Former Softbank coach Reio Chikada becomes director of Kyoto University “There is no surprising difference in strength”
Former Softbank Reio Chikada has been appointed as the manager of Kyoto University, which belongs to the Kansai Student Baseball League. A youth director who knows all categories such as high school, university, working people, and professional baseball will take on the challenge of “baseball transformation” by removing the conventional wisdom.
Mr. Chikada participated in Koshien three times as an ace left arm at Hotoku Gakuen, and entered the top 8 in the summer of 2008. In the same year, he was nominated for 3rd place in the draft and joined Softbank, but he was notified that he was out of force in 2012 without participating in one army. After that, he continued to play at JR West, coached at Kyoto University from 2017, and served as assistant director from September last year.
Officially started as a manager, “Kyoto University is often seen as a” weak person “in the league, but I don’t think so. From the time I came to this team, I felt that there was no difference in strength. “.
At Kansai University, Kansai University, Ritsumeikan University, Doshisha University, and Kindai University, which compete in the Kansai Student Baseball League, the so-called “Koshien-gumi”, who left a track record in high school, is enrolled almost every year. When I first started coaching the team, “I felt like I was going to lose, but the players were hungry to win, so I started by changing my consciousness, saying,’If you put out your strength, you can win.'” look back.
There was a big difference in baseball skills and physical abilities compared to other universities, but he felt that “the details of baseball were still rough, so there was a chance to take advantage of it.” To Nine, who had lost his fighting spirit just by looking at the member list of his school, such as Osaka Toin and Meitoku Gijuku, he said, “Let’s concentrate on ourselves. Don’t look at the member list. That’s why we can’t win.” I planted reforms.
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