Official 2019 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

blissett · Nov 17, 2019

International update from this week will be quite short:

NWSL has finished 20 days ago; meanwhile Aussie-W-League has started this week-end. In the recent past, many players had transferred from one league to the other, and there have been Japanese players having success in the down-under league (last season it was Kinga and Nagasato), but I've scouted line-ups from this first match-day and no Japanese players appear in them. Since Aussie-W-League (as NWSL) has 9 teams, one of them have to rest each match-day: at this round, it was Brisbane Roar, the club where Yuki Nagasato had played last season, but I gave a look at their roster as it's shown on the league's website and there is no trace of Yuki (not that I expected to find her: if such an important trasfer had actually happened, we would have got some news about it).
It's not impossible that some players decide to join in while the league is underway already, but at the moment it looks like we don't need to follow 2019-2020 Australian League, at least by a "Japanese players' performance" point of view.

Many leagues are in break because of the recent Euro 2021 qualifiers played by respective NTs; ÖFB Frauen-Bundesliga is actually even in winter break and will only resume in March, so don't be surprised if you won't hear about Saya Kawasaki and Kanako Fuse in the upcoming months: let's hope that, by March, Wacker Innsbruck will do something to correct their situation, but I won't hold my breath about it and I feel like by now they're relegation fodder already.

DFB Frauen-Bundesliga is in break also, but it is a short one instead and anyway this week-end a round of DFB-Pokal (national cup) has been played. SC Freiburg lost at home by 2-3 to 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam. Hikaru Naomoto, as it often happens these days, was just sitting on the bench as an unused sub. Division 2 was in break also.

Spanish Liga Femenina wasn't in break but it was in strike, as mentioned by @pierre bezukhov, so no games this week for our players.

As it was mentioned above by @frohike, the best news this week come from Division 1 Féminine:

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Another header by Kumagai against PSG. This is a good one
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Seriously, if French clubs don't learn how to defend OL on Corner Kicks, the Lyonnais team will run away once again with the title (as they're basically doing after this win vs their main domestic rival): normally, it's Renard striking from CK action; yesterday, she wasn't on the pitch so it was our Saki's turn. From scoring her first goal with NT to scoring the winner in the title-decider match of French League: not bad.
Official highlights on Division 1 Féminine's YT channel haven't been uploaded yet, but you can anyway see the video of Saki's goal: please notice the preparation, when Hegerberg whispered something in her ear before the Corner Kick:

https://streamable.com/pxgy9

Finally, after the exciting news, the depressing ones: Sassuolo-Tavagnacco 2-0 (Sabatino struck again after recently scoring three goals in Italy NT's matches vs Georgia and Malta). Kunisawa and Kato were both on the pitch. Tavagnacco are currently one-to-last in the rankings.

blissett · Nov 17, 2019

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I've scouted line-ups from this first match-day and no Japanese players appear in them.
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Sorry, I must have become blind : Yukari Kinga was actually back at Melbourne City and yesterday she played a full away game vs Newcastle Jets, that ended in a 1-1 draw!

unepommekun · Nov 17, 2019

Today's result:

Promotion/relegation playoff

Niigata (Yonezato, Shinohara, Nakae) 3-0 Fujizakura

Manchester Nadeshiko · Nov 18, 2019

Does anybody know if Nadeshiko Japan are competing in the She Believes Cup or the Algarve Cup in March 2020.
Usual searches are drawing a blank (but I'm not very internet savvy)
Would be grateful for any help.....Cheers

pierre bezukhov · Nov 18, 2019

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True, but it's a fact that probably Liga Femenina has the opposite problem to the one other women's league have that don't have a high number of teams: they have 16 instead in 1st Division and this, as much popular as women's football can be in Spain, is probably hardly sustainable.
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Yeah the level of football at times - from what I have seen so far - is pretty bad. Obviously there is some good football being played and there are some very good players, but there is not much depth by the looks of it. It makes me wonder what the level of football is like in other leagues.

The Nadeshiko League right now is pretty good, so whatever they do regarding a professional league I think it is wise to keep the number of teams low. We want good players playing against each other.

In the case of Sumida, I've got the impression that, along with the problem you talk about that it's so much harder to shine in Sendai than it is in Beleza, that particular player was maybe a tad overrated at the time when she was almost a regular starter in NT. Back then, I always thought that she was good, but actually not really "special"
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I agree with you. The thing is though, she is a good player in my opinion. But she moves to Sendai and she does not improve them. If anything they were worse this year.

