I have seen comments that this will be the link. http://fr.justin.tv/reds2021 If you have an iPad, the justintv app makes browsing for available links easy.
name：Zhang Yue. hight 186cm birth:1990.9.30 apperance: Chile U20, 2008 ,2010Asian Game. China never be lack of perfect goal keepers.but we don't have a strong enough team these year.
Japan 1-0 USA, FT (84' Takase header). Japan advances to the final. USA to face Sweden in the 3rd place match.
I'm a bit tired of watching us play Sweden. Would have liked to see us against a recouping Germany, but it's not to be. At least Sweden brought some interesting young players to Algarve.
I didn't see my fave Baramaj get in the game today? Has she got any minutes this tournament? Is Neid still holding her out because of the concussion? I think Germany is going to beat Japan in the final with Mbabi firepower and new girl Svenja Huth who I've watched a lot lately in FFC Frankfurt games. Melanie Behringer is to free kicks what Rapinoe wishes she could be.
Don't think it matters as much as it could have. Both teams have used a lot of new faces in the Algarve, so I don't expect this to be a much of a grudge match. Germany took their WWC loss and moved on, and now both teams for various reasons are very different from the ones that faced each other last summer.
While Japan did field some new players against Norway and Denmark, during most of the US match the only real difference to the WC team was Tanaka for Sawa and Fukumoto for Kaihori. Judging from how the Germany players cheered for Japan in the WC final though, I guess they did indeed move on very quickly...
Wellllll, no, not so much. I think losing the World Cup, and the humiliation of doing so in a quarter final on home turf, was not something they shook off quickly. But their grudge was not so much against Japan (who could have been holding a grudge against Japan, after that year the nation went through, and that tournament the team played?) but against LIFE in general and their own performance in particular. I think they were cheering for Japan as their proxies - the Nadeshiko were playing the final that they would have liked to play themselves, against the US. And a 4-0 against Sweden might just have given them enough confidence to rewind the clocks to zero and play the Nadeshiko on Wednesday as if that d***ed quarter final had never happened.
My latest update is online at AllWhiteKit and includes a schedule of the final day of play: http://www.allwhitekit.com/?p=8907 (Short version: all the matches are at 10:15 local time except for the final, which is at 1:10 to accommodate Japanese television.)
Thanks. More highlights of USA v Japan here .... in my opinion, its a USA perspective. They do make it seem as if Japan had only one chance in the 2nd half !
Japan are not the same team they were last year, and the knowledge/confidence they now show when wining say's it all. The players few people knew or respected pre WWC, are now considered some of the top players in the world in their positions, and that's how they now regularly perform. So while Japan had to previously play great to beat Germany, it's no longer the case. Could you honestly imagine Japan winning any game versus one of the elite without Sawa prior to the WWC victory? Not only did they not miss her, they actually performed at their regular standards . Germany have looked in the mirror and gone on a mission to fix the ugliness we all saw last summer. They have a lot of new faces, which has lead to a lot of issues with confidence. They are progressively building towards another shot at WWC glory, but still have a lot of quality young players that won the WWC back in 07 forming the spine of the current team too. When Germany lost to Japan, there was no illusion to the fact that the better team won. It couldn't have been more clear as the whole German side then went on to back Japan to win it all post quarter final. So when they meet again at the Algarve, neither team will play the game to settle scores. Your still watching a final between the winners of the last 3 WWC's , at very different periods of their programs cycle of development.
Oh, obviously I am the "Italian friend" in this beautiful article. Thanks for Borges' highlights, Kevin. And please, don't miss Germany-Japan! I am sure it will be worth watching!
News flash: Sasaki apparently doesn't care about the Algarve Cup, so maybe Germany has a chance to win this after all.
I was reading the Laws of the Game at the FIFA website and it doesn't require a golden goal or a penalty shootout to settle a game, only that it is permissible with the approval of the International Football Association Board. Therefore I would like to know if the Algarve Cup final, if the scores are level at the end of regular time, will be determined in extra time by a golden goal or will extra time go for the full length, at least thirty minutes total, with penalty kicks to decide if at the end of extra time the scores are level.
Well, no one besides the US cares about this tournament. It's a big playground to throw in players you never had the courage to test before. It's a friendly match and Germany compete with their B-squad. You see both teams already have an excuse down pat in the case they'll lose.
If matches are tied at the end of regulation, they go straight to penalty kicks. All Algarve Cup rules are written up in this PDF file: http://www.fpf.pt/fpf/Est_Global.Sh...cheiro&pColumn=ficheiro&pKey=idfich&pId=14064
Not sure if they where invited this time or not. But they have been earlier and declined. The invitied tend to be: First the teams that played last year and then either the best team not in the tournament or a 'returning' team. So not sure if returning Germany (as is the only 'new' team in the top groups compared to 2011) got the invitation direct or after that Brazil declined. 2011 was Japan first year and seeing to the world ranking at the time, I am prety sure Brazil got asked before them. Or it possible Brazil have declined so many time that the organizer do not longer bother to ask.