2012/18 Atsuto Uchida @ Schalke 04 (GER/CL)

Is that Mike?


Also Yuji went to the bench meanwhile? He looks "pumped"

 

Anyhow, I begin to worry. He's back in Germany since few weeks but there is still not the slightest date of return on the horizon. Are you really confident for WC ?

 

Hara claims that Uchida, Yoshida and Hasebe's rehab programs are on schedule, so....

 

Club update in English, from a couple of days ago.

 

kicker, April 4th, print edition (sorry for my English):

 

Hmm, well... it's easy to see why Uchida is the ikemen here.
Hope his recovery is going well.

 

Been a month now. has he recovered yet?

 

Nah. Still on the sideline.



This pic's from S04's today training. He did individual training.
So he came back to training early April. One month later, nada changes. He's still run alone. And the club didn't say anything about his injury situation for a month. I do blame them.

 

It will be the second missed WC for him... So sad...

 

Why "blame"?

 

For them not bringing any information up to date on his injury. They're supposed to do that. They said JNT fans not to be worry about it a month ago. What if a month later, he still makes no progress?

 

He was in South Africa and didn't play cuz he was injured. Now it happens again.

 

Nah, there is no obligation whatsoever. Schalke can decide themselves what they make public to fans, and what they communicate to respective NTs.

 

Wrong, he wasn't injured, Konno and Komano were ahead of him in the picking order.

Konno was the one injured, and Komano took his place in the starting line up.

 

Komano was Uchida sub and Konno was out after Ivory Coast match wherever Okada would use him as fb/cb/dmf.

 

Well, you are wrong again.

Uchida was the starting RB for Japan until the game vs Korea.

Okada then saw Uchida isn't good defensively, so he made Konno his first choice RB, Komano second and Uchida third, so when Konno suffered from an injury, Komano was the one to start for Japan.

Uchida wasn't injured, it was only Okada's conservative approach that cause him to lose his starting spot.

 

That was Ucchi's South Africa trauma...

 

Uchida probably would have started in South Africa but he had ongoing fitness issues at the time (not mechanical injuries i.e. muscle/tendon/bone) - something more physiological where he had trouble getting through 90 minutes without fits of puking all over the pitch.

 

Ucchi had altitude problems.

 

And Saku is the winner.

As Saku said, then Komano played.

 

From what i remember, uchida had altitude sickness, he cant stand the low oxygen atmosphere in South Africa, he was there, but didn't play.

 

Saku bringing the actual facts.
There's a first time for everything.

If Uchida is fit, his haters will end up looking like idiots, as ever. 100% boss player.

 

Schalke not thinking about signing competition for Ucchi anymore, according to kicker.