Islanders to land Okubo [Archive]

JRedknapp11

11 Dec 2004, 08:03 PM

According to the player's club, Cerezo Osaka, the striker will link up with The Islanders on December 16 and stay in Spain until the end of the season.
http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.asp?hlid=236532&CPID=23&CLID=&lid=549&title=Islanders+to+land+Okubo&channel=Asia

Quango

12 Dec 2004, 11:26 AM

According to the player's club, Cerezo Osaka, the striker will link up with The Islanders on December 16 and stay in Spain until the end of the season.
http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.asp?hlid=236532&CPID=23&CLID=&lid=549&title=Islanders+to+land+Okubo&channel=Asia

Mallorca could use him. Although, who they could really use is Eto'o.

Quango

19 Dec 2004, 01:46 PM

According to the player's club, Cerezo Osaka, the striker will link up with The Islanders on December 16 and stay in Spain until the end of the season.
http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.asp?hlid=236532&CPID=23&CLID=&lid=549&title=Islanders+to+land+Okubo&channel=Asia

Is this guy any good?

Quango

19 Dec 2004, 02:04 PM

Is this guy any good?

Answering my own question: he apparently won Most Promising Asian Player 2004. He has signed and will start after the winter holiday. Q

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/preview?id=169732&cc=5901
(It's towards the bottom of the match preview.)

Quango

09 Jan 2005, 01:44 PM

Okubo scored on his debut, getting the teams second goal to draw with Depor. Nice start. Q

Quango

13 Jan 2005, 05:17 PM

Mallorca are bringing in a lot of new faces to survive the threat of relegation.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=321788&cc=5901

"Former Juventus defender Mark Iuliano said he was looking for a new challenge after deciding to leave the Serie A side and sign a two and a half-year deal with Primera Liga strugglers Real Mallorca.

'The club president Mateu Alemany took just 15 minutes to convince me that I should come,' the former Italy international said at a news conference in Palma de Mallorca on Thursday.

'It is a great opportunity for me in every sense, both in personal and sporting terms.'"

It probably wouldn't take 4 minutes to convince me to move to Mallorca :D Glad to see they are making a run at it. Okubo has already given them some hope. Quango

Quango

23 May 2005, 06:50 PM

Okubo led Mallorca to a 3-0 pounding of La Coruna this weekend and moved the team out of the relegation zone for the first time in eight months. What a final run by these guys.

Mallorca face Betis this weekend. A win guarentees their Liga survival! Go Mallorca!