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

Since opening the store, the Asano family has had warm bread on the table. His father, Tomoyuki, is busy as an active truck driver, and Asano’s one younger brother, Yuya, the fourth son, follows Asano in playing for J1 Hiroshima. The brothers are active in Japan and abroad, and only manager Shohei and Asano are involved in “Asa no Rashi,” but Shohei is happy that his mother, Aneko Miyako, is now able to enjoy the freshly baked bread.

Whenever I have time between jobs, I drop by my parents’ house and often see my mother on the phone with Takuma [in Germany]. It seems that Takuma is the one who calls her. It seems that she always calls him before a game.”

Although it is not clear what they are talking about, I wonder if for Asano it is a “wish” to play well in the games. It is said that this continued until just before the World Cup.

I don’t know the details of the conversation, but my mother is in constant contact with Asano himself,” he said. This time, I went to Qatar with my fifth son (Fumiya), who has been with Takuma since he was a soccer boy, my only sister (Koharu), and my parents. They brought with them a banner of the bakery with messages of support from the customers who come to the bakery.

Asano was not a member of Japan’s national team at the last World Cup in Russia in 2018, and was forced to accompany the team as a member of the preliminary roster. This time, he got his long-cherished ticket to the World Cup, but on September 10, about two months before the squad was announced, he tore the medial ligament in his right knee in a league match in Germany. He opted for conservative treatment instead of surgery, and was able to return to club practice about two weeks before the World Cup began.

He only played in a training match against the Canadian national team on November 17, and then went to the World Cup almost on the spur of the moment, but he was undaunted and put his mind to the task of participating in the World Cup. Against Germany, he swung his injured right foot at the side of Neuer, the German goalkeeper, who is regarded as the best in the world. Perhaps it was the “family love” of the Asano family, who came to the stands in Qatar to watch the match, that made him forget the pain.