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[DOWNLOAD VIDEO] SHINJI KAGAWA AND HIROSHI KIYOTAKE vs 55 JAPANESE KIDS

Manchester United’s Shinji Kagawa and Nurnberg’s Hiroshi Kiyotake teamed up on a local Japanese TV game show against 55 kids in Kyokugen 2013.

Kyokugen originates from Japan and simply translates into "extreme utmost limit". In the Art of Fighting series, Kyokugen Karate is described as a deadly martial art that can only be taught with a mind that focuses on self-defense.

The game begins with Kagawa and Kiyotake successfully taking on 33 kids and scoring. The first set of kids were split into 3 goalkeepers and 30 outfield players.

After scoring, a further 22 kids were added to the initial 33 already on the pitch bringing the total number of opponents facing the professional football pair to 55. This batch was split into 5 goalkeepers and 50 outfield players. Guess what happened?

This video has received over a thousand likes on youtube but close to FIVE HUNDRED “thumbs down”. The most common complaint is that they should have let the kids win. Who cares! The video clip is comedic and everyone seemed to be having a good time. I reckon Kagawa and Kiyotake would have been required to perform a Seppuku or Harakiri on the football pitch if they dared to lose.

“Seppuku (切腹?, “stomach-cutting”) is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai bushido honour code, seppuku was either used voluntarily by samurai to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely suffer torture), or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses, or performed for other reasons that had brought shame to them. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion.”

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