Official 2015 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

Aaaaaaah!!!

The most charming girls in France!!

Guingamp is not very close to Lyon... Saki and Ami won't have much time to visit each other, apart from these holydays. I suppose it was Ami coming in Lyon to see old team-mates.

 

Very very interesting. There were rumours about that, but now it's official.

I guess that the fact that VfL Wolfsburg, arguably the strongest club in the world right now, decided to sign her is a testament to the strength of Yuki as a player and to the consideration she's given on the international scene.
Also, the fact that Wolfsburg needed to sign a big international can be a sign that Nadine Keßler won't be back very soon from her injury? (this, by the way, could also affect Germany at WWC).

 

Ndsk120 uploaded this video with interviews about Nadeshiko Japan National Team's 2015 season, taken before the Empress' Cup final, at HT and after the match. They include Yukari Kinga, Tomomi Miyamoto, Norio Sasaki and Kyoko Yano.
It would be interesting if someone could translate the more important things that have been said...

 

But isn't now Challenge League = Division 3?

If I understood correctly, next year we'll have: Nadeshiko League 1 (= Division 1); Nadeshiko League 2 (= Division 2), with the upper part of last year's Challenge League + Kibi; Challenge League (= Division 3), with the lower part of last season's Challenge League + some teams promoted from regional leagues (including Seagulls) + some clubs that couldn't be eligible for promotion in Nadeshiko League 1, as Tokiwagi Gakuen High School, thus not able to compete in Nadeshiko League 2 anymore.

So, yes, Yokohama Seagulls will play in Challenge League, but, if I understood correctly, Challenge league is now Division 3, not Division 2.

 

Thank you very much, Frideswide!

Now, everyone can choose his favourite team(s) in each Division!

Just out of curiosity: I suppose Nippon Sport Science University L.S.C. is the translated name of Nittaidai Football Club Ladies?

Also, it's a shame that strong teams as JFA Academy Fukushima and Tokiwagi Gakuen High School had to play in Division 3 for eligibility issues: don't they risk to dominate the whole league?

 

At the beginning of the year, as usual, we get the High School Championship! We recently talked about all the drama in it, and this tournament also sports some high level players, as U-17 World Champions Hina Sugita, Fuka Kono (Fujieda Junshin), Rikako Kobayashi and Nana Ichise (Tokiwagi) and other very good players, as Tokiwagi's Akari Shiraki, who was just signed by Japan's Champions of Urawa Reds Ladies.

The first round was just played today: Virany showed some nice pictures of main players and, according to Full Bloom Guidebook, figures of attendances were quite impressive for a youth tournament, at least for the "biggest" teams as Tokiwagi, Fujieda, Hinomoto... It's true that normally all of the school-mates are there supporting the girls , but anyway I don't think it's easy to pass the 1.000 people mark: the Hinomoto match had an audience of 1.000, Tokiwagi had 1.100 and Fujieda had 1.200. And Fujieda weren't even home! (Probably it helped, though, because Fujieda's traveling fans joined local team supporters ). It happened sometimes, this season, that some minor Nadeshiko League matches had problems in reaching the 1.000 people mark! And we're just at the first round of the High School Championship: what kind of audience can we expect for the final match?

 

Mmm, a certain player with a mask wants to pretend to be an high school girl yet?

 

Wow, I didn't remember that High School Tournament had back-to-back matchdays in consecutive days! Yesterday the 1st round was played, today we already had 2nd round...

According to Full Bloom Guidebook, all the favourite teams won their matches: Hinomoto Gakuen, Fujieda Junshin, Tokiwagi Gakuen...
Judging from the photos on Virany's Tumblr, Shonan Gakuin High School should be considered between the favourites also, but maybe it's only due to the fact that Virany particularly likes a player called Sena Mamyo...



Anyway, the question should be settled in the quarter-finals, because one of them will be Hinomoto vs Shonan. It looks like this time the girls will have at least one more day to rest, because quarter-finals are planned on the 6th. Then again the semi-finals are on the following day, the 7th!
The final-match must be deemed of the greatest importance, because there will be even 4 days of rest! Final match on the 11th.

Just a little more than one week (8 days) between first round and final match: this youth tournament is tighter than a World Cup!

 

I bet this girl's first name is Sakura, that means "cherry" in Japanese indeed.

Well, nothing wrong here: Hina Sugita is a Princess, isn't she?

Oh, Hina Sugita has anyway a friend-child in the team?

History of China? Is there a traitress involved?

 

Now we kinda know which team you root for in High School Championship also!

 

I ask because I honestly don't know: in Frauen-Bundesliga the salary of professional can be disclosed or it isn't public info? I'd be curious to know how much Yuki will be payed for this 2,5 years' contract...