2010.03.14
A Victory Relieves the Stadium, Urawa Res

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.

2010.03.06
Kashima, Good Start for 2010 J.League

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.

2010.02.28
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

http://www.goal2002.com/2010/acl.html
http://www.the-afc.com/en/schedule-a-results