Miroku Darai

Name: Miroku Darai

Age: 19

Blood type: B

Miroku Darai (蛇だ来らい 弥み勒ろく, Darai Miroku?) is a former member of the Japan U-20 team. He played for Spain's FC Barcha during the Neo Egoist League.

Appearance:

Darai is a dark-skinned and average-height soccer player. He also has black hair and yellow eyes.

Personality:

Darai seems to be a Buddhist, calling the field yin and yang.

Abilities:

Archetype No-Nonsense Full Back: A full back who knows their strengths and their weaknesses, focusing predominantly on their defensive duties and rarely joining the offensive.

Skills:

Off-the-Ball Movements: A term used to describe the moments where players are not in possession of the ball. Darai's off-the-ball movements are used defensively; through anticipation and quick movement, he is able to decipher where the opponent is moving before reaching there first to shut them down. Predictions: He talks about the "smell" of his opponent's movements, which may indicate an intuitive instinct for the off-the-ball movements of his mark. His off-the-ball movements were so good that he could prevent Eita Otoya from moving past him despite Otoya's speed. His movements also enabled him to extensively manmark Shoei Baro, although he was eventually overcome through sheer physical ability.

Etymology:

His given name, Miroku (弥み勒ろく, Miroku?), is a Japanese word for "Maitreya," referring to his appearance. His surname, Darai (蛇だ来らい, Darai?), means "an incoming snake." Phonetically, it can also refer to ダライ, which is a Japanese loanword from the Dutch word draaibank meaning "lathe." His name can thus be interpreted as "an incoming Maitreya snake." Phonetically, his name can be interpreted as "a Maitreya lathe."

Quotes:

"What?, you on to me next?" to Rin

Trivia:

In Chapter 204, the auction display on page 10 showed Darai with a salary bid of ¥16,000,000 due to an error by the artist, as page 19 showed Darai with a salary bid of ¥15,000,000. As Darai's bid remains as ¥15,000,000 during the Round 4 offers in Chapter 246, this suggests he did not play in the match between FC Barcha vs Paris X Gen. By the end of the Neo Egoist League, Darai got a ¥15,000,000 offer from "Shin-Troy" (シン・トロイ, Shin Toroi?) [6]. Shin-Troy is based on Sint-Truidense V.V..