Japan National Team Coach’s “Juniors” Talk about “Being Born the Son of Hajime Moriyasu
Father is Japan's national soccer team coach, second son Keigo and first son Shohei are popular YouTube stars with over 230,000 registered users, and third son Riku is a university student.
Three men wearing replica uniforms of the Japanese national soccer team. In fact, they are brothers. Shohei (31) is the eldest, Keigo (29) the second, and Riku (22) the third. Their father is Hajime Moriyasu, 54, the coach of Japan’s World Cup team, which starts in about two months.
Hajime played for Hiroshima and Sendai in the J-League until he was 35 years old. His three sons have followed the same footballing path as their father.
The second generation of a famous person is often the center of attention, and people compare them to their fathers. In many cases, children feel pressured and distressed when those around them compare them to their fathers. Keigo, however, denies this completely.
Keigo says, “Even though I want to be a professional soccer player, I have never thought that I have to become one. My father never told me to play soccer, nor did he ever teach me. I was naughty when I was little, so when I got into fights with my friends, my father would go with me to apologize. I was happy to have a relationship with my father that was no different from any other family.
Keigo went on to play for Sanfrecce Hiroshima’s youth team and then to Ryutsu Keizai University. After graduation, he went abroad to play professionally, and ended his playing career in Germany in 1919. In 2008, he invited Takayuki Fujii and Takuya Shigeyuki, who were his classmates from the youth team, to join his YouTube channel “LISEM. He launched the YouTube channel “LISEM” with his former youth teammates Takayuki Fujii and Takuya Shigeyuki, and has become a popular YouTube star with more than 230,000 registered users.
When I told my father that I was going to start a YouTube channel after I finished my active career, he said, “Are you going to be okay? Will I be able to make a living? But he said, ‘I’m going to wipe my own ass. But he said, ‘If you can wipe your own ass, it’s fine.
