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The story
On September 18, TV Asahi announced it will broadcast the Japan vs. Brazil match live on its terrestrial network. The game is part of the “MIZUHO BLUE CHALLENGE THE KALLANG FOOTBALL SERIES,” an international tournament held in Singapore on November 14. Kickoff is set for 7:15 PM local time, with TV Asahi’s broadcast starting at 6:30 PM Japan time. The source article framed the match as a shot at “revenge for the World Cup,” but 5ch reacted coolly, with posters pointing out that “there’s no such thing as revenge in a friendly.” The thread also spun off into debates over consistency with past coverage of Japan-Germany rematches, manager Moriyasu’s tactics, and who’ll be doing commentary.
TV Asahi Corporation announced on the 18th that it will broadcast Japan vs. Brazil, set for Saturday, November 14, live on TV Asahi’s terrestrial network.
The Japan vs. Brazil match, part of the international tournament “MIZUHO BLUE CHALLENGE THE KALLANG FOOTBALL SERIES SINGAPORE” held in Singapore, is scheduled to kick off at 7:15 PM local time on November 14.
TV Asahi’s terrestrial network is set to begin its live broadcast at 6:30 PM that day.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / original article here
What people said
A battle we absolutely cannot lose!
Fire Chairman Miyamoto.
Ugh, seriously, again?! (lol)
https://x.com/friday_twit/status/2100789412078530636?s=46
Japan's getting slammed by other countries on X too
Japan just isn't a country fit to host international tournaments anymore
◾︎ Asian Games: complaints pour in from other nations over organizational failures ahead of opening
https://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3653693
How about winning when it actually counts, unpopular ball-kicking sport, lol
Makes you wonder if the people saying "a friendly can't be a revenge match" were also coldly saying that about the Germany match at the time.
Go look at the actual German newspaper headlines from that time — every single one was about "crisis at home" and "is Flick getting the axe," nobody was saying "revenge on Japan!"
Isn't it peak dumb to take the Japanese media's own invented "Germany's revenge match!" hype at face value, get worked up over a premise that never existed, and then cry double standard?
Get all of Brazil talking about him and then not even use him?
Poor Shiokai, that's just too much.
Forget about soccer the second the World Cup ends.
The system was never built for Japan to actually win the whole thing.
Same as how the house always wins at gambling.
and losing just confirms "yeah, we were weak after all."
What's even the point of
setting up such a pointless match? (´・ω・`)
It's fine!
It'll be fun if Shiokai plays, that's all that matters!
Re: #14
Rugby doesn't get terrestrial broadcasts.
I'm jealous of soccer…
Brazil requested friendly after friendly for "revenge" after their crushing 2014 World Cup loss to Germany, so maybe it does mean something after all.
Back then, Japan was just barely holding on no matter how things fell.
Brazil was completely different — they were just watching to see what would happen to Japan.
The people running things basically already knew Brazil would win.
And sure enough, Tanaka ended up making the mistake.
The whole game was rigged that way from the start.
So even if Japan had miraculously won,
they'd just get thoroughly marked and boxed in next time.
That's all it would've been.
So there's really only one thing this match is for:
letting Japan have its moment of glory.
What is this?
Some "Yomiuri guy" thing? [a 5ch in-joke; exact reference unclear]
"Revenge" for the humiliating 7-1. In the rematch, Brazil won 1-0 and got their psychological closure.
2022 Germany → 2023 Japan
Rematch against the Japan side that beat them 2-1 at the World Cup. Except Germany lost again — 4-1, at home this time.
So Brazil "got revenge and healed the wound," while Germany "went for revenge in the rematch and only made the wound deeper."
Even a friendly rematch against a team that beat you at the World Cup can carry real psychological and team-rebuilding weight.
Still, losing 1-7 at home in a World Cup is about as humiliating a defeat as it gets for Brazil.
Brazilian soccer's popularity took a hit ever since.
"E" marks an error that led to a goal, and Tanaka has one.
This is the same stats format officially used by the English Football Association — the one that named Mitoma to their Best XI.
https://imgur.com/NOrY7EF.jpeg
Here's the key part: nobody was given an "E" for the first goal conceded.
What that means is, when a conceded goal can't clearly be pinned on one person, no "E" gets assigned.
So the fact that Tanaka has an "E" means the second goal was clearly on him.
Thanks to what Shiokai said, they'll be playing for real.
If they somehow lose, their fans back home might actually kill them.
That's not what you call "revenge."
It is revenge.
Germany came at Japan for "revenge" after the World Cup too, remember.
Fine by me —
if we lose, fire Moriyasu.
No — that's just how it was rigged to go.
For Brazil, it all went according to plan.
For Japan, every second their bodies just kept stiffening up with cortisol.
Brazil completely understood that and calmly watched it happen.
Practically everyone on their side was certain they'd win.
That, right there, is the con that is sports.
If it's TV Asahi, it's probably Matsuki and Uchida again, right? [Yasutaro Matsuki and Atsuto Uchida, TV Asahi's regular soccer commentary duo]
Background and Talking Points
This match isn’t a standalone friendly — it’s one fixture within the “MIZUHO BLUE CHALLENGE THE KALLANG FOOTBALL SERIES,” an international tournament held in Singapore, and unlike the World Cup finals, there’s no ranking or qualification on the line. Still, the fact that the source article branded it “revenge for the World Cup” became the thread’s main point of contention. Two camps went back and forth without resolution: skepticism that a friendly can carry any real stakes at all (Reply #2), versus the counterpoint that nobody objected when the same “revenge” framing was used for the Germany rematch, so objecting only this time looks inconsistent (Reply #28). What’s easy for readers to misread is the punch carried by the word “revenge” itself — as the source article itself makes clear, this match has no direct bearing on any standings or tournament outcome and is simply part of squad-building for the national team. Note that some replies in the original thread made unverified claims targeting specific individuals; those have been left out of this write-up.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Soccer] Live Broadcast of Japan vs. Brazil Confirmed on TV Asahi Network!… Clash Set for November 14, Aiming for World Cup Revenge.”
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