Discovering conjugal love in France as well…… rugby Japan’s Inagaki’s father-in-law talks about the tough battle that awaits his daughter and her husband.
Keita Inagaki (33), a PR player who played until the 20th minute of the second half of the game, was almost evenly matched in the powerful scrum, which was expected to be inferior. The two teams battled almost evenly in the powerful scrum, and the game was close until the 14th minute of the second half, when the teams gradually lost power and ran out of steam in the final minutes. After the match, Inagaki revealed the following.
After the match, Inagaki stated, “I felt we had a good response in the scrum, but we couldn’t show what we had prepared if we couldn’t win the ball in the lineout, so that remained an issue. We lost today, and I think that is all that matters.
Eating Kansai-style okonomiyaki while eating ……
Inagaki was the first player in the history of Japan’s national rugby team to make it to the last eight at the ’19 tournament, where he helped the team to a top eight finish with his running ability in the scrum against the strongest men in the world and his relentless support for the ball carrier. He became famous as “the man who never smiles,” and married Takako Arai (now Takako Inagaki), an international model, on January 11, 2011.
His wife’s father is Hiromasa Arai, a former professional baseball player who played for Nankai and Kintetsu, and achieved 2,000 hits as well as the top batter’s title. Around June, when the members of Japan’s World Cup team were still undecided, Inagaki and his wife visited Mr. Arai for dinner. Arai recalls.
He came to Kobe, where I live. He (Inagaki) is usually very careful about what he eats, so I asked my daughter about it, and she said, ‘Kansai-style okonomiyaki is good,’ so I made and prepared it myself.”
According to the Internet article “FMV Sports,” Inagaki places a great deal of importance on “the food and nutrition he puts into his body more than training,” and during the season he takes about 6 or 7 nutritional meals a day, including snacks, in addition to his daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and tries to consume 4000-5000 kcal a day. He is very particular about what he takes in, and he refrains from eating beef the day before a competition because “my stomach feels a little heavy the next day,” and he does not eat carbohydrates at night if his body does not need them.
Inagaki, who “doesn’t seem to eat floury foods very often” (Arai), chose okonomiyaki, suggesting that the day he had dinner with Arai may have been a day when he could relax a little from his usual stoic diet.
In such a relaxed atmosphere, Mr. Arai found it refreshing to see the image of today’s married couples.
He was kind to my daughter,” she said. My daughter herself often says, ‘I’m glad he’s being kind to me. I think that most professional athletes have the stance of asking their partners for “firm support. When I was a professional athlete, I did not ask my wife, who was a housewife, to support me strongly, but she did support me in her own way, and because of that, I was able to do my best for my family, but they seem to differ in that respect.
He concentrates on himself as a rugby player and my daughter concentrates on herself as a model, and they both seem to talk about supporting each other when one of them is available. So when he has time, he sometimes cooks meals for my daughter.
