With the end of the 2022 Nippon Professional League regular season, the Nippon Professional League Association recently held its annual awards ceremony, the most valuable player, the best young player, the best supervisor, the best eleven, and other awards have been awarded, today we will look at the list of winners.
Most Valuable Player: Tomohide Iwata (Yokohama Mariners)
The Yokohama Mariners have won the J-League title this season, and the team has been playing consistently throughout the season, so it's only fitting that the Yokohama Mariners' 2022 J-League Player of the Year is Yokohama Mariners' keeper Tomohide Iwata, who is 25 years old and has played in 32 matches this season, which is the most game time of the Yokohama Mariners' squad, and he's not only been outstanding in defense, but he's also contributed 2 goals and 1 assist throughout the season.
Tomohiro Iwata can play not only as a central midfielder, but also as a defensive midfielder, and he has also tried out for Japan this season.
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The Yokohama Mariners will be playing in the final week of the East Asian Cup and it is the fifth time a Yokohama Mariners player has been voted as the Nippon Professional Football League's Most Valuable Player, following Shunsuke Nakamura in 2000, Yuji Nakazawa in 2004, Shunsuke Nakamura in 2013 and Teruto Nakagawa in 2019.
After winning the award, Iwata mentioned that he had never imagined that he would win the JLF Championship and MVP in his career in J3, and this award is not only an affirmation of his own performance, but also a motivation for him to continue to work hard to improve himself. In addition, Iwata thanked his family for their support, but also thanked his wife for her support of his soccer career, and said that when he became the MVP, his wife also deserved to become the MVP, and he was seriously in love.
Best Young Player: Shindai Hosoya (Kashiwa Reysol)
Kashiwa Reysol striker Makoto Hosoya, who has been representing Japan in both the J-League and the U-23 Asian Cup, has been voted the best young player in the J-League this season, and there is no doubt about it.
The 21-year-old Hosoya, who has eight goals and four assists in the JLF this season, can be said to be taking a back seat in the Kashiwa Reysol front line. Her outstanding performance has not only earned her the honor of representing Japan at the
In addition to the final week of the Asian Cup, he was also selected to play in the final week of the East Asian Cup, and got the first top!
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Worcestershire hat, for Hosoya Shindai can be said to be a season of great harvest.
It's worth mentioning that this is the third time since Hiroki Sakai in 2011 and Yuta Nakayama in 2017 that a player has been voted as the Young Player of the Year, so it seems that JLF fans should pay more attention to Kashiwa Reysol's youth products in the future.
Best Supervisor: Skippy (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
The German-born coach of Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Mr. Skippy, won the League Cup and reached the final of the Emperor's Cup in his first season in charge of the team, as well as finishing third in the Nippon Professional League, which is a great season for the team.
The 57-year-old Skibby, who hung up his boots early due to injury, started his coaching career at the age of 22 with the Schalk 04 youth team, and over the years he has also coached Dormont, Liverpool, Galatasaray, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hapag-Lauerbrunnen, and Greece.
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The team has a lot of experience in coaching, as they have been playing for famous teams such as Sanfrecce Hiroshima. This season he not only for the three arrows of Hiroshima to regain the strong team, but also kicked up the two new stars Mitsuda Makoto and Kawamura Takumo, but also to make Sasaki Sho, Shiogushi, Kashiwa Haofumi and other veterans to regain their good form, three arrows of Hiroshima in the coming season will continue to be led by the Shi Kibi, the performance is worth looking forward to.
Sharpshooter: Thiago Cintana (Shimizu Heartbeat)
Shimizu was relegated to the J-League after five seasons after losing to Gonzaga Hokkaido on the final day of the tournament, but their Brazilian goal scorer, Téa Gosintaner, was the consolation prize for the season with 14 goals.
The 29-year-old Tea Gosintana, who was born in Brazil's third tier, Santa Carruthers, was not a famous player, but his performance earned him an opportunity to move to Portugal, where he was playing for Portuguese Premier League club Sindacara before joining Shimizu Heartbeat in the 2021 season. Thiago Cintana already scored 13 goals in his first season with Shimizu S Pulse last season, and he has 14 this season, but unfortunately, his prolific play has not helped Shimizu S Pulse keep their place in the top flight.
Téa Gosintaner became the top scorer of the JLF with 14 goals this season, which is the lowest number of goals scored by a top scorer in the JLF, and there is a big gap with Lee Ando Damio and Maeda Dairen who won the top scorer with 23 goals last season. However, considering Shimizu S Pulse's weaker strength, Téa Gosintaner has already delivered enough with this number, and it will be interesting to see if he has the chance to move to other stronger teams!
Best Eleven: Yokohama Mariners, Kawasaki Frontale split 10 spots
Yokohama Mariners and Kawasaki Frontale, two traditional powerhouses, will have to fight until the last week to determine the champion of the league, which shows that the performance of the two armies in the league this year is relatively the most stable, and it is no wonder that in the best eleven of this season's lineup, the two teams have divided ten seats.
The 2022 Nippon Professional League Best Eleven is listed below:
Goalkeeper: Yohei Takayama (Yokohama Marinos)
Backup: Vision Yamane, Akira Taniguchi (Kawasaki Striker), Tomohiro Iwata, Ryuta Koike (Yokohama Mariners)
Midfielders: Akihiro Parent, Taido Wakizaka (Kawasaki Striker), Hirata Mizunuma (Yokohama Marinos)
Strikers: Téa Gosintana (Shimizu S Pulse), Jose Elba (Yokohama Marinos), Marciano (Kawasaki Frontale)
Best Goal: Takumo Kawamura (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
As mentioned above, Sanfrecce Hiroshima has a newcomer, Takumu Kawamura, who has scored three goals this season, which isn't much, but in a home match against Shimizu S Pulse on September 3, this year, he took a left-footed shot before half-time, and it went into the goal of Shimizu S Pulse, which was voted the best goal of the J-League.
The rest of the major winners of the 2022 JLF Awards
Nippon Professional League Superior Supervisor Award: Meskat (Yokohama Mariners)
Fair Play Award: Urawa Red Diamonds, Shimizu S Pulse, Kobe Victory, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Nagoya Whale, Osaka Sakura, Shonan Bima, FC Tokyo
Most Outstanding Judge Award: Takaharu Sato
Most Outstanding Assistant Referee Award: Shao Cheng Qiao
Meritorious Player Award: Tsuyoshi Aoki, Isshiki Abe, Naoki Ishihara, Kato Okubo, Makoto Kakuta, Yuzo Kobayashi, Yoshihi Takahashi, Tatsuya Tanaka, Toryo Tanaka, Yucho Tanaka, Keiji Tamada, Tatsuya Tanizawa
In addition to the above prizes, the J2 season is also over, the Japanese professional football world, only the return of Kumamoto Roasso and Kyoto Immortals in the coming Sunday to compete for the qualification of the Japanese League to be carried out. J2, Niigata swans finally 4 points difference over FC Yokohama to become the J2 champion, FC Yokohama although Ogawa Hikaru as the J2 top scorer, but could not be the champion to send off the famous Nakamura Shunsuke who hangs up his boots after the season, so that's a little bit of regret. It's a little bit of a pity. As for the relegated teams, Iwate Morioka Senzuru at the end and FC Ryukyu at the end of the second will land in the J3 competition in the coming session.
In the J3 League, there are still two weeks of fixtures to go, but FC Iwaki, who are in their first season in the J3, are nine points ahead of Kagoshima United after a 3-0 win in the last round and have been declared early winners of the championship and promoted to the J2, while Fujie MYFC, Matsumoto Sanya, Kagoshima United and FC Imabari will be in the remaining two rounds of the league to compete for the remaining spot in the J2.
