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Kyodo News reported on November 5 that Japan national team manager Hajime Moriyasu will finish his tenure by the end of this year, confirming that incoming manager Takeshi Oiwa will take charge of the national team from March next year as planned. Moriyasu is known as the mastermind behind Japan’s 2022 World Cup upsets over Germany and Spain, but his recent matches have leaned heavily on friendlies. On 5ch, opinions split between those who felt his departure came “too late” and those defending his achievements, with further debate over the practical question of how incoming manager Oiwa will handle the scheduling clash between the Asian Cup and the U-23 Asian Cup.
11/5 (Thu) 20:14 — Kyodo News
It was confirmed on the 5th that Japan national team manager Hajime Moriyasu will finish his tenure by the end of this year, with incoming manager Takeshi Oiwa set to take charge of the national team from March next year as planned.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
More importantly, what about Sakamoto lmaooo
Honestly it was already a mistake having Moriyasu go into the Asian Cup in the first place.
The JFA really loves Hiroshima.
Guess the comments will be wall-to-wall "Thank you, Poichi (sniff)" (Moriyasu's nickname).
Wait, they could only call up A-team players because of the Asian Cup — now that the Asian Cup's been postponed, isn't there no justification for calling them up at all? 🤔
Well, it'll probably end up framed as Moriyasu's farewell match, so it works out neatly in the end.
Let Oiwa handle the rest of this year's matches too.
Now go get the pinch hitter warmed up.
He was probably all fired up to go through to the Asian Cup in January,
but there's no way he'd have lasted until next December.
Well, at least the Asian Cup getting postponed moved his departure up — silver lining.
Maybe he's aiming for the top of the JFA next.
There's no way Oiwa can be at both.
It's pretty likely the U-23 Asian Cup schedule will get shifted.
The Asian Cup and the youth tournaments have never overlapped before.
The U-23 tournament is likely to move to March 2028.
They definitely won't hold it at the same time.
Building everything around Oiwa from the start is the root of this whole mess.
Now Saudi Arabia reads the room and lets him wrap it all up neatly with a nice friendly win.
The real heroes were the players.
Letting Oiwa get the experience instead is clearly the better call.
The Bundesliga/Belgian-league guys can get called up regardless of their clubs during the winter break…
They can't call them up without the club's permission.
There's no way they get free rein over players during the winter break.
South Korea, Germany (x2), Spain, England, Brazil, Turkey, Uruguay, Tunisia, Scotland, Canada, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia —
and he still gets mocked as the "King of Friendlies."
Everyone was loving it at the time, though.
What a spoiled era we live in now. Baseball's finished.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Manager Hajime Moriyasu is known for his landmark wins over Germany and Spain at the 2022 World Cup, but in recent matches he’s leaned heavily on friendlies, leaving behind a record of toppling powerhouses that coexists with a persistent “he’s not delivering results” critique. Behind this resignation report is the fact that the handover to incoming manager Takeshi Oiwa, originally planned for after the Asian Cup, got moved up because the Asian Cup itself was postponed. Notably, the thread’s interest centered less on the timing of Moriyasu’s departure itself and more on the practical question of how the incoming Oiwa regime will handle the scheduling clash between the Asian Cup and the U-23 Asian Cup. Opinions on the “King of Friendlies” label split depending on whether people weigh his results against top teams separately from his record in actual tournaments — and readers should keep in mind that both views only capture part of the picture.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “[Soccer] Manager Hajime Moriyasu to Step Down by Year’s End, New Manager Takes Over in March.”
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