Congrats to Qatar,Arab and west Asian people who want WC in their region. Qatar's plan looks cool . Though I am not sure that plan will materialize completely. I hope Japanese companies get works for it and earn much money
They seem to have a decent striker if this page isn't fake although I suspect it is or this guy is the best striker in the world that nobody knows about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Ahmed He's Somali though.....
doha-2006.com Sponsored Search Results for "yusef ahmed" No results matched your search. Candidate for a speedy deletion if ever I saw one. Reference properly or it didn't happen.
http://sports.yahoo.co.jp/news/20101202-00000277-sph-socc.html Usami pretty much going to the AC. Finally some sanity today.
With the Oceania vote gone - MBH convincing Tempanii to appeal his suspension, our apparent support dissipated. There has been a fair bit written about that in the last day or so. There were a number of people who had said to our bid team that they were going to vote for us, but only Beckenbauer kept his word. Probably a fair bit of naivety on our part. I expected the US to get it, so I'm not too disappointed that Australia didn't win. That Qatar won, however... Anyway, whilst this country is very good at hosting major events, I don't think we're ready for football's World Cup. The game has structural issues here, there is a divide between the grass roots and the top-tier competition (Not to mention the divide between past and present), and not yet a true acceptance of the game in the strongholds of the other football codes here. These have to be appeased (ie compensated) if a major event such as the WC was to be held in stadia that they also use. We also need more football people running the game here, rather than administrators from other sports. It would have been great, and a huge boost for the game here (and nearby Oceania), but I just don't think we're ready for it. Just my ￥10. edit: Sorry, just realised which thread we're in. Won't discuss it any more here!
I can't wait for the Asian Cup. I just finished re-reading all the WC threads, it made tremble with joy, just to remember how good it was.
Hahaha in the australian boards, they're pretty busted up about the FWC hosting thing. They're pumped to take the championship in Qatar. Australia vs Korea will be the test for them and whoever comes off worst wont make it.
Busted up, not so much losing the bid, but rather about who won it. For all the bravado, we won't get past the semi-finals, I imagine. Will be nice to smash the host nation if the opportunity presents itself, however. Going on form it's hard to look past Japan, for mine. There is a well-founded confidence within the team, and with ability to match - I'm looking forward to seeing them play again.
Australians have always been talking big about how they're the top dog in AFC now that they're members. They have yet to prove anything and they won't have any excuses for the upcoming Asian Cup.
The general opinion of the Aussies on this forum is that they're currently no.3 with a few exceptions. If Australia are gonna go deep they've got a tough road ahead, japan and Saudi Arabia got it pretty good up to the semis. Australia will probably face Iran in the second round which is gonna be a big game. Unfortunately Bahrain haven't been in decent form recently so group c may not be as tight as first thought.
Many pics of Japan NT uniforms over the years. Interesting!! http://football-uniform.seesaa.net/article/104856724.html
Code: 01位 サッカーＷ杯 日本×パラグアイ・第１部（ＴＢＳ・６月２９日）５７．３％ 02位 サッカーＷ杯 日本×カメルーン（後半）（ＮＨＫ・６月１４日）４５．５％ 03位 サッカーＷ杯 日本×オランダ（朝 日・６月１９日）４３．０％ 04位 サッカーＷ杯 日本×デンマーク（日 本・６月２５日）４０．９％ 05位 バンクーバー冬季五輪 フィギュア女子フリー（ＮＨＫ・２月２６日）３６．３％ 06位 金曜特別ロードショー「崖の上のポニョ」（日 本・２月５日）２９．８％ 07位 第８６回箱根駅伝・復路（日 本・１月３日）２７．９％ 08位 サッカー国際親善試合 韓国×日本（フ ジ・１０月１２日）２６．８％ 09位 ２４時間テレビ３３「愛は地球を救う」・パート１０（日 本・８月２９日）２５．６％ 10位 笑点（日 本・３月７日）２５．４％ 10位 バンクーバー冬季五輪 開会式（ＮＨＫ・２月１３日）２５．４％ 12位 サザエさん（フ ジ・１０月２４日）２４．７％ 13位 ニュース７（ＮＨＫ・１１月２３日）２４．６％ 14位 龍馬伝（ＮＨＫ・１月３１日）２４．４％ 15位 サッカー日本代表・国際試合 日本×イングランド（後半）（ＮＨＫ・５月３０日）２３．９％ Top 15 T.V. programs this year. Looks like football is going strong, hopefully by 2014 we'll see higher ratings. I can only imagine what the ratings would have been if Japan had made it to the quarter-finals. It's a shame that the Denmark match was the least watched as it was the best match. 60%? 65%? maybe even 70%?
That's a lot. If memory serves me right, the WBC final made 36% overall. I may be missing some details about how it's calculated.
Were the rights to show the football given to only one channel, and the baseball rights given to more channels? Still pretty impressive though since a lot of those games were shown at 3am or something like that.