Official (U20) Youth Japanese NT Thread

Being bullied by older/stronger opponents is a good training for him?

 

Mah friends.

This video became a viral back in 2011 due to his abilities

Anyone remember this or has an idea who's that guy?

Once i've heard that's Takefusa Kubo, but i dont think so

 

Nakai i think.

 

Real??? Is he the antithesis of Kubo?
I bet somewhere there's a tape similar to this with kid Kagawa showing the same level of circus football as this.

 

Why antithesis?

 

The Next Messi vs The Next Ronaldo.

Referee: Miyaichi "Former Japanese Messi" Ryo.
Assistant: Takayuki 'Former Japanese Ronaldo" Morimoto.

 

That is a problem, the comparisions. Japanese don't understand that sometimes Still, there are millions of players in the world, not 2

 

comparisons exist everywhere, let's not make it a local issue. it was brought up to him by the argentinian press recently and Teioh is italian.

 

By japanese I didn't mean him. I was talking in general

 

These comparisions sounds dangerous for me.

Imagine, a kid like Nakai hearing that he is "the new cristiano ronaldo" or "new james" due he is playing for madrid.

and in 10~15 years he is playing for Mito HollyHock in J2 league lol.

and our japanese Messi is Manabu ehimessi Saito for sure!!

 

Nakai was given a gift from the gods. It's a shame there is so little footage of him available, but from the little peeks I have seen, he could be a superstar. We will have to wait a while though before he reaches 18, and other prodigies have failed at a younger age, freddy adu for example and maybe not a failure, but Hachim Mastour of AC milan made kids at under 15 look like amateurs, but is now struggling to do the same in the bigger leagues against professional players, so it's always hard to say. Fingers crossed though.

 

Haha, a shame for us I mean

 

U18 Japan won the Copa del Atlantico in Spain.

Match 1 : 2-1 Canary Islands U18
Match 2 : 2-1 Belgium U18
Match 3 : 2-0 Spain U18

 

Were Belgium and Spain used their A squad?

 

And Japan?

 

24 players have been called up to the Japan U20 team for a trip to Germany later this month.

GK:
1 Ryosuke Kojima (Waseda U)
12 Go Hatano (FC Tokyo)
21 Keisuke Osako (Sanfrecce Hiroshima Youth)
23 Rui Yamaguchi (FC Lorient/France)

DF:
2 So Fujitani (Vissel Kobe)
3 Yuta Nakayama (Kashiwa Reysol)
4 Koki Machida (Kashima Antlers)
5 Takehiro Tomiyasu (Avispa Fukuoka)
6 Ryo Hatsuse (Gamba Osaka)
19 Sho Funaki (Cerezo Osaka)
22 Ko Itakura (Kawasaki Frontale)

MF:
7 Yuta Kamiya (Shonan Bellmare)
8 Koji Miyoshi (Kawasaki Frontale)
10 Daisuke Sakai (Oita Tritinia)
11 Tsukasa Morishima (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
15 Ritsu Doan (Gamba Osaka)
16 Teruki Hara (Albirex Niigata)
17 Mizuki Ichimaru (Gamba Osaka)
18 Keita Endo (Yokohama F. Marinos)

FW:
9 Koki Ogawa (Jubilo Iwata)
13 Reo Hatate (Juntendo U)
14 Akito Takagi (Gamba Osaka)
20 Yuto Iwasaki (Kyoto Sanga FC)
24 Takefusa Kubo (FC Tokyo U-18)

 

How many chances of seeing Takefusa Kubo at the next U-20 WC?

 

Group A: Korea Republic, Guinea, Argentina, England
Group B: Venezuela, Germany, Vanuatu, Mexico
Group C: Zambia, Portugal, Iran, Costa Rica
Group D: South Africa, Japan, Italy, Uruguay
Group E: France, Honduras, Vietnam, New Zealand
Group F: Ecuador, USA, Saudi Arabia, Senegal