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Talent Naomi Matsushima (54) posted a photo with her son on Instagram on November 7, showing herself alongside her 14-year-old son Jumaru, who plays for Yokohama FC Junior Youth Tsurumi (U-15). Jumaru’s team won 3-0 against FC Machida Zelvia Junior Youth that same day in the first round of the Kanto regional tournament of the Prince Takamado Cup JFA All Japan U-15 Football Championship. On 5ch’s Geinou/Sports Breaking News+ thread, discussion ranged from comments on his looks (“not exactly handsome, but he’s got a soccer-club face”) to debate over whether soccer or baseball is the more realistic career path for a celebrity’s kid.
Naomi Matsushima shares photo with 14-year-old son from J.League youth system — fans say “too handsome” and “those long legs!”
Talent Naomi Matsushima (54) updated her Instagram on the 7th, posting a photo with her 14-year-old son Jumaru, who belongs to Yokohama FC Junior Youth Tsurumi (U-15).
Jumaru’s team, Yokohama FC Junior Youth Tsurumi, won 3-0 against FC Machida Zelvia Junior Youth that same day in the first round of the Kanto regional tournament of the Prince Takamado Cup JFA All Japan U-15 Football Championship.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
unlike women, whose entire life is basically decided by looks.
Kind of looks like Matsuyama.
Even if you go pro in baseball, you get cut in 2-3 years if you don't produce results.
True, in soccer you can keep going like Kazu did. (Kazuyoshi Miura, still playing pro at nearly 60)
Soccer has a much wider base.
There are 60 clubs across the pro tiers from J1 down to J3, and once you count the amateur clubs below that, the number is enormous.
Baseball sets a high bar for physical ability.
In soccer, even someone small or frail still has a shot at going pro.
or if he'll end up on the regular high school federation (koutairen) track instead. Worth watching.
Didn't he go to an international school and speak fluent English too?
His mom's apparently 160cm, so he's got decent odds on height as well.
Good luck, kid.
It's Yokohama FC, not FC Yokohama.
Savoring moments like this without forgetting them — that's what it means to really live and die as a human being.
If you stay single your whole life, you never get this, so there's no real meaning to living.
Looking back, the time I spent cheering on my son's soccer, driving him to practice, and supporting him was the most fun part for me too.
My kid's in college now and quit soccer already.
I hope she enjoys this time while it lasts.
but this season both look like they might get relegated — rough.
some guys have even made it to the national team.
Soccer really does leave room for late bloomers.
My kid did fine up through Junior Youth but couldn't move up to the Youth team.
He got a recommendation to a soccer powerhouse high school, but even making the bench there is tough.
It's rough out there.
guess his dad had good athletic genes?
Maybe there's uselessly too many of them, though.
But that's exactly why it doesn't turn into baseball, where you get a steady stream of guys who flame out and end up as criminals.
Athletes have so much excess energy that it's better for them to keep playing sports.
If nobody had called him handsome in the first place, nobody would've needed to shoot it down either.
I think she's a wonderful mother.
Does he live in Yokohama, or commute in from Tokyo?
— funnier than Osero (Matsushima's old comedy duo).
On the level of Yoiko, TKO, or Masuoka.
Nope.
If you've got the skill, that's all that matters.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Jumaru currently plays at the Junior Youth (U-15) level, and the next hurdle is whether he can be promoted to the Youth team (roughly equivalent to high school). The J.League’s development pyramid has a wide base, with a large number of amateur clubs sitting beneath the pro tiers from J1 through J3, and some in the thread noted that “even someone small or physically frail has a shot at going pro” — one reason soccer comes up more often than baseball as a realistic career path for a celebrity’s child. Opinions on his looks ranged from the measured “not handsome, but he’s got a soccer-club face” to speculation about his father’s athletic genes — less a sharp divide of opinion than simply a difference in tone. Some remarks elsewhere in the thread mocking Matsushima’s background, her husband’s dating history, and homosexuality were unrelated to the main topic and have been excluded from this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Entertainment] Naomi Matsushima shares photo with 14-year-old son from J.League youth system — fans say “too handsome” and “those long legs!”.”
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