Happy for Japan, bit sad for the brave UAE players. But that's life. Chinese spectators can now go home, they might be tired after all that booing...
Congrats to young Japanese players, but also kudos to young UAE players, they dominated Japan but were unlucky.
I think UAE played full 120 minites two games in a raw , so Japan is clearly favored, but many players of Japan don't have playing time for their cubs, so they are said to have problem of stamina. This showed some today. Especially Yamazaki is just after recovering from two years injuries and illness, so I can't blame his today's bad performance. Anyway Nagai is again good today . Overall Nagai and Yamazaki look promising in this tourament.
I can't understand that. Japan's number 7 gave the ball to UAE almost everytime he received a pass in first half and still on the field? Overall I think number 11, 8 and perhaps the goalkeeper have the future for Japan national team.
Our two soccer teams won the tournament, that's a good period for japanese football. I hope we'll win the Asian Cup. As for a future in the national team, I see Nagai, Yamamura, maybe Yamazaki, Higashi and Noborizato. I wouldn't count the central defenders out, they were also pretty good. Suganuma who sat on the bench is also a good player.
The double crossbar was somewhat lucky, but overall I thought it was a fair victory. Japan definitely were playing a defensive, score-on-the-counter strategy which is the opposite of how it usually works when Japan plays UAE, but what impressed me about this team from the very start was how solid and calm the defending was. Nagai and Yamazaki did pretty well creating chances considering that they had NO midfield support. Basically this was a very good team in the back line, and the two strikers (MAYBE including Mizunuma), but the midfield was about as crappy as Ive ever seen from a Japan NT. . . . I suppose thats because all the decent midfielders are already playing for J.League clubs ?
Care to point them out? Aside from the girl w/ the uniform in the center, and maybe the one on the top left corner... Speaking of U-21 I hope you're not referring to the girl on the bottom in the yellow tee-shirt, because some of my JHS students look older
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Impressed with how well Nagai covered their defenders. It looked like he was sprinting all the time. Didn't give the CBs much room. Our no.10 was rubbish. But very cool-headed defenders though.
I say enough already with the photo I mean, seriously, which crowd would you rather watch football with?
Nagai's T-shirts says "雑草"(weed). They surely showed great "雑草魂"(weed spirit） in this tournament and surprised many Japanese football fans. Zac was watching there in studium. Nagai may have chance to be called.
Weed Spirit is the best kind of spirit . . . . Which reminds me, Dick Advocaat (current coach of Zenit Moscow) was asked recently whether he prefers real grass, or if Artificial Turf was OK. "I dont know", he replied, "I havent smoked any Artificial Turf."
Stats of all the potential London team members from this season http://snufkin8go.blog97.fc2.com/blog-entry-292.html
U-22日本代表の中東遠征メンバーとスケジュールについて スタッフ 監督 関塚 隆 ｾｷﾂﾞｶ ﾀｶｼ SEKIZUKA Takashi 【（財）日本サッカー協会 ナショナルコーチングスタッフ】 コーチ 小倉 勉 ｵｸﾞﾗ ﾂﾄﾑ OGURA Tsutomu 【（財）日本サッカー協会 ナショナルコーチングスタッフ】 アシスタントコーチ 武藤 覚 ﾑﾄｳ ｱｷﾗ MUTO Akira 【（財）日本サッカー協会 ナショナルコーチングスタッフ】 選 手 Pos. 氏名 ｱﾙﾌｧﾍﾞｯﾄ表記 生年月日 身長 体重 所属 GK 守田 達弥 ﾓﾘﾀ ﾀﾂﾔ MORITA Tatsuya 1990.08.03 191cm 82kg 京都サンガF.C. 安藤 駿介 ｱﾝﾄﾞｳ ｼｭﾝｽｹ ANDO Shunsuke 1990.08.10 185cm 79kg 川崎フロンターレ DF 實藤 友紀 ｻﾈﾄｳ ﾕｳｷ SANETO Yuki 1989.01.19 178cm 68kg 高知大学 薗田 淳 ｿﾉﾀﾞ ｼﾞｭﾝ SONODA Jun 1989.01.23 181cm 73kg 川崎フロンターレ 比嘉 祐介 ﾋｶﾞ ﾕｳｽｹ HIGA Yusuke 1989.05.15 168cm 68kg 流通経済大学 鈴木 大輔 ｽｽﾞｷ ﾀﾞｲｽｹ SUZUKI Daisuke 1990.01.29 181cm 76kg アルビレックス新潟 高橋 峻希 ﾀｶﾊｼ ｼｭﾝｷ TAKAHASHI Shunki 1990.05.04 169cm 71kg 浦和レッズ 濱田 水輝 ﾊﾏﾀﾞ ﾐｽﾞｷ HAMADA Mizuki 1990.05.18 184cm 80kg 浦和レッズ 丸橋 祐介 ﾏﾙﾊｼ ﾕｳｽｹ MARUHASHI Yusuke 1990.09.02 178cm 68kg セレッソ大阪 岡本 拓也 ｵｶﾓﾄ ﾀｸﾔ OKAMOTO Takuya 1992.06.18 175cm 73kg 浦和レッズ MF 山崎 亮平 ﾔﾏｻﾞｷ ﾘｮｳﾍｲ YAMAZAKI Ryohei 1989.03.14 171cm 66kg ジュビロ磐田 青木 拓矢 ｱｵｷ ﾀｸﾔ AOKI Takuya 1989.09.16 179cm 73kg 大宮アルディージャ 山本 康裕 ﾔﾏﾓﾄ ｺｳｽｹ YAMAMOTO Kousuke 1989.10.29 177cm 76kg ジュビロ磐田 清武 弘嗣 ｷﾖﾀｹ ﾋﾛｼ KIYOTAKE Hiroshi 1989.11.12 172cm 63kg セレッソ大阪 山村 和也 ﾔﾏﾑﾗ ｶｽﾞﾔ YAMAMURA Kazuya 1989.12.02 184cm 75kg 流通経済大学 水沼 宏太 ﾐｽﾞﾇﾏ ｺｳﾀ MIZUNUMA Kota 1990.02.22 175cm 66kg 栃木SC 東 慶悟 ﾋｶﾞｼ ｹｲｺﾞHIGASHI Keigo 1990.06.20 178cm 69kg 大分トリニータ 山口 螢 ﾔﾏｸﾞﾁ ﾎﾀﾙ YAMAGUCHI Hotaru 1990.10.06 173cm 64kg セレッソ大阪 宇佐美 貴史 ｳｻﾐ ﾀｶｼ USAMI Takashi 1992.05.06 178cm 68kg ガンバ大阪 小野 裕二 ｵﾉ ﾕｳｼﾞ ONO Yuji 1992.12.22 169cm 60kg 横浜F･マリノス FW 永井 謙佑 ﾅｶﾞｲ ｹﾝｽｹ NAGAI Kensuke 1989.05.05 177cm 67kg 福岡大学 指宿 洋史 ｲﾌﾞｽｷ ﾋﾛｼ IBUSUKI Hiroshi 1991.02.27 194cm 80kg CEサバデルFC（ｽﾍﾟｲﾝ） スケジュール 2月9日(水) U-22日本代表 vs U-22サウジアラビア代表 2月12日(土) U-22日本代表 vs U-22バーレーン代表