There's also this controversy over the J-League. Raising a question to the League of Hiroshima Ungentleman Who Interrupted Long-Royne
Oct 02, 2024
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There is a rather ridiculous 'Dirty Play' debate in the Japanese J-League.
Machida Zelvia and Hiroshima are engaged in a war of nerves over the act of spraying water on a ball-wiping towel to be used when throwing.
Machida is well known as Oh Se-hoon's team that was included in the list of two consecutive A matches in October announced by Korean national team coach Hong Myung-bo.
Machida confronted Hiroshima in a J-League 1 game held on the 28th of last month. At that time, Machida's coach Kuroda, who was completely defeated by Hiroshima 0-2, said, `After 20 minutes in the first half, Hiroshima did unsaunting things, such as spraying water on the towels that we had kept to wipe the ball when we were throwing it. This should not happen. I want you to take care of it thoroughly."
It is said that Machida usually puts towels around the pitch to take advantage of the long-shot pattern every time he plays. This is because you have to wipe and throw the ball with a dry towel to reduce the case of slipping.
Leaving towels outside the game does not constitute a violation of the rules of the game. Usually, players clean the ball with a uniform and throw-in, but they tolerate using towels prepared outside instead of uniforms.
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This means that raising an official issue with the federation is an anti-sports act and that the disciplinary action should be considered. In fact, even if we go to war with Hiroshima, we cannot let it go.
'Cheong document' reportedly contains information calling for all clubs to pay attention to equipment installed by the team, such as unauthorized removal or water spraying.
Until now, there have often been cases where towels installed are collected by officials from the other team. It is said that there were few cases of explicit interference by spraying water. Machida explained that he took the action of submitting a written statement to the J-League because there was an example where a ball wiped with a wet towel slipped and Longrow's distance did not come out.
The Machida club also submitted a video showing Hiroshima players and coaching staff spraying water on Machida's towels while warming up in the warm-up zone.
Japanese media Daily Sports reported a photo of Kuroda finding a wet towel and strongly protesting during the game at the time.
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