32:47.05ID:GwPeG6ZH0
When I saw it on Instagram I figured it was photoshopped, but this is actually real?
72Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:46:49.83ID:sCajXt/X0
Lukas Podolski used to always rave about Koshien back when he played for Vissel Kobe.
He'd say things like 'they play almost every single day and it's always packed — just as good as the Bundesliga,' and soccer fans would rip into him for it.
79Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:52:39.08ID:F9CLgget0
>>72
The Bundesliga only plays like twice a month, though.
86Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 19:56:44.02ID:qlw2Yc8K0
>>72
He also said soccer isn't actually Japan's No. 1 sport, and the soccer fanboys lost it over that one too.
88Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 20:00:24.64ID:cdMKmdjF0
Why does nobody ever bring up high school soccer?
89Anonymous2026/08/22(土) 20:01:15.85ID:KpfZTOI50
>>88
Because most people don't even know it's a thing.
*This article was compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread [High School Baseball] Five Minutes After Chiben Wakayama’s Fourth Summer Title in Five Years, German Soccer Powerhouse Dortmund Sends Congratulations.
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