It is a game and something that gets fun when you look at it 4 years later. The principle is simple, guess Japan's XI at the 2018 World Cup (+ substitutes if you want to push). You can make different predictions over the years but try not to make too many, that would denature the gist of this thread. Let's see who are the real visionaries.
Just impossible to predict but I will lend myself to the game ----------------------------------Kawashima/Gonda-------------------------------------- Uchida/H. Sakai---Yoshida/Nishino-------Nakatani/Morishige------Nagatomo/Miyahara ----------------------------------Hasebe/Yamaguchi------------------------------------------ ------------------Shibasaki/Oshima--------------Kagawa/Morioka------------------------ Okugawa/Honda-------------------------------------------------------Usami/Muto/Minamino ------------------------------Okazaki/Osako/Kinoshita-------------------------------------- Coach : Hidetoshi NAKATA (just two GK, and 24 players but we don't care) In reserve : Maruoka, Nagasawa, Wataru Endo, Ueda...
That coach... Mine's: ----------------------------------Kawashima (35)--------------------------------------- Uchida (30)---------------???-----------Morishige (31)---------Nagatomo (32) --------------------------------???----------Morioka (22)------------------------------- ----------------------------Honda (32)/Kagawa (29)--------------------------------- ??? -------------------------------Muto (26)-------------------------Minamino (23) Really old defence... Manager: Roberto Baggio.
-------------------------------Gonda------------------------------ ----Uchida-------Yoshida------------Ueda-------Someone---- ----------------------------Yamaguchi---------------------------- -----------------Shibasaki--------------------Maruoka---------- -------Okazaki---------------Osako---------------Usami-------- Manager: Oswaldo Oliveira
Higashiguchi - Uchida, Yoshida, Shiotani, G.Sakai - Gaku Shibasaki, Oshima - Muto, Kagawa, Usami - Osako Bench: Kawashima, Iwanami, H.Sakai, Maruoka, Morioka, Minamino, Honda, Okazaki. Coach: Arsene Wenger
Why not? Someone is a great prospective player and ??? is a so ductile one! Personal favs since ages.
manager: me. jokes apart: it's fun but there are so many things that could happen (I'm not even talking about injuries, but mostly players changing clubs) that I would be throwing names, I'll try in 2016 to be a little more realistic.
But you don't even have done it yet LOL anyway, I was trying to say that I would have no idea right now, it's too far.
But you've made the thread lol. I already said clearly that I have no enjoyment of doing random stuff now
i offered you a chance to be loved by the people who elected you and you turned it down. Sad. I will do mine later because I can have fun once in a while.
GK: ポープ ウィリアム DF: Nagai - 畑中 - ハーフナー - Yano MF: Matsui - Endo - Tulio - Miyaichi FW: Saito - Kazu - Pedro Junior (so that Sergio will be happy) reserves: Nakayama, S. Ono, Takefusa Kubo, Okugawa, Shiraoka, Daisuke Sakai*, M.Havenaar manager: Lippi Inoha will deliver water bottles *at least one is needed
Higashiguchi (Nishikawa / Nakamura) H. Sakai (Anzai) - Yoshida (Nishino) - Morishige (Nakatani) - Nagatomo (Gotoku) Shibasaki (Ishige) - Yamaguchi (Fukai) - Maruoka (Kagawa) Honda (Muto) - Caio (Kawamata) - Usami (Okugawa) Coach: Aguirre
We're past halfway through and almost qualified (or eliminated). Post your teams gentlemen and let's see how much they changed since 2014.
Higashiguchi - Uchida, Yoshida, Shiotani, G.Sakai - Gaku Shibasaki, Oshima - Muto, Kagawa, Usami - Osako Bench: Kawashima, Iwanami, H.Sakai, Maruoka, Morioka, Minamino, Honda, Okazaki. Poor team. Maruoka was a common name on the bench or in the starting 11. He was in his Dortmund times. Played decent in some games for them, but now
not at all, people were just fantasizing on him. Who can say anything about Maruoka's strengths or playing style ? None because no one has seen him play,except NaohiroTakahara who saw a good blend of Iniesta and Mascherano in him.
Mines updated: Kawashima Uchida - Yoshida - Morishige - Nagatomo Hasebe - Yamaguchi Haraguchi - Honda - Kiyotake Asano Coach: Vahid.