Message from Ichiro In the last "Ichiro Cup"

Message from Ichiro The last "Ichiro Cup" on December 22 20:23

Mr. Ichiro, who has been active in major league Mariners and retired, has participated in the last awards ceremony of the youth baseball tournament, which has been held for a long time in his hometown of Toyoyama, Aichi.

The "Ichiro Cup" held in Toyoyama-cho, the hometown of Ichiro since 1996, has been decided to be over due to the fact that Ichiro has retired from active duty. And the last award ceremony was held.

In this, Mr. Ichiro said he received the necessary training to teach baseball at high school and college this month, saying, `` Please continue baseball as you may be able to meet elsewhere. Did.

"I'm in an era where teachers can hardly teach, so I want them to train themselves."

When asked from an elementary school student, "Where do I go to receive guidance from Mr. Ichiro?", "If you do not become a full-time member of a particular school, you can go anywhere, so you have to tell me to come." I was answering.

After that, three of the 180 teams from the three Tokai prefectures who participated in the tournament were awarded the top three teams, and Ichiro won a medal for each one and fought well.

Takaki Fukuda, a sixth grader of the Yamanote Youth Baseball Club in Toyota City, who won the championship, said, "I want to receive baseball from Ichiro, so I want to continue playing baseball."

"Words" of the last awards ceremony

"Every year, I've been telling you what you felt in that season, in that year, and in front of you, but this is the message for everyone at the last Ichiro Cup. Thank you, thank you. ''

"I retired from active duty this spring. At that time, the" Ichiro Cup "came to the forefront. What to do. I've been telling everyone what I felt during the season as active duty, but I can do that. I couldn't deal with that, which led to this decision. "

"I've been here as a professional baseball player for nine years in Japan and nineteen years in the United States, rather than the season of Koto, and I wanted to tell everyone something."

"I have two points. I don't know if everyone will continue to play baseball, but the other day I received a training session on the qualification system for student baseball, and the pass / fail was in February. You may meet in a place, so I want everyone to keep playing baseball. "

"What I felt at that time was that the position of the teaching side seems to be difficult. There seems to be a situation where students seem to have a stronger power relationship than teachers.
I often think about this now and how to educate if I'm worried. Although it may be the flow of the times, there are many important things that can be learned from teachers.
I want you to take humble feelings.
Middle schools, high schools, and universities that seem to be harder to educate. I think that's very important now, as you want to experience yourself before you become a member of society and train yourself there.
In an age where it is difficult to teach strictly, who would educate? Ultimately, you have to educate yourself.
I think that we have entered such an era.
I didn't think so because I had a tough teacher.
I want you to remember that is important now. ''

"Another point, this is also the era. It is an era where various things can be immediately remembered as information, immediately with a mobile phone.
It seems that the world has become somewhat smaller, but I tried to go to the United States at the age of 27 and 28 and challenged the major leagues, but when I go out I can understand for the first time, if I examine it, I can understand as knowledge Even so, there are a lot of things that you can only understand when you go there, but it was a narrow world of baseball.
After all, I got out and was hurt, there was a lot of fun, and I had a lot to study.
I want you to experience it and not feel it as knowledge.
So, if I interpret it myself, I think that if I go outside, I feel that the country where I grew up is wonderful.
I would like everyone to do that in the future if they have that kind of experience.
I realize that what has always been the norm is never the norm.
I want everyone to experience events that change their values.
It's different from the usual season message, but what I feel after 28 years of life. I want you to remember. ''