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It was a phenomenon that Urawa Reds brought the new ACL title to Japan for the first time in 1997. Before that ACL was said to be a duty or penalty for the J.League champions. What is now? ACL for Japan is over in early May.
http://www.goal2002.com/2010/acl.html
http://www.goal2002.com/2009/acl.html
http://www.goal2002.com/2008/acl.html
http://www.goal2002.com/2007/acl.html
| AFC Champions League 2010 R16 (EAST) | |||||||||||||
| 2010.05.11 | Tue | Seongnam (KOR) | vs | Gamba Osaka | 3 | - | 0 | (0 | - | 0) | Tancheon | ||
| 2010.05.11 | Tue | Suwon (KOR) | vs | Beijing (CHN) | 2 | - | 0 | (1 | - | 0) | Suwon | ||
| 2010.05.12 | Wed | Kashima Antlers | vs | Pohang (KOR) | 0 | - | 1 | (0 | - | 1) | Kashima | ||
| 2010.05.12 | Wed | Adelaide (AUS) | vs | Jeonbuk (KOR) | 2 | ET | 3 | (2 | FT | 2) | Hindmarsh | ||
2010.05.10
"I am not interested in the selection", said I.
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The concept of this selection is difficult for me to understand, but it seems to be difficult from any angle. Offensive, or defensive? Not the coach's favorites, but not accepted by public? Depended on a specific club, or based on the current performance? Osim's succession, or the coach's cultivaton?
In 2010, the team continues to fail developing themselves in training matches. This was the last chance for the coach to enjoy the support from people, but he seems to reject. I am a man who think if we share the same dream together, it can support players. However, he goes into more difficult way by himself.
The only thing clear is that players can change it. On the pitch in this June, you can do that.
Goalkeepers : Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus), Eiji Kawashima (Kawasaki Frontale), Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Jubilo Iwata)Defenders : Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos), Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus), Yuichi Komano (Jubilo Iwata), Daiki Iwamasa (Kashima Antlers), Yasuyuki Konno (FC Tokyo), Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo), Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers)
Midfielders : Shunsuke Nakamura (Yokohama F. Marinos), Junichi Inamoto (Kawasaki Frontale), Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka), Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale), Daisuke Matsui (Grenoble, FRA), Yuki Abe (Urawa Reds), Makoto Hasebe (Wolfsburg, GER), Keisuke Honda (CSKA Moscow, RUS)
Forwards : Keiji Tamada (Nagoya Grampus), Yoshito Okubo (Vissel Kobe), Kisho Yano (Albirex Niigata), Shinji Okazaki (Shimizu S-Pulse), Takayuki Morimoto (Catania, ITA)
2010.05.01
Shimizu beat Urawa to Keep the Lead
Shimizu 2. Urawa 1. 1st May Shizuoka Stadium
League leader Shimizu beat 3rd place Urawa by 90+3 minute's goal in their home in fornt of 38,000 spectators. The audience includes about 10,000 Urawa supporters who went a 500 km round trip from Urawa. The match has heigh tension and is even. Both team prooved their strong points. The reason Shimizu made the match is their collectivity in defence and the quailty of strikers positioning. I am happy to see a such quality match and unhappy with the result.
Another interst in the match is Ono Shinji. Ono, born in Shimizu and has been the idol of Urawa. As Ono had belonged to Feyenoord and VfL Bochum, this is the first season for him to break off the relationship with Urawa. Today, Shinji performed several charming balls, help Shimizu players a lot and do not bring the match end by himself... As Shinji is said to change Shimizu to lead the league, he is the way he was.
2010.04.29
Kashima and G-Osaka. Final 16 of ACL
On 27th and 28th April, they played final match of 2010 ACL group league.
Kashima Antlers wins Group F and Gamba Osaka runs up as 2nd of Group G.
Kawasaki Frontale had a chance if they could win in Beijing, but failed.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima couldn't win back from first three strait defeat.
