Book Review: Virtue Is Not Alone - Kazuo Imanishi, the Nurturer of Japanese Soccer - (Slightly) False Advertising

I'm a middle-aged guy, Bad.

Virtue Is Not Alone: Kazuo Imanishi, the Nurturer of Japanese Soccer
Motohiko Kimura

After reading Mr. Kimura's book 'The Men Who Created the Japan Pro-Baseball Players Association' and being deeply impressed, I was looking for his next book to read when I came across this one.
(Following the news of Mr. Imanishi's passing on April 14th, it was introduced in a newspaper column.)

Mr. Imanishi was from Hiroshima. He was a person who made a great contribution to the establishment of Sanfrecce Hiroshima. His journey in Hiroshima—from player to coach to club management, and then to the Association's Technical Committee—is, well, a 'really great story'.

And the problem is what happened after that.
He was asked to use his virtue to become the president of FC Gifu, but the story from here on is brutal.
Because he came from elsewhere, he didn't know the local circumstances. He had no acquaintances among the local power brokers. The club staff who worked directly with him followed him because of his character, but the local government gave him the cold shoulder.
In the end, the league's licensing office and the local government ganged up to trip him up, and they threw him out of the club while leaving him saddled with the club's debts, for which he had provided a personal guarantee!!!
He was, of course, not treated as a distinguished contributor, nor was it just a simple firing; it was a treatment designed to thoroughly sever ties and drive him out. Unbelievable...

And the real essence of the story starts here!
The author, Mr. Kimura, gathered information through interviews and challenged the person in charge of the licensing office at the time to a confrontational interview!
I don't think he thought he had a chance of winning. Even so, he probably couldn't let it go without confronting them and making the results public.
Looking at it another way, he's a 'troublesome person.' But I can empathize.
It's not right to just leave bad people alone.

I don't know what happened to Mr. Imanishi's debts (that he was saddled with in Gifu) after that, but I feel like I've read an incredible book.

I'm currently working while observing various problems at my company, but will I ever be able to bite back hard at bad people like Mr. Kimura in my life?
There is one person I want to take down before I quit the company, and I have caught the tail end of their wrongdoing(?), but I'm struggling with what to do given my position.
It was a book that gave me a lot to think about.