Tonight Ajax has to stop the Japanese dribbler Kaoru Mitoma. Mitoma has a letter degree on the subject of dribbling. The Japanese really made his breakthrough in Europe this season.
Before playing football in Europe, he graduated from Tsukuba University in 2018. So his thesis topic was dribbling. For example, he had players dribble with a camera on and gathered information from an Olympic hurdler. “The best players don’t look at the ball. They look in front of them, without looking at their feet. That’s the difference,” was the conclusion.