Japanese Abroad 2009/10 [R] - Part I

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Figured it out, thanks for the link!

 

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Not even that. He's played a whopping 206m in competitive matches.
12m as a sub
90m game (including goal against Falkirk)
62m start (@Rangers)
7m, 20m, 2m, 8m, 5m substitute appearances

FWIW, he did lead the reserves in assists with 7 last year.

 

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The Daisuke vid is terrible -- he looks like a player that hasn't seen the ball for 12 months. But it also looks like the other team went out with the idea of roughing him up... and somehow he gets the yellow while that one guy blatantly dived.

Ina -- on the foul that's replayed like 10 times, Ina got the ball. Don't know wtf Bocanegra was doing ... just ran into the player like he thought he was a freight train.

Both look rusty as hell and need to find their form fast I fear.

 

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1-1 against FC Utrecht so far. Honda with the assist.

FC Utrecht nicks one back... and then Honda does it again... sidesteps the defender and takes a brilliant strike from outside the box

2-2

 

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3 games played.
4 goals & 2 assists.

 

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I'm beginning to have doubts for him at VVV. At some point teams will realize everything moves through him, double up, and kick his shins into oblivion. ADO and Utrecht aren't very good teams... and they've needed Hondas' heroics in every game so far just to draw. I cannot see VVV staying up if it continues like this.

 

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Honda's 2nd assist of the season.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XBWjCiHGo"]YouTube - UTR - VVV???????????Keisuke Honda[/ame]

Honda's 4th goal of the season.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3zHF3pCowI"]YouTube - UTR - VVV??????????????????Keisuke Honda[/ame]

 

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http://www.vi.nl/Nieuws-item/168849/Honda-Ajax-PSV-of-blijven-bij-VVVVenlo.htm

Honda will go to Ajax or PSV, or else he'll stay at VVV.

 

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Haha what a fcking goal. His start of the season is to good to be true!!

 

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Inamoto started but red carded (2 yellows?) in the 77th minute. Bad, bad start into the season.

Like everybody is saying there is only one Japanese in the top leagues with good news regularly.

 

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My prediction

MF - Nakamura (Espanyol) - 4 goals - 7 assists
FW - Morimoto (Catania) - 11 goals - 2 assists
DF - Hasebe (Wolfsburg) - 0 goals - 3 assists
MF - Matsui (Grenoble) - 2 goals - 4 assists
MF - Inamoto (Rennes) - 0 goals - 1 asisst
MF - Honda (VVV Venlo) - 17 goals - 14 assists
MF - Mizuno (Celtic) - 0 goals - 0 assists
MF - Kobayashi (Stabaek) - 10 goals - 11 assists

 

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Oh. Ok I understand

I thought you were misinterpreting the transfer situation as you made the original post only a few days after his last game - a timeframe in which it's normal to expect no movements with so much as 10m slapped on him.

As far as Honda as a footballer is concerned, I know we're making the same points. I was just laying out the rationale behind my concerns over his future, in the wake of this hype, because Honda is still developing as a player.

I agree with Scotch too that things will only get tougher for Honda and eventually he'll have to figure something out.

 

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Aren't we a bit extreme at times, though? Both with hype and doom & gloom. We're only a week or few weeks into a new season in some countries and it's already a curtain call.

As I said while back, sometimes football is a game of 90 mins, other times it's months and years. Let them get on with it. Matsui wasn't bad for the first game just after joining the squad either, though I can sympathize with those who see that video very negatively.

But still.

 

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Matusi didn't look too bad to me in that clip. Won several dangerous FKs and should have had a couple more if the ref wasn't a complete tool.

 

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http://www.worldfootball.net/torjaeger/hun-nb1-2009-2010/

The guy in Hungary scored another one and is still the top scorer of the league.

 

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goru, that's probably either because you gave them too much credit in the 1st place or you see them as the ultimate determinant of our future. Mizuno is probably just about the only one who really worries me, not so much because he's doing badly, but because I feel that the environment is incorrect for his development at that age.

As for Inamoto/Ono etc... they are ultimately the past generation. It's good to see Nakamura doing well, but as far as I'm concerned they aren't "studying" anymore at all, but just making living by doing what they love doing, like you and your job. If they climb back up, great, but if not, I really don't care. We should credit those who continue to perform (Nakamura) and it's good to have such backbone in the national side, but getting upset when they're not is unhealthy. Football goes on, with the conveyor belt of players entering the chain and old generation fading away. What matters more is the overall machinary implemented in the nation's football and we have shifted the focus in that manner years ago.

Seriously. Don't be so upset about it, we're good to go Think long term because that's what it really is.

 

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And now, the extremely short Germany-digest:
1. Bundesliga: Hasebe still out injured, Ono benched with no playing time
2. Bundesliga: Kozo Yuki (Duesseldorf) not even on the bench
3. Liga: Asaeda played until 74th minute. Wuppertaler SV won 3-2 away to Wiesbaden.

I have to dig deep currently in Germany to find Japanese players actually playing. Hope that Hasebe returns to action soon, and Ono... well, let's see.

 

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and Kobayashi

 

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It's a shame that Japan has so many talented midfielders, but no one that can finish. I hope that Morimoto gets 10+ goals this season.

What a goal by Honda!