Takuma Asano’s “Family Love” photo – Gorasso against Germany!

Takuma Asano, who scored the game-winning goal against powerful Germany in the first round of the World Cup soccer tournament, is the owner of a high-end bread store in his hometown of Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, called Asatakugram. His older brother, Shohei, who bakes bread every day as the store manager, screamed with joy the morning after the historic goal.

Even in the evening,” he said, “I can’t get over how excited I am. Today alone, I baked more than 200 loaves of bread, but I can’t keep up with all the baking. We have reservations for a while, but we are full for the next few days.

At around 4 p.m. on November 24, the day after Asano’s final goal, when the store announced in front of the store that “only those with reservation tickets are allowed to purchase tickets,” some customers in line looked disappointed and shrugged their shoulders, while others turned to the manager, Shohei, and the store to take pictures, or at least make a reservation for a few days in advance. Some female customers even made reservations for a few days in advance.

What did they talk about with Asano before he opened the bakery in 2020? Shohei once told FRIDAY Digital, “One day, Takuma told me that he was going to open a bakery in 2020.

One day, Takuma said to me, ‘Kohei, why don’t you open a bakery with us? At the time, I was working in a business that had nothing to do with bread or food, but I had always loved bread, so I really wanted to try it. Among my many siblings, we were bread lovers, and even after I started working, whenever I found out there was good bread, I would immediately go out and buy it. We had a thing for bread.

The family was large, with seven siblings and nine members, including the parents. All six played soccer for Perna SC in Komono-cho, Mie Prefecture, but Asano said he once considered giving up the soccer-centered lifestyle out of concern for the family finances of a family of nine. However, his parents’ enthusiastic encouragement helped Asano to give up the soccer-centered life in his hometown. However, with the enthusiastic encouragement of his parents, he entered Yokkaichi Chuo Technical High School, a local powerhouse, and his talent blossomed as he became the top scorer in the high school championship. Upon graduation from high school, he joined Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Asano’s mother, Aneko Miyako, once told FRIDAY, “Since I was a child, I have given birthdays to my family.

She gave him a Honda station wagon as a “thank-you” gift when he became a professional player.

Asano’s love for his family did not change even after he became a professional player and separated from them. Asano remembers his mother, Toshiko, eating bread for her breakfast at the end of the day after taking her children to school.

She wanted her mother, who always ate cold bread, to eat warm, fluffy bread.

It was around this time that Asano met Takuya Kishimoto, a bakery producer at Japan Bakery Marketing (JBM), which has expanded its “high-end bread stores with strange names” to 390 stores in Japan and abroad, and this led Asano to give shape to his vague wish. The current form of the bakery was born, with Asano, who lives in Germany, as the owner and Shohei managing the bakery as the manager.