Official 2014 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

..."Twerking is next."

 

Please, I don't want fights in this forum, specially today that is my 26th birthday

 

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To watch Live (now !) Kozue Ando (she's a starter) amd maybe Asuna Tanaka later (sub) with Frankfurt at Bayern Munich's ground : http://tv.dfb.de/video/frauen-bundesliga-fc-bayern-muenchen-1-ffc-frankfurt-live/8055/

FFC in black, Bayern in red.

 

Ando scored ! 24' 0-1 for Frankfurt...

 

Happy Birthday, KAP!!!

 

Ando's goal

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Well you can go further..... I think we can safely dismiss it. After all, where is there any money?

Just arrived at work and only came here to post this from Twitter, for you AndG:
Al descanso en Bundesliga, un tanto de Kozue Andō está dando la victoria por la mínima al Frankfurt en Múnich. 0-1.

 

Ando's goal was not enough. Bayern equalized in the last minutes after a big mistake by Schumann (FFC's GK). 1-1n full time. Frankfurt has probably lost the title today.

 

Well, she let the ball out of her hands many times in the game, but as I've just written in my report for FdE, I think that Frankfurt can be angry with... themselves. They playe with too much self-importance when leading 0-1 against a weak Bayern. Even Ando played "easily" if you see what I mean. They paid the prize at the end...

 

Yui Hasegawa - I think this was made after the U19 AFC but before the U17 WWC. Personally I think Sugita has more chance of making the senior Nadeshiko in the future, but I think Hasegawa was the player of tournament in the U17 WWC.

 

Many say so, but I'm not certain about it.
Certainly Yui is small, but I'm a little bit suspicious about the popular concept that a small player could nothing good as she would be physically overwhelmed in the senior world stage.
It may be true, but wouldn't it be partially true?
She is much superior to ordinary big players in the sense of football.

 

Does Ando play as a DMF?

 

Not exactly... Well.. Frankfurt played in 4-1-4-1, with Behringer as the DMF, Kozue being one of the second 4 players line, along with Garefrekes, Marozsan and Alushi. But amongst those 4, she was clearly the most defensive and came along Behringer each time FFC turned into 4-2-3-1. But most of the time, Frankfurt played rather high and dominated the MF, so, it's not obvious to say that she really played "defensive". I had the feeling that she won back the ball most of the time at 50 or 60 meters from her own goal-line. She had a good game all in all but, as I said, she was like her teammates, obviously thinking that nothing could happen to the team. Bayern was playing without Hagen (who missed a lot) and Lotzen was almost invisible, so offensively they were only dangerous on set-pieces. But.... a game is never over 'till it's over. A Nadeshiko, more than anyone, should have known it

 

But the Bundesliga is only 2/3 done? Frankfurt leads on goal difference, but Potsdam has a game in hand (7 v 6 remain). They will play each other, and both also have games v Wolfsburg.

 

She is well known! I am sure AndG will remember.... back in 2010 she played with Atlanta Beat, and was team-mate to Miyama and Yamaguchi - and these games we could usually see live - we used to moan at her because she is a pure striker, that would accept passes but never supply. Incidentally other FWs on the same team included Monica Ocampo of Mexico (now team-mate of Kiryu) and I think the more famous Ramona Bachmann of Switzerland NT - who were equally frustrating for the same reasons. The team finished last.

Actually Yuki injured the GK's hand, not her face. You can see amateur video that includes the incident HERE - it does look dangerous but at 14:50 mins you can see the GK walk off clutching her hand.

 

Probably, the YT account's name is dcbrsk120.....I had before.
This video is exactly the same as what I have uploaded at the time. Because Yui's high school life scenes are cut finely.
I'm glad the video is still on YouTube.

 

Well, doesn't "Nana" mean "7" (which is Kiryu's shirt number) in addition of her first name ?

 

She seems a manga character Seven from Area no Kishi

 

'official' highlights from the FA are up..

 

... A random argument brakes out within the Nadeshiko thread...

Arguments within the US women's forum though...