Korean four out of four clubs qualified. Chinese one club out of four, and Aussie one out of two qualified. It is notable that matches in China had 20,272 audiences in average for 12 matches, while 8,399 in Japan and 6,546 in Korea. As the number may not be precice in China match, away matches in China become more difficult, year by year.
| AFC Champions League 2010 Group E | |||||||||
| PT | GP | W | D | L | GD | (GF | GA) | ||
| Seongnam Ilhwa FC (KOR) | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 6 | |
| Beijing Guoan (CHN) | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | |
| Kawasaki Frontale | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 8 | |
| Melbourne Victory (AUS) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -7 | 3 | 10 | |
| AFC Champions League 2010 Group F | |||||||||
| PT | GP | W | D | L | GD | (GF | GA) | ||
| Kashima Antlers | 18 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 3 | |
| Jeonbuk Motors (KOR) | 12 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 6 | |
| Changchun Yatai FC (CHN) | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 7 | |
| Persipura Jayapura (IDN) | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -25 | 4 | 29 | |
| AFC Champions League 2010 Group G | |||||||||
| PT | GP | W | D | L | GD | (GF | GA) | ||
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings (KOR) | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 4 | |
| Gamba Osaka | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 5 | |
| Singapore Armed Forces FC (SIN) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -10 | 6 | 16 | |
| Henan Jianye (CHN) | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -5 | 3 | 8 | |
| AFC Champions League 2010 Group H | |||||||||
| PT | GP | W | D | L | GD | (GF | GA) | ||
| Adelaide United (AUS) | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | |
| Pohang Steelers (KOR) | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 11 | |
| Shandong Luneng FC (CHN) | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 5 | 8 | |
2010.04.24
Ciro Ferrara Finds a New Job in Japan?
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2010.04.19
Urawa Celebrates 1 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0 Home Audiences
Urawa Reds 3 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale. 18 April, 2010
Urawa Reds announced that their home audiences reached 10,017,524 which makes Reds the first club to have 10 million spectators after the victory of league leading match against Kawasaki Frontale.
"I am sure it was worth the admission fee people had to pay to come to the stadium to watch", said Volker Finke. Yes, it was.
| J.League Division 1 | 8,228,663 | 291 |
| 2004 Championship | 59,715 | 1 |
| J.League Division 2 | 338,457 | 20 |
| Nabisco Cup | 1,038,781 | 58 |
| AFC Champions League | 343,789 | 8 |
| Total | 10,009,405 | 378 |
| 10,000,000 audiences of Urawa Reds | ||
As club didn't announce the detail statistic, I counted from
my own data. Mmmm, there is a slight difference.. (^^;)
2010.04.11
Football under the Sakura Bloom
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11 Apr. 2010. Yokogawa Musashino FC 0. Ryutsukeizai Univ FC 0. in Musashino
In Japan, many Sakura spots are known and the stadium is no exception. Musashino city has best Sakura boulevard that they played under the beautiful blossomes today. My neighboring town has 3rd division team Yokogawa Musashino FC. Last year, Musashino won the 2nd place of JFL. As they have not declared their will of J.League join, they has not been promoted to J2 and choose playing in JFL this season. The match is quite intersting that each team employs simple 4-4-2 system and possesses thier ball carefully. The absence of strikers are the common challenge of our country.
http://www.goal2002.com/2010/jfl.html
2010.04.04
Shimizu and Promoted Sendai Get off a Good Start
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| Cezar Sampaio joins to Ventforet Kofu? No, he serves Brazilian foods at a stadium shop in Kofu, jsgoal.jp reports. |
Gamba Osaka struggles. 2008 Asian champions draws third, loses twice without a victory. As new striker Hirai appears players seem not to be best form. Two years of Emperor's cup victory with ACL champions make greater fatigue. (Iwata 4. G-Osaka 3. 4th Mar)
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2010.03.20
Two Returned Yokohama Legends Changing Marinos. Yokohama 4. Kawasaki 0. in Yokohama
Kimura Kazushi (coach) and Nakamura Shunsuke (midfielder). Both are
known as typical "No. 10" of Nissan - Yokohama Marinos and are legends of
the team. As Marinos developed running soccer in last season, we thought
the coming-back of two stars didn't fit in the team.
The match today is far from worries that we see simple and organized tactics on the pitch. Nakamura scored and assisted another goal. Current No. 10 Yamase scored twice. I must add that oals today are brought from fast pass exchange and higher motivation for shots from the middle range. This is the happy day for all Yokohama fans.
