I like this tournament so i am starting this thread. GK Kaito Yamamoto - Shimizu S-Pulse (J1) Shusaku Nishikawa - Oita Trinita (J1) Akihiro Hayashi - Ryutsu Keizai University (JFL) DF Hokuto Nakamura - Avispa Fukuoka (J2) Masahiko Inoha - Kashima Antlers (J1) Hiroki Mizumoto - Gamba Osaka (J1) Yusuke Tanaka - Yokohama F. Marinos (J1) Naoaki Aoyama - Shimizu S-Pulse (J1) Masato Morishige - Oita Trinita (J1) Maya Yoshida - Nagoya Grampus (J1) MF Takuya Honda - Shimizu S-Pulse (J1) Hiroyuki Taniguchi - Kawasaki Frontale (J1) Koki Mizuno - Celtic (Scotland) Yohei Kajiyama - FC Tokyo (J1) Toshihiro Aoyama - Sanfrecce Hiroshima (J2) Kota Ueda - Jubilo Iwata (J1) Hajime Hosogai - Urawa Reds (J1) Keisuke Honda - VVV (Netherlands) Tsukasa Umesaki - Urawa Reds (J1) FW Tadanari Lee - Kashiwa Reysol (J1) Takayuki Morimoto - Catania (Italy) Shinji Okazaki - Shimizu S-Pulse (J1) Sergio Escudero - Urawa Reds (J1) Looks like damn good squad if it's correct. Tuesday, May 20 - 12:00 p.m. ET Netherlands vs. Japan Thursday, May 22 - 12:00 p.m. ET France vs. Japan Saturday, May 24 - 2:30 p.m. ET Chile vs. Japan(a) Pretty tough group. Why do they come with a strong squad like this? Are they preparing for Beijing?
Hirayama has been dropped for months now, and the teams results have not suffered at all, in fact they are playing better.
yeah, some 20 years ago... I need some of my pushers to cap this tournie's games and pas'em over, then I could share with you, my friends...
Thanks for inform about it. Well, Japan, USA , Italy and Turkey are the my favorite for winning this tournament. LEts hope to see Good games with fair play.
I wonder if the other teams that are participating in Beijing brings such a strong squad as Japan do, those teams are Ivory Coast, Netherland, Usa and Italy.
Not the U.S. Nowak is bringing mostly guys on the fringes of the Olympic team: http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2008/05/nowak-names-ros.html
Japan-Netherlands 0-0, halftime. Boring but both teams are playing pretty tough. Japan started best. Honda is Japans best player so far.
Yeah 1-0 Japan. I think the referee were bad. A lot of fouls on the japanese players he didn't give a fck about blowing the whistle for. But they won so Hosogai, Honda were good today. Nest game France-Japan , this game will be much much harder.
I thought Japan played an Inteligent game...but Holland wasn't playing with their official olimpic team and they were very disapointing to be honest. Just throwing long balls all the time, very predictable. Japan kept things interesting with some effective long passing and team work...but in general I found this match was played in slow motion, in stark contrast with the France vs Chile match that was fireworks all around!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke-ILaur57A this is all i can find on youtube at the mo... quite a comical goal, but not as comical as the French own goal in the other match!
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