How good was the JNT U-17's defence under Yoshitake? What do you think can be done to teams who park the bus?
Sweden parked the bus against us (possession 25%), and we weren't physical enough to succeed incursions in their box. We should have tried to shoot from a long way.
Reposted from J3 thread: The J-League U-22 Selection has announced its initial player pool consisting of 89 J1 and J2 players. http://www.j3league.jp/news/2014/02/24/20140224-1.html 16 players will be called up for each J3 matchday. Players must be born after 1 January 1992, be under contract to a J1 or J2 team, and hold Japanese nationality. New players can be registered until March 28, or during the summer window of July 18 - August 15. Some key names: Naomichi Ueda (Kashima) Andrew Kumagai (Marinos) Naoki Kawaguchi, Goson Sakai, Musashi Suzuki (Niigata) Hideki Ishige (Shimizu) Ryota Tanabe, Nikki Havenaar (Nagoya) Takaharu Nishino (Gamba) Gakuto Notsuda, Takuma Asano (Hiroshima) Tsuyoshi Miyaichi (Shonan) Shoya Nakajima (Toyama)
Perhaps not, but if their clubs felt that they were that important then they would have been exempted like Iwanami, Kushibiki, or Minamino, who are not listed.
Notsuda was very good this week-end and seems in great form (scored many goals in recents friendlies). I would be so disappointed to see him in J3 while he did a correct last season in J1. I hope that players who never play in their clubs (Akino, Kida for example) will have priority.
edit: Training camp squad for the Asian Games announced. Japan is currently the reigning champion of the competition. The games start in September 14 and end in October 3, in South Korea GK: SUGIMOTO Daichi - Kyoto Sanga NIEKAWA Ayumi - Jubilo Iwata (was keeper at the 2011 U17 WC vs Argentina) DF: ENDO Wataru - Shonan Bellmare MATSUBARA Ken - Albirex Niigata YAMANAKA Ryosuke - JEF United KAMEKAWA Masashi - Shonan Bellmare ITO Yukitoshi - Kashima Antlers NARA Tatsuki - Consadole Sapporo MUROYA Sei - Meiji University (was a LB @ 2011 U17 WC) IWANAMI Takuya - Vissel Kobe (U17 WC 2011) UEDA Naomichi - Kashima Antlers (U17 WC 2011) is Nishino injured... ? MF: OSHIMA Ryota - Kawasaki Frontale HARAKAWA Riki - Ehime FC YAJIMA Shinya - Urawa Reds IDE Haruya - JEF Chiba KANAMORI Takeshi - Avispa Fukuoka NOZAWA Hideyuki - FC Tokyo NAKAJIMA Shoya - Kataller Toyama KIDA Takuya - Yokohama F. Marinos TOYOKAWA Yuta - Kashima Antlers AKINO Hiroki - Kashiwa Reysol (U17 WC 2011) YOSHINO Kyohei - Tokyo Verdy FW: ARANO Takuma - Consadole Sapporo SUZUKI Musashi - Albirex Niigata NOTSUDA Gakuto - Sanfrecce Hiroshima Is Arano even a foward? Not that Notsuda is. welp. Not sure who's going to score goals here and not sure why Ishige is not there since he can't play at the AFC U19 anyway
Nozawa, Nakajima, Musashi Suzuki and Kida were also members of the Japan squad at the 2001 U-17 WC. I think some players like Nishino and Ishige are obliged to their club teams, and their club teams decide against let them go to this tournament, and the JFA didn't press their club teams to release them as the U-21 NT already has good if not better alternatives.
better alternatives to the best players in their roles ? hmm I don't know... but yeah it's not an important tournament anyway... I'm very much confused as to how the team is supposed to play if he has to be subbed for some reason
oh really? oh my bad then. =) edit: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140805-00000054-mai-socc yeah you're right. Edited previous post
Wataru Endo was really impressive in J2 this season. 5 goals for a defender And Gakuto it's a offensive midfielder, not forward. I think Takuma Asano (19 years) it's a better forward than Arano
heh it's hard to be optimistic when the same striker who did nothing last time is the only one called up for the camp. I also hope Yoshida finds the squad some way...
Not the final squad (and fortunately !) but with this poor coach, I'm not even sure we'll qualify for olympics games. Seriously. When I see our recents Asian Cup U19 and U22 disasters... Teguramori = Yoshida = incompetent. Yoshitake should coach every young team from U16 to U23. Or let Aguirre take charge of the olympic team.
Take in mind that we always had to deal with South Korea in the previous editions, this time we have them in the group, so failing to beat Iraq or whoever comes would be quite disappointing.
That's what we did in the lasts Asian Cup U19 and U22. In 2010, our U19 lost vs SK after leading 2-0. It's a fail too.
How you qualify for 2016 AFC U-22 Championship[? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics#Men.27s_tournament My national team missed any chance to be at Olympics. Only 4 team from Europe. It seems Italy will stay home.
I purposedly didn't talk about U22 because it's a bit of a different story. Iraq won the competition and it didn't let you qualify for anything. Next one it gets serious because we'll have to do good or either it's no Rio at all. I had kind of removed the atrocity that was 2012 U19 though so thanks for reminding me I guess it'll be revenge time. If we win the group instead it'll likely be vs north korea. What do you mean? It should be the same as usual, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_AFC_U-22_Championship_qualification
The U21 beat Avispa Fukuoka 2-0, goals by Oshima and Iwanami. Fun fact, Musashi played most of the game. We have to get ready for it.