Wataru Endo, who currently plays for England's Liverpool, is a soccer player who is well-known not only in Japan but all over the world.
He is the captain of the Japan national team, but on August 18, 2023, he suddenly transferred from Stuttgart, Germany to the world-famous Liverpool.
From there, in just four months, he was named Liverpool MVP of the month for December.
In this article, I researched Endo's parents, younger brother, and younger sister, and found that his father was amazing.
It's great to have such a visionary father. I also wanted to be a father like this.
目次
先だしまとめ
- Endo's father is an experienced soccer player and the coach of Minamitotsuka Youth Soccer Club, to which Endo belonged.
- Endo's mother is a junior high school teacher
- Endo's younger brother, who is three years younger than him, aspired to become a professional soccer player, but after working as a member of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, he worked at the JICA Sudan office as a planning researcher.
- Endo's younger sister, who is 11 years younger than him, is a part-time worker.
- It seems that all three of them are conveying their father's message of ``Live freely.''
family, parents
When Endo entered elementary school, he joined a local youth team called the Minamitotsuka Youth Soccer Club. It was not a powerful club, but an ordinary team that you could find anywhere, and there were few coaches, so Endo's father, Shusaku Endo, who had soccer experience, joined the team as a coach.
His father's words in the article: ``I've been watching Wataru ever since, but I never thought he could become a pro.''
Quoted from Weekly Gendai
A long interview article with Endo's father that begins with this preface has been published in Kodansha's ``Gendai Business'' media.
This is…a wonderful article.
Endo's dad is really great.
There are words written that have the connotation of "Are you really an ordinary person?"
I would like all parents who are raising children to read this, not just Endo's fans.
The article is divided into three parts, and is quite a long interview.
The story covers everything from Wataru Endo's childhood to his story after he moved to Liverpool.
The article was published before his performance in December, but it ended with his father's words, as if he had foreseen his success.
Here I will list some of my favorite words from my father.
I am often asked, Why did he become a professional?'' I think the biggest factor is humility. This part was outstanding. I continued to teach Wataru even after he graduated, and I was in the training field for a total of 15 years, but there are very few children who have the ability to listen. They don't have the ears to listen as much as good kids, and they become stubborn and get angry when someone says something to them. On the other hand, even when Wataru was told something painful by his instructor, he listened to the advice seriously and put it into practice, saying,They are telling me this for my own growth.'' His attitude of trying to absorb things was clearly different from other children.
Kodansha's "Modern Business" media
I understand.
The better the kids, the less they listen to their instructors, and the less they grow from there…
Kodansha's "Modern Business" media
- When Endo was in his third year of junior high school, there was a class in which he was asked to write a letter to himself 10 years from now. Shusaku still treasures the letter that says ``Wataru Endo in 10 years.'' The letter said:
- I hope that my future self will become a soccer player, be active as a professional player, and be active as a member of the Japanese national team.
- I hope that he is enjoying soccer as a world-class defender.
- Please note: The main text of the article contains a photo of the letter actually written by Endo.
It's the same thing that Keisuke Honda wrote in his childhood collection, ``In the future, I'll be No. 10 for Milan…''
Right now, he is crushing opponents as the world's number one midfielder at Liverpool.
The level of execution is incredible!!
Kodansha's "Modern Business" media
- “I found out about his transfer to Liverpool from Yahoo News. After that, I actually got a LINE message from him (lol). Ever since he was a kid, he’ve always said that he wanted to play in the Premier League. But I never thought it would come true. did not"
- "I'm sure he's hitting a wall with Liverpool right now. But he didn't make it in Shonan at first. In Belgium and Germany, he was on the bench at first. Even the Japanese national team couldn't stand on the pitch at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Even so, he did not waste the opportunity that came his way and got a regular spot. Just like before, he must be finding problems and working hard to solve them. Over time, they will be resolved. That is Wataru's life."
- Please note:、Please note: The main text of the article contains a screenshot of the line in which Endo actually reported his transfer to Liverpool to his father.
The dad who replies to the screenshot of the line by saying, ``I think I can do it normally'' is so cool.
Great parent-child relationship!!
Kodansha's "Modern Business" media
- The goal of raising children is to make them independent. In order to achieve that goal, I was most conscious of not expecting much from my children. Parents always have high expectations for their children. However, I think there are many cases where parents' excessive expectations become a burden to their children.
- I never said, "Do that. Do this'' That's why I never told them to study, and I never asked them if they had finished their homework during summer vacation. He is the one who is in trouble because he can't study. My wife used to be a junior high school teacher, and we basically have the same idea. He was the type of person who left things to his own initiative, and he seemed to think that he would study if he thought it was necessary. Of course, we have different ideas about the details, but I think it was good for the children that the husband and wife were looking in the same direction.
That's right… I know it, but I keep saying it…
Endo's mother was a junior high school teacher…and it's amazing how she endures when she tells him to study…
I keep asking, “Have you finished your homework?”
younger brother, younger sister
In this article, the father also talks about Endo's younger brother and sister.
Kodansha's "Modern Business" media
- Endo's younger brother, who is three years younger than Wataru, continued to play soccer until college with the aim of becoming a professional, but in his fourth year he participated in a short-term dispatch with JICA's Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and went to Africa. Since then, he have been working at the JICA Sudan office as a planning researcher, thinking, ``I want to work for the United Nations someday to help poor children around the world.'' Akira Endo's X
- Endo's sister, who is 11 years younger than Wataru, is a part-time worker because she doesn't want to go to higher education or get a job.
- In the words of their father, ``Because they were raised in the same way, all three of them are living freely and freely.''
After all, the ultimate goal of raising children is independence.
It doesn't matter if you go to university or have money.
During the Qatar World Cup, he came to support Wataru from Uganda, where I was staying.
His younger brother was also interviewed.
Is there something about the Endo family that makes ordinary people's fathers and younger brothers want to interview them?
It's an article in "SPORTS" ~ a media that supports social contribution activities through sports ~, but when I read it, I realized that the younger brother is also a very bold and active person, and that he is like that older brother and this younger brother… …I see…it felt like that.
marriage, wife
This article summarizes Endo's wife and children.
Wataru Endo's SNS
- Instagram ⇒ Many soccer photos and posts
- X ⇒ There are also a lot of soccer posts here.
- Ameblog ⇒ There are a lot of Endo players who post with their families and feel ``warm-hearted.'' However, the last post was on July 29, 2019.
summary
- Endo's father is an experienced soccer player and the coach of Minamitotsuka Youth Soccer Club, to which Endo belonged.
- Endo's mother is a junior high school teacher
- Endo's younger brother, who is three years younger than him, aspired to become a professional soccer player, but after working as a member of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, he worked at the JICA Sudan office as a planning researcher.
- Endo's younger sister, who is 11 years younger than him, is a part-time worker.
- It seems that all three of them are conveying their father's message of ``Live freely.''
References
- The father of Japan national soccer team captain Wataru Endo reveals... What is the "big difference" between him and other soccer boys? The “biggest factor” that allowed me to transfer to prestigious Liverpool
- When he was a boy, he was always number 2 or 3... How did an ``everywhere soccer boy'' become ``the captain of Japan's international team''? "'Father's teachings' that Endo Wataru cherished"
- From "an ordinary soccer boy" to "the big stage of the Premier League"... Wataru Endo's father said something surprising that he "never did" to his child