It is not her fault, because it is much harder for her to make a difference. And it is the same for any other good player in a mediocre team. They can be doing good things with limited opportunity, but it will not be noticed as much.

Fuka Kono for me is a very good example of this. I think she is as good as any of the young players at Beleza right now. I know that is a big call, but she has some serious talent in my opinion.

I am sorry for banging the same drum, but I have been thinking about this a lot. Even watching Young Nadeshiko last week I was made to think about it.

Manchester Nadeshiko · Nov 20, 2019

The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking - News - Argentina building on positives - FIFA.com

Something look familiar?

blissett · Nov 20, 2019

Manchester Nadeshiko said: ↑

Something look familiar?
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Lol, I suppose the jersey were from the same lazy technical sponsor.

pierre bezukhov · Nov 21, 2019

An article about the proposed new women's league in Japan.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports...akes-leap-new-womens-pro-league/#.XdY-k9UzbIU

unepommekun · Nov 21, 2019

Tomorrow's games:

Empress's Cup second round

Beleza vs Yamato 10:30
Nagano vs Menina 13:30
Albi vs Hokkaido Bunkyo Meisei high school 14:00
Jef vs Sakuyo high school 11:00
Urawa vs Tokiwagi high school 10:30
Iga vs Niigata University of Health and Welfare 13:30
Inac vs Fujieda Junshin high school 11:00 (net TV)
Cerezo vs Belle 14:00 (net TV)

http://www.jfa.jp/match/empressscup_2019/tv.html

Lechus7 · Nov 22, 2019

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Beleza vs Yamato 10:30
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It's actually Menina that will play vs Yamato as Beleza players are on trip to Korea.

Real test for Menina young players as Beleza is aiming to write the history, for the first time with four Cups won in one season.

unepommekun · Nov 22, 2019

Lechus7 said: ↑

It's actually Menina that will play vs Yamato as Beleza players are on trip to Korea.

Real test for Menina young players as Beleza is aiming to write the history, for the first time with four Cups won in one season.
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Please take a look at the game below Beleza.

Lechus7 · Nov 22, 2019

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Please take a look at the game below Beleza.
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*face palm

unepommekun · Nov 23, 2019

Today's result:

Empress's Cup second round
Beleza (Endo, Matsuda, Kobayashi, KanNo) 4-0 Yamato
Urawa (Shiokoshi, Osafune, Sugasawa 2, Seike, Kurishima) 6-0 Tokiwagi
Inac (Masuya, Iwabuchi 2) 3-0 Fujieda
Jef (Narumiya) 1-2 Sakuyo (Ise, Okamoto)
Young Nadeshiko member Morita belongs in Sakuyo

Iga (Mori, Ogawa, Nishikawa, Sugita 4) 7-0 Niigata
Cerezo (Takawa 2, Yakata, Kitamura) 4-0 Belle
Albi 8-0 Bunkyo Meisei
Nagano 3-1 Menina

unepommekun · Nov 23, 2019

Tomorrow's games:

Empress's Cup second round
Nippatsu vs Teikyo Heisei University 11:00
Nittaidai vs Waseda University 11:00
Chifure vs Nagoya 10:30
Orca vs Harima 14:00
Setagaya vs Shizuoka 13:30
Mynavi vs JFA 10:30
Nojima vs Bunnys 13:30
Ehime vs Speranza 14:00

unepommekun · Nov 23, 2019

P.S.
JFA TV
Nippatsu vs Teikyo Heisei
Ehime vs Speranza

unepommekun · Nov 24, 2019

Today's result:

Empress's Cup second round
Chifure (Tajima, Nakamura, Kinoshita) 3-0 Nagoya
Mynavi (Sato, Arimachi) 2-1 JFA (Iwai)
Nittaidai (Shimada)1-0 Waseda
Nippatsu (Tachibana, Takahashi)1-1 (extra time 1-0) Teikyo Heisei (Imada)
Orca (Urashima) 1-0 Harima
Nojima (Ishida, Matsubara) 2-0 Bunnys
Setagaya 0-1 Shizuoka (Shiroshita)
Ehime 0-0 (extra time 0-0) (PK 4-3) Speranza

unepommekun · Nov 25, 2019

U17 France tour members (November 30-December 8):

GK
Noda Asuka (Jumonji)
Ishida Kokona (Ohsaka Gakugei)
Takeshita Kanasa (Daisho Gakuen)

DF
Sugisawa Mihoshi (Jumonji)
Kodama Kirara (Jef U18)
Momono Miyuka (Cerezo Girls)
Tsukiji Iku (Tokoha Tachibana)
