[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptq6l_RPX10&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL"][Highlight] Thailand U19 0-0 Japan U19 - YouTube[/ame] "Slightly" biased highlights.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMhRCOObCmY&feature=related"][AFC-U19] Japan 5-0 Chinese Taipei - YouTube[/ame] Japan vs Taiwan Lol on the 3rd goal
Nice goal by Harakawa The Thai team looks pretty formidable and they had a couple of dangerous chances to score. Need to beat Korea to get the top spot
It's amazing that Fukai is starting at this age level. He's only 16. It's a shame that we won't see him in the J-League for 2-3 years. He'll probably be a 2種登録 next season. But it's difficult to see him getting playing time, especially if Consadole he promoted.
It's no big deal, they were already qualified and the coach played it safe to make sure they'll be keeping their great goal differential.
I know, but I was hoping for once that one of our youth teams would finally get some balls and beat SK for once. I mean, when was the last time? 2007? I guess it's still a huge mental hill for them to climb, I think, as they were on paper the "strongest team" in their group up until the game against Korea (and maybe the Thailand game too)
(thanks to Jitevra) [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvacDpSfszA"]KOREA REPUBLIC VS JAPAN U19??2011 - YouTube[/ame] Looks like they played pretty well actually. I wonder if Kubo was really offside, it was a well built goal. He could have scored when he had a similar chance later. Can't feel angry towards Kushibiki, those kinds of shots are difficult to firmly stop.
Heh, typical of Korea to win with their longball tactics. That was a nice "one-two" with the header assist, good job by the scorer
The CB marking the goalscorer was WAY off his man, gave him like 2.5m of space in the box, not good enough. A little disappointing qualification tourney given (a) how the U17's did and (b) how we need to see Japanese Youth NT's reach the top tier in world youth tournaments.
Ishige won AFC Youth Player of the Year http://www.the-afc.com/en/component...73-youth-player-of-the-year-men-hideki-ishige
Israel tournament members and schedule Code: GK 1 山田 元気 YAMADA Genki1994.12.16 184 cm 70 kg 京都サンガF.C.U-18 18 中村 航輔 NAKAMURA Kosuke1995.02.27 182 cm 70 kg 柏レイソルU-18 DF 5 室屋 成 MUROYA Sei1994.04.05 174 cm 62 kg 青森山田高校 6 川口 尚紀 KAWAGUCHI Naoki1994.05.24 176 cm 71 kg アルビレックス新潟ユース 4 諸石 健太 MOROISHI Kenta1994.05.29 180 cm 66 kg 桐光学園高校 7 秋野 央樹 AKINO Hiroki1994.10.08 174 cm 62 kg 柏レイソルU-18 8 新井 純平 ARAI Jumpei1994.11.12 172 cm 62 kg 浦和レッズユース 3 田口 翔太郎 TAGUCHI Shotaro1995.02.04 183 cm 64 kg JFAアカデミー福島 2 ハーフナー・ニッキ HAVENAAR Nikki1995.02.16 192 cm 72 kg 名古屋グランパスU18 MF 9 早川 史哉 HAYAKAWA Fumiya1994.01.12 170 cm 68 kg アルビレックス新潟ユース 10 平澤 俊輔 HIRASAWA Shunsuke1994.04.11 178 cm 66 kg JFAアカデミー福島 12 溝田 光 MIZOTA Hikaru1994.07.27 168 cm 63 kg 三重県立津工業高校 13 小林 祐介 KOBAYASHI Yusuke1994.10.23 170 cm 61 kg 柏レイソルU-18 14 中川 寛斗 NAKAGAWA Hiroto1994.11.03 155 cm 48 kg 柏レイソルU-18 16 松本 昌也 MATSUMOTO Masaya1995.01.25 169 cm 60 kg JFAアカデミー福島 17 三島 頌平 MISHIMA Shohei1995.11.20 174 cm 58 kg 帝京大学可児高校 FW 11 鈴木 武蔵 SUZUKI Musashi1994.02.11 184 cm 71 kg 桐生第一高校 15 木下 康介 KINOSHITA Kosuke1994.10.03 185 cm 72 kg 横浜FCユース 19 南野 拓実 MINAMINO Takumi1995.01.16 173 cm 65 kg セレッソ大阪U-18 20 田村 亮介 TAMURA Ryosuke1995.05.08 169 cm 55 kg 京都サンガF.C.U-18 Traditional Winter Tournament Israel 2011 スケジュール 12月12日(月)17:00 対 U-18ポルトガル代表(Winter, Ramat Gan Stadium) 12月13日(火)17:00 対 U-18ドイツ代表(Ra'anana, Municipal Stadium) 12月15日(木)17:00 対 U-18イスラエル代表(Petach,Tlkva Municipal Stadium) Basically the U-17 World Cup team plus a couple of new faces like Nikki. No Ueda or Iwanami though which is quite interesting, maybe injuries? There seems to be a couple of key players missing (Fukai and Ishige) so I'm wondering if they had other commitments.
Ueda and Iwanami are on the verge of starting a pro career, Fukai has played with the U19, I think he doesn't want to overwork them. Plus, I think the purpose of this is to see a lot of players in order to make a final choice for the important tournaments coming.
Ueda is still a second year so one more year until he goes pro. He'll probably do a Shibasaki and train with the team he signs with for a year until he graduates. Plus his school didn't qualify for the tournament so he should have some free time. Maybe he's using this time to figure out which pro team to join. Kawaguchi is in a similar situation with Fukai so I don't agree with that excuse. I think he is not there because of the premier league final is coming up.
If he has an offer from Kashima he shouldn't even blink, they handled Shibasaki very well. Fukai is younger, maybe he wants him to rest ... meh I don't know you're right, I forgot about the J.league Youth Cup.
I agree that Kashima would probably be the best choice. I was a bit worried with Shibasaki at the beginning of the season because he wasn't playing, but now he's a regular and I can see him being called up in the next 1-2 years if he continues to play well. I'm already drooling thinking about a Shibasaki-Yamamura volante pair in midfield. Definitely two of the best young midfielders in Japan and I would not be surprised if we see that line-up on match day 1 of next season. Kashima is a good choice because they are a title-challenging team, but they desperately need some new CB's soon. Without a doubt, Ueda will be integrated a quickly as possible.
yeah. It's surprising to see how fast Shibasaki has matured. This kind of elegant but fragile players have usually troubles making the transition to the pro level but instead, he turned into a very agressive midfielder who's not relunctant to make fouls when he has to. He plays like a veteran, that's a good sign.
Fumiya Hayakawa is going to Tsukuba University http://www.sponichi.co.jp/soccer/news/2011/12/09/kiji/K20111209002207730.html