After being made head coach of the national soccer team last August, Hiroshi Ohashi's first order was for the grown-ups to get off the pitch.
"I could not distinguish between the coaches and the parents and teachers who were swarming all over the field during practice," said Ohashi. He commands the Japanese squad in the World Football Championships, sponsored by the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability.
"I had to start from changing the way of thinking of those around the players," said the 42-year-old former junior high school teacher.