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

And I have stranger dreams than that!

Unfortunately no rest for the wicked over here. I'm braving the brunt of snowy two degree weather as I type this.

Stopped by for this...

http://fullbloomfootball.blogspot.com/2014/01/17th-joc-junior-olympics-all-japan.html?m=0

Almost certain again that everyone knows, but I wanted a moment to comment on the obscene scorelines of the Menina and Urawa matches. Jeez...

 

Ah, don't feel too bad for me, I usually love cold weather. It's the movement of today that bugs me more. Having to walk through snow for an hour and into a building for two seconds and then another hour of walking. Good workout, at least

Good point about the opposition, still as someone has been on the bad end of an 11-0 drubbing, getting beat by twenty-five has to be at least fort more types of depressing.

And the conference video, I would pay my life savings to anyone who all of that!

 

"Who can subtitle all of that" ... bad look for my phone keyboard. Sigh...

 

He tried to test young players, but he realized that the gap between experienced players and them were bigger than he had thought.
He says he would be more insistent on victory this year.

 

U-17 JFA Fukushima won the Disney Showcase for the second year in a row 4-2. The replay is here on ESPN3, but I think quite a few of the posters here are geoblocaked.

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index#sport/soccer-futbol/type/replay/

I am about to watch the full replay myself.

 

She asked, "Miyama had been cuter and more lighthearted, but after she had become a captain, she looked more serious. Was this because of the pressure of the captaincy?"

Sasaki answered, "she is playing with some like Ohno pleasantly before the training to cheer all up. Of course she looked feeling responsible for bad results more."

 

Today's results:

Menina 5-1 MITO EIKO
FC Victories 2-1 Albirex Niigata U18
Urawa Reds Youth 6-0 Placer Kobe
Jef Chiba U18 2-0 Norddea Hokkaido

I'm a little bit surprised that Nakamura Mizuki is playing as a FW.

 

You know it!

Thanks for all of the information, blissett. You're right, I just meant when was the next time they played in general. Can't wait for the games to start already.

I know! I love it! Thanks for hooking me up with it, dude

I'll definitely vouch for that!

Happy for her! She looks super pretty in that dress. And her man looks, weirdly, a little like my math teacher.

 

Pretend I didn't say that and keep it our little secret, okay? Wouldn't want the world to think I was anything but angellic

 

I think in many ways, as it stands now, I would prefer it to be a lot of people's years in INAC.

There are a lot of players that see less sunlight than me when I get a new game, that have rarely featured in any part of the depth chart based purely on a single name in that position, namely in the cases of whoever sat behind Ms. Goebel-Yanez and Queen Ji. I think now that there is even some small semblance of an opening, some of those players that didn't get burn last year should at the very least get an opportunity to make an impact.

In the end, we have no way of entirely knowing who will be on any roster in the future though, and a lot of the small cracks in the lineup that players have a chance to burst through now, could be super-glued by the time the teams take to the pitch on opening day, but I do hope that those players get their runs, find their feet quickly and manage to make an impact when and where they are needed.

I guess that applies a lot to players like Ms. Nakada and Ms. Yoko specifically in our case, but it's really a blanket statement league-wide for young and reserve players, seeing the slew of teams are doing some wholesale changes, a lot more players might get the chance to be the "it-girl" come next season. Who steps up and shines is one of many things that has me both curious and excited for 2014.

Sadly, I wasn't around enough when Ms. Kyokawa was at her finest, so I cannot speak for the nuances of her skillset in the of our team. Nor can I really speak on whether she is mentally and physically ready for a full-time starting position, or ready to bear the burden of being a key piece. Really, I think that the latter is one of those paradoxical things that we need and expectation of and yet can't really ever know for sure until someone gets baptized by fire. Statistically, she most likely won't be put in that dramatic of a position, but if she does end up landing there, I certainly hope that she catches fire.

There is a big part of me that hopes that we don't make any big incoming changes and just let the young guns filter into the rotation, whatever team that ends up giving us, and that hopes that those girls come in to their own quickly and become absolute revelations next year. I temper my expectations of reality of course, but a girl can dream.

This brings up an excellent point for downtime though, does anyone have any commentary or expectation for next season based on their teams activity or current lack thereof?

EDIT: My word... the walls of text . I apologize, even though I know that nobody reads me.

 

Blissett.... why would a player perform differently for her club and her NT? She is still the SAME player. And I think Miyama was generally excellent for both.

Well thanks for mentioning me.....looking back, I am not really bothered about the Algarve result - one point: in the Agarve, they played Norway, Germany and Denmark - the two finalists and a semifinalist at the top-class Euro2013.
True, I would prefer though that Sasaki approach the Algarve to win it - but in 2014, will the EU and USA teams do the same? Their time to experiment, as the EU teams in particular have long qualification campaigns.
Also I have a message from Giraffe which seems to believe Japan will play in the La Manga (Spain) Tournament, which seems to be u-23, held just before the Algarve.... look who scored last year for the USA: http://www.ussoccer.com/News/U-23-WNT/2013/03/US-U23-WNT-Opens-Year-With-Victory-Against-Norway.aspx

 

Catching up to Goals per Giraffs' monthly digest:

LC Matchday #9 (10-Aug)
1) Sugita 1st for FC Kibi Charme-Osaka
2) Matsunaga for Iga v Vega
3) Sugita 2nd for FC Kibi Charme-Osaka
Honorable mentions:
none

LC Matchday #10 (8-Sept)
1) Nishikawa for FC Kibi Charme-Chiba (more remarkable even than Kawasumi's famous goal v Sweden, as the interception is mid-air and the GK is not stranded).
2) Yasumoto for Sendai v Niigata
3) Uetsuji for Sendai v Niigata
Honorable mentions:
Arimachi for Belle v INAC

LC’s semi-finals, all-stars + final (24 Aug - 1 Sept)
1) Nakano for Belle v Beleza
2) Isokane for INAC v JEF
3) Miyama for Belle v Beleza
Honorable mentions:
Yamaguchi for scoring almost twice Belle v INAC
Sugasawa for JEF v INAC (really for Anzai’s work)

Matchday #10 (8-Sept)
This was the hardest ever matchday, as there were 7 good goals of about the same merit. In such cases I consider how unusual is the goal, and what was team input, and also if it was really aided by poor DF.
1) Tahara for Vega v Kibi
2) Nakazato for Beleza v Osaka
3) Matsuoka 2nd for Belle v Iga
Honorable mentions:
Sugasawa for JEF v Urawa
Momiki for Beleza v Osaka
Sato for Osaka v Beleza
Goebel 2nd for INAC v Albi

From Giraffe's private collection, see them here:
one two three four
but note that because this month is a mixture of LC, longer Final highlights and NL, they do not exactly correspond 1:1 to each matchday listed.

 

No, no, nothing like that, it was just a random observation!

The walls of text are fine if you are actually saying something, at least to me, and I think you actually say some pretty interesting things. More importantly though, do you ever actually sleep blesstherebel? You posted this about a half hour before I woke up!