well, when someone knows where the games are, I'd like to know it, but I guess it would be in Japan, I don't know
She said, "I thought if she went into the PK box she must score, and I automatically made the tackle without thinking."
It shows that Sasaki was very busy attending several award parties on the same day. you can't know why he was crying from this video.
For sure they are in Japan, as that is where they are announced first. Here is an article concerning this weekend's games, and naming the scorers. Surprisingly none by Mana this time. Also I found this video which shows most of the goals from the Urawa game. It looks like Arikawa's goal owes much to the buildup (Goto to who? Yanagita or Yasuda maybe who hits the bar?).
Anyway I liked the way Arakawa angled her header near the far post; not as easy as it seems. It looks like Yamago wasn't defending Urawa's goalmouth, there was a different GK; technical choice, or is Yamago injured? Anyway, judgig by the highlights (only showing FC Takahashi goals + Arakawa's one), maybe this fact could have been a factor in Urawa's difficult time against Takahashi: Yamago maybe could have saved one of the three goals?
The GK is Ikeda, U-19 Japan NT member, and she has regularly played for Urawa through the last four league games this year. She might be immature compared to Yamago, but I don't see the three goals of Takahashi were obvious her faults. As for the first goal, Yamago couldn't have reached the ball either because she was lower in height than Ikeda. As for the second, the long pass before the shoot was superb (you can't see it in this video) and the DF was outrun by the FW. In this one-on-one situation, Yamago might have gone forward to give a pressure on the FW, so I'm not sure of the result in this case. As for the third, you should praise the FW who gave a nice shot in that crowded scene.
Unepomme, Women Barca is weak team, they are not representative in Champion's League and my team beat them, one of my international French player told me a day "they are so bad we will win again". My team will play friendly game agains't them this year again... Mumf, nothing particular with "Same" but it easy to talk with her now like was with Rumi after somes month, you know, they are kind and simple person after to be 2 good players, they don't live in another world where all people are stranger for them... I need to know who is international players still play for JFA Academy. Academy will come at my city next month with a list of youth players (around 8). International players are prority like Tanaka Yoko & Wada Naoko came last January. Since Tanaka signed with Inac but what about Kawashima Haruna Wada Naoko ? from U16 national team i can see somes JFA Academy players: inoue nene hirao chika miyake shiori narumiya yui norimatsu ruka masuya rika Chance both of they came. I waiting your informations about both them.
I know some people here are interested in good articles about women football in Japan (or women football at all), so I guess i'll link you to an article I liked; it's by some Sean Carroll. Beware, you have to scroll down the page I'm linking you to, if you want to read said article: its title is "Panda-ing to the masses" (funny title, you'll understand the reason ), the date is december the 13th. Let me know what do you think about it: http://sakkanihon.wordpress.com/
Well only one name is "famous" on the list and that's Narumiya who was MVP when Japan won the Asian AFC a few months ago. You can go back in the forum here, or simply google her up. That AFC site here has some very short videos too. Alsp found this for you, they were recently knocked out of the Cup (Saturday) and Tanaka, Wada, Kawashima, are all still there. http://www.jfa.or.jp/match/matches/2012/0101zennihon_joshi/schedule_result/pdf/m23.pdf Also I recognise Honda who I think was a u-17 World Cup sub. The captain Taguchi is cute but did not get to their WC. That's all that I see. How did Rumi's surprise party turn out? We know it happened.....
OK here is what I think of Yuki's play in the above video. I looked at it closely, even stopping the video as she enters the PK box and approaches the ball (which was slightly over-hit by Maruyama, but not by much at all). What I see is that she slows down as she arrives at the ball, having decided she did not have a worthwhile shot. Now when I compare it to Maruyama's goal (3:00 here) I believe that Yuki had a better angle and also was more ahead of the DF - I really think she had a clear shot on goal, with perhaps a 50-50 chance of scoring. Now what's more, Yuki knows she can score from there, her superb goal against Angerer in the German Cup Final just weeks before the WC is 1:00 here (maybe even the same stadium?) and this was more difficult - except that she did have to dummy the much closer DF then. But I still love Yuki
Geez, was it good! (thanks to you and especially to the supreme Moukoko, always giving all the gold to us...) I would probably have liked this wonderful "5 months from WWC 2011 win" video even more if I would have actually understood what the girls were saying (beyond obviousness, tied to the images). Maybe unepomme can tell us if there were really memorable sentences between all the things Sawa & Co. were saying? Anyway, what I probably liked best (but everything was indeed really good) was Saki Kumagai at school, getting her difficult time with German... ^__^ Oh, and also Yuki talking by telephone with her husband... What were they saying? Do they manage to meet from time to time? I mean: they should be a married couple, for god sake! ^__^
Godbye Urawa I knew it was the more open match of the four quarter finals... sigh. Ok, now who will I root for... ? It seems we will remain with Niigata, INAC and (most probably) Beleza and Belle. It's hard. I'll have to reflect a lot... Who did score for Niigata? My beloved Sakaguchi? Who did score at all, in both matches, really? Edit: about the schedule 2012... It's a good thing they come to Europe next year. I don't think I can go to Portugal for the Algarve Cup, but maybe, if they could come closer to me, I could go watching them at the stadium... (crossing fingers to get a friendly match Italy vs Nadeshiko Japan, although I know italian side is not strong enough to put up a good test for them ^__^). About the Olympics... anyone know how the knock-out stage will be built? I mean, I think there will be three seeded teams, one for each of the three groups, but how the seeded teams will be decided? Based on World's rankings? On previous Olympics' results? On both things? And will England automatically be a seeded team being the organizer? I hope not, because if England would be a seeded team, one between USA, Brazil and Japan should be out of the seeded teams, and it would probably be Japan both for World's rankings and 2008 Beijing's results (since the match for the gold was USA-Brazil), and so there could be a group with both USA and Japan, or Brazil and Japan, and that would be a very lopsided way to build three knock-out stage groups...
Kawamura scored for Niigata. Hedding after a corner kick confusion. Takase and Yonetsu scored for Inac. Today's result (the second games): Beleza 1-0 Iga (scorer is unknown.) Belle 2-0 Jef (Arimachi and Nakano) I was watching Niigata vs Urawa and Beleza vs Iga while sometimes sleeping. Niigata's defense was tight. Urawa was hardly able to threat Niigata's goal. This time, Arakawa went in replaced for Goto. NIigata's goal came at about 82 minute, Kawamura's heading after a corner kick confusion. Beleza is obviously a better side, but they are immature. They hurry to carry the ball forward after taking it, and waste the chance. Hara looked like the best player in the field, always anticipating the ball course and running a lot with good decision of choosing her play. She could be Sawa's successor. The semifinals: Inac vs Belle Niigata vs Beleza
Mmm, not sure who should I root for now... this four teams are all full of great players I like. Let's say this: I hope these will be nice semifinals, full of goals and good play So on 27 december we'll get Niigata-Beleza at 11:00 (Japan time) and INAC-Belle at 14:00 (Japan time). Any chance they can be followed live on some streaming-channel? Or at least the final match on 1 January 2012 can be seen live? Anyone knows? Edit: Lol, Same and Saki more and more friends! ^__^ They were at the stadium today (and eating meanwhile, it seems). What match were they watching? Beleza-Iga?
What did happen to Nahomi Kawasumi? Her left little finger seems twisted in this pic: is she injured? does anyone know more about what happened in this picture?
I think a defender trod on her left hand when avoiding bumping into her body. Some article says that although they didn't find broken bones, it bled a lot internally, so they will re-examine it. The coach says that she can't play even in the final, let alone the semi final. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIaxQwoMLs"]??????????? ?????????????? - YouTube[/ame] http://beebee2see.appspot.com/i/azuYwvG0BQw.jpg http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/photo/20111223-116263-1-L.jpg
They were in the Kumagaya (which is written the same way as Kumagai) Sports Culture Park, in Saitama watching the cup semi-final held there. Anyway the pic is used in another article which says that Nadeshiko Japan are now 3rd in FIFA Ranking for the first time ever, after US and Germany: http://www.sanspo.com/soccer/news/111223/scc1112232218000-n1.htm
Oh, sigh! Although it's an injury that shouldn't impact her fitness or her play, it's really annoying that she can't play the last matches of this cup. Let's hope there is really nothing broken and she can totally recover quite soon. Judging by the pics, it had to be really painful (she actually seems to be crying in last pic). Well, try to pass the best end of year anyway, Nahomi, despite the injury! Edit: what exactly did the writings in japanese before and after the replay of Kawasumi's injury say?
Mmm, Saitama is home to Urawa Red Ladies, right? So they were watching the quarter-final (not semi-final, sc-f, they still have to be played on next tuesday, haven't they?) involving Urawa? Kumagai was playing for Urawa Red Ladies, before going in Germany to 1.FFC Frankfurt, if I am not wrong. So, when she was playing for her previous club, Kumagai was playing in Kumagai stadium? That's really great! I guess the close-to-perfect record of London qualifier tournament in september gave Japan those point it needed to close the gap with Brazil. Anyone can answer what I previously asked here? This means that Japan will be one of the seeded teams in next summer's Olympics knock-out stage groups? Or is England supposed to be one of the seeded team as the organizer nation?
My bad, quarter finals. Seems like there were 2 held in that stadium on Friday. And no, I have to clarify: The prefecture is called Saitama too, this stadium is in Kumagaya-city in the Saitama-prefecture and is not the home stadium of the Urawa Reds Ladies.
Oh, ok, I had thought you were talking about Saitama-city, not the prefecture. Is Urawa club based in Saitama-city anyway? (I think they included previous Saitama Reinas club, didn't they?) Edit: if there were two matches in the same stadium, that's probably the reason why Same and Saki were eating: if they watched both games, they probably were at the stadium from 11:00 to 16:00 and for sure they needed to eat meanwhile (especially since it should be quite cold in Japan at the moment: I saw them play on the snow in some other pics)
http://www.sanspo.com/soccer/news/111224/scg1112240503002-n1.htm Beleza's win was in that stadium, and articles mentions again Same and Kumagai. Urawa-Niigata probably too. The city of Saitama is quite new, and consists of 4 cities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitama,_Saitama The snow pictures were from before, Sameshima and Kumagai went to Sendai in Miyagi prefecture to visit their high school and the govenor, if I recall right. I didn't read the articles thoroughly though...