When Taito Suzuki (Shizuoka, 1978) saw a photograph in the press of Takefusa Kubo with tears in his eyes after his team's elimination from the Tokyo Olympics, he decided to invest in Mallorca, the club where his compatriot played at the time. He did so through his company, Taica Corporation, a Japanese multinational with more than a thousand employees and prominent in the technology sector. Originally from Shizuoka, known as Brazil of Japan Because of his passion for football, Suzuki's life has always been linked to the beautiful game. As a youngster, he played it – "I was like a Japanese Drogba," he says, laughing – and as an adult, he became involved by sponsoring Shimizu S-Pulse, his hometown club, and the team at Xuo University, where he studied.