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2010.03.14
A Victory Relieves the Stadium, Urawa Reds 1. FC-Tokyo 0. in Saitama
Brilliant start for promoted Vegalta Sendai, Kawasaki Frontale follows. They played first two matches of the season and each club won at least one points from two matches. We can dream of a good season because Kashima Antlers proove their high quality of football, Yokohama F-Marinos attracted us with Nakamura "coming back" Shunsuke, Urawa starts revealing their "ball oriented football". Promoted clubs are alive. Cerezo Osaka welcomed Gamba Osaka and 37,860 came stadium to celebrate their come back. Average attendance of first two matches is 22,598 for J1 and 8003 for J2. Numbers are developed compared to ones of season 2009. We feel happy with packed stadiums.
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2010.03.06
Kashima, Good Start for 2010 J.League. Kashima 2. Urawa 0. in Kashima
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Kashima proved their high-quality finished form from the opening game. Urawa Reds wished to revenge for the defeat in their home on the last match of 2009 to let Kashima win, but Kashima still gets a good lead. Their play has no waste and they know the time to play.
This is the introduction of Volker Finke's second year of Urawa Reds.
Hiroshima's talent Kashiwagi is joined and they make progress in the
posesstion soccer, I believe.
"This match is very dense and has high quality. Two teams presented
interesting match", said Finke after the match.
I am afraid that some
supporters start stopping to understand these objective analysis,
of course I will give support for Volker's team management.
"Reds wish to go on their style that made this match dynamic and interesting",
said home team coach Oswaldo Oliveira. He followed "I told my players that
we only have to use Reds' style against them". On the contrary, Finke's
command was quite aggressive that in the second half he threw a striker in
a defensive midfiler out, and another attaker in a stopper out.
This was a strong message from Finke. I am very intersted in
when will Volker's boys produce mass goals.
| 2010.03.06 | Sat | 16:04 | Kashima | vs | Urawa | 2 | - | 0 | 35,251 | Kashima |
2010.02.28
Nakamura Returns to Yokohama F-Marinos
Yokohama announced Nakamura Shunsuke's return
Yokohama F-Marinos
announced Nakamura -Japanese No.10- Shunsuke's return to his home. He
has moved to Espanyol after the 08-09 season in Glasgow, but only
after the success on the pre-season match against Liverpool, he has
lost his place in Spain.
"I has been thinking of my return to J.League in the past
one-and-half year. It is only Marinos for me to be back",
said Shunsuke. "The move at this moment is difficult, but
as the World Cup is coming I wish to play in the environment
that I can play."
"I don't grow without knocking myself against the wall.
When I dropped from the World Cup squad in 2002, and when
I lost the position in Italy, I spring back myself stronger
from that"
The 2010 season starts from next Saturday.
1997-2002 Yokohama F-Marinos / 146 matches 33 goals
2002-2005 Reggina (ITA) / 81 matches 11 goals
2005-2009 Celtic (SCO) / 128 matches 29 goals
2009-2010 Espanyol (ESP) 12 matches no goal
2010.02.24
Season 2010 Started with Asia
AFC Champions League 2010 Results
| 2010.02.23 | Tue | 19:00 | Seongnam(KOR) | vs | Kawasaki-F | 2 | - | 0 | (1 | - | 0) | 4,983 | Tancheon |
| 2010.02.23 | Tue | 19:00 | Kashima | vs | Changchun (CHN) | 1 | - | 0 | (1 | - | 0) | 5,757 | Kashima |
http://www.goal2002.com/2010/acl.html
http://www.the-afc.com/en/schedule-a-results
2010.02.14
Good-bye Okasa-san. 0-0 w/ China, 1-3 w/ Korea in East Asia Championship
10 men vs 10 men match ended with disappointing lose with Korea.
Japan finished as the third place of the East Asia Tournament.
Mr. Okada's credit was that he accepted to be a national coach after the sudden stroke of Mr. Ivica Osim and he tried to follow Osim's concept. Sad to say to Okada, although he followed Osim's way (it was needed from Japanese soccer family), it was not his own approach. Okada was good at reaction soccer that kills oppeonent's feature. This soccer from national team seems to be from assistant coach Oki Takeshi came from Ventforet Kofu.
The real reason why I use the word "good-bye" is that he seems not to be preparing the World Cup game, but only to win this East Asian cup. He should have let player known that this was the good preparation for South Africa, and he should have given opportunities to sub players. It is very difficult to play with Mr. Okada. Thank you, but the leader should have kept his way and prepare in long-range.
Mr. Okada after the loss from Korea in Tokyo Kokuritsu Stadium
Japan's coach Osim has stroke
http://www.goal2002.com/2007/t/20071116.html
Okada gets official nod from JFA
http://www.goal2002.com/2007/t/20071204.html
East Asian Football Championship 2010
2010.02.07
2010 J.League Pre Season Transfer
Urawa Reds Tulio's course was the heilight of this season's transfer.
He has been complaining about Urawa with Volker Finke's developping
plan after his contract expires. He decided to join Dragan
Stojkovic's Nagoya Grampus. Urawa would rather be down-to-earth than
care about name and leave it to Nagoya. Urawa, thanking for Tulio with
happy days, goes on building a new style. While, Nagoya can be a big
club, or be another "Man City"?
Two international stars came back to Japan.
Inamoto Jun-ichi, spending
nine seasons in Europe (Arsenal, Fulham, WBA, Carfiff City,
Galatasaray, Frankfurt, and Rennes), finds new job in Kawasaki Frontale.
Ex-Urawa's icon, Ono Shinji returns to his home-town Shimizu.
After his second glory with Urawa, he had joined with Vfl Bochum.
Two intarnational 30-years-old players put J.League up this season.
In Europe, only Honda Keisuke (ex Nagoya) makes a good show. After the successful years in Netherlands 2nd division, he made a 9M Euro contract with CSKA Moscow. Nakamura Shunsuke in Espanyol still can not perform his best play in Celtic, said to be back to Japan, stays in Spain to prepare the World Cup.
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Inamoto Kawasaki Frontale |
Ono Shimizu S-pulse |
| 2010 J.League pre-season transfer | ||
| Tanaka Marcus Tulio (DF) | to Nagoya | from Urawa |
| Inamoto Jun-ichi (MF) | to Kawasaki-F | from Rennais (FRA) |
| Ono Shinji (MF) | to Shimizu | from Bochum (GER) |
| Kashiwagi Yosuke (MF) | to Urawa | from Hiroshima |
| Nishikawa Shusaku (GK) | to Hirishima | from Oita |
| Nakayama Masashi (FW) | to Sapporo (J2) | from Iwata |
| Honda Keisuke (MF) | to CSKA Moscow (RUS) | from VVV-Venlo (NED) |
2010.02.06
No Fever! Japan Scoreless with China
Japan draw with China 6 February in Tokyo. The match is the opening of East Asian Football Championship 2010. The cup has been played since 2003 and Japan is not good at this cup.
East Asian Football Championship: 2010 Japan, 2008 China, 2005 Korea, 2003 JapanOn 2nd of this month, Japan invited Venezuela to play friendly in Oita. They failed to score there as well. South Africa is coming and we have registered the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids. But we have forgotten the way to put a fever out from soccer family to Japanese society. Matches on Thursday and Sunday are very important for us.
2010.02.03
J.League announced 2010 Fixtures
J1 J2
Nabisco Cup
2010.01.31
2010 Japanese Football
Japan National Team
WE'RE OFF IN JAPAN. THEY ARE CAMPING IN THE SOTHERN DISTRICT. THE LEAGUE SCHEDULE WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON 3RD FEBRUARY. THE SEASON IS COMING SOON.2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group E
14 June
Japan vs 
Cameroon19 June
Netherlands vs Japan24 June
Denmark vs JapanClubs
J.League Division 16 March to 16 May - (World Cup break) - 17 July to 4 December
Yamazaki Nabisco Cup (League Cup)
March to November, Final on 3 November
The Emperor's Cup
September to the final on 1st January 2011
AFC Champions League
February to November, Final on 12th or 13th
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