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2004.07.31
Zico under a lucky star - Asian Cup 2004 quarter final


      Tamada      Suzuki

           Nakamura   
 Alex                    Kaji

      Endo     Fukunishi

 Nakazawa  Miyamoto   Tanaka

          Kawaguchi(GK)
Asian Cup 2004 Japan Basic formation
Japan beat Jordan by penalty shoot out and will have a semi final with Bahrain on 3rd August. In penalty, first two kickers of Japan failed in Beckham-like-way but goalkeeper Kawaguchi saved and caught the slim chance.
Japan 1. - Jordan 1. (4 PK 3)
Japan --xxx-x
Jordanxxx----

As we have found nothing interesting or new in this tournament, same is true for Japan that the quality of Japanese team has not been improved after 2002 world cup. Zico's tactics and management have not been understood by national supporters yet. Zico has faced several fatal crisis of being fired and this was the biggest one but... I wonder if Zico is the luckiest coach in Asia? It is difficult to find reasonable factors of changes from Zico's management.

http://www.asiancup2004.com/
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