Twin plays: the incredible similarity of a goal in the Japanese youth championship with that of Ángel Di María in the Qatar 2022 final

Maybe seeing it so many times this year it seems like it appears everywhere, but the truth is that they are carbon copies. The author was not Angelo Di MariaBut Gaku Nawata, a young talent from Kamimura Gakuen High School. On the last day of 2023 he scored a great goal against social media remembered the little gem with which “Fideo” He inflated the net against Hugo Lloris in the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.

The discovery within It was in the match that he faced the school of Kagoshima vs Matsumoto International, as part of the 102nd Japan High School Football Tournament, an annual competition bringing together high school-aged players. The type of tournaments in which, in the fiction that became popular in Argentina, Oliver Atom and his Supercampeones teammates played.

The concrete thing is that it is the largest and oldest amateur sports tournament in Japan, bringing together around 48 teams. This December 31st the second round was played, with multiple matches at the same time. One of them was Kamikura Gakuen’s 2-0 win.

At 8′ of the first half the collective play takes place. Even if there were small differences at the beginning, the succession of passes on the right of the pitch brought them to an agreement to the contact between Messi, Julián Álvarez and Mac Allister which led to Di María’s 2-0.

The one who dressed as Angelito on this occasion was Gaku Nawata, who closed the collective show. A few minutes later, in the 24th minute of the first half, Kota Arima scored the second goal.

Nawata has already played for Japan’s Under-17s during the World Cup of the category in Indonesia. Although he did not come on in the 3-1 defeat against Diablito Claudio Echeverri’s Argentina, Nawata started in the round of 16 and scored a goal against Spain, in what was ultimately a 2-1 defeat and elimination of the Japanese.

Almost without respite, Kamimura Gakuen will play again on Tuesday 2 January against Kobe Koryo Gakuen in the round of 16 of an almost lightning-fast tournament. The final will be on January 8th.