Official 2017 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

Thanks for posting this link. It seems that Chinese players are relatively well paid. If the average salary is 5,000 - 10,000 yuan per month. The average annual income in China is about 60,000 yuan (this is based on very superficial online research so please correct me if I am wrong). Of course, they are probably paid just for the season which is probably just a few months. It does refer to a player that made 400,000 yuan a year. That is about 60,000 U.S. dollars. A pretty decent salary, even now.

I also like how the article refers to Chinese corporations as capitalists.

 

Yes, and she won the club's Player of the Year and Players' Player awards even though she was there for a relatively short time. I wonder if Canberra made any attempts to keep her or if this deal with the Chinese club was already in the works when she went to Canberra?

I am curious, was Kinga pushed out of INAC to make room for younger players or was it her decision? She still seems to be "at the top of her game" according to the Canberra coach. Or is the level of club play significantly different between Japan and Australia? I noticed most Australian players do not seem to make much of an impact when they go to Japan. I am not trying to be provocative, I am just curious. My level of football knowledge is pretty superficial, so I can't judge the quality of play between the two countries.

One thing though, we will probably see fewer videos from China than from Australia.

 

Seems to be a spillover from what's happening in the men's game there.

It reminds me a bit of the bubble period in Japan (1986-1992). During this time football leagues were being massively expanded and and foreign players brought in on huge salaries -- in 1992 Yomiuri Nippon SC Ladies (now NTV Beleza) made headlines by bringing in a Canadian player (Carrie Serwetnyk) on a salary of USD 100,000 per year -- an unheard of amount at that time.

 

NT members for Algarve Cup will be announced in ten minutes.
http://www.jfa.jp/news/00012555/

 

NT members for Algarve Cup:

GK: Yamane Yamashita Hirao
DF: Sameshima Ariyoshi Kumagai Kawamura Takagi Nakamura Kitagawa
MF: Sakaguchi Nakajima Sasaki Utsugi Chiba Nakasato Hasegawa
FW: Sugasawa Iwabuchi Yokoyama Tanaka Masuya Momiki

 

Interesting..

 

So Yuki Nagasato was out. And Kyokawa too.

 

According to Takakura's explanation, Yuki told her that she would concentrate on Frankfurt for now at the time of the last selection.

 

Members for La Manga (U23):
http://www.jfa.jp/attachment/589c1489-fc28-42a7-893a-769fd3093d95/20170209_u23w_member.pdf

GK: Matsumoto Hayashizaki
DF: Katsurama Sunaga Yamamori Matsubara Ishii Haza Shimizu Ichise
MF: Naomoto Mihashi Narumiya Nakamura (Mizuki) Ito (Miki) Sumida Sugita (Hina) Miura
FW: Michigami Ohya Ueno Shiraki

 

Friendly Matches in Europa:

Nadeshiko Japan vs Netherlands on June 9th
Nadeshiko Japan vs Belgium on June 13th

 

Same is playing #3 now.

 

Yes, Kawamura is #5.

I guess I did not consider that I'd be around here this long and changes like this...

 

"German-based striker Yuki Nagasato was left out as Nadeshiko Japan manager Asako Takakura on Thursday named four uncapped players to her squad for the upcoming Algarve Cup in Portugal.

Nagasato, a veteran of Japan’s 2011 World Cup-winning and 2015 runner-up squads and part of the team that earned the 2012 Olympic silver medal has chosen club FFC Frankfurt over country, according to Takakura..."

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/...th-experience-algarve-cup-squad/#.WJ1OO2997IU

 

U19 NT candidates for a training camp (February 19~22):
http://www.jfa.jp/attachment/589d7351-8354-43ea-af2f-2190d3093d95/20170210_u19w_member.pdf

Really attractive members, aren't they?

 

By the way unepomme, did they said anything about Miyama?

 

I missed some parts of the interview, but I think nothing was told about her.

 

Agreed. Some really exciting names there.

 

Choosing club over country seems like a harsh way of putting it. I wonder if that was an accurate translation of Takakura's words? Obviously we cannot know Nagasato's motivations but it is curious. Did she need Frankfurt's permission to go? Is her position at Frankfurt vulnerable? Perhaps she is burned out on the National team right now.
I do not remember, was she on the team that played the U.S. last year?

Actually I like the idea of integrating newer, younger players onto the team, even if it means going through some growing pains where we see a period of losses. We need to transition away from the 2011 team eventually.

 

In fact, she just said that Yuki had told her at the previous selection she had wanted to concentrate on the team for the time being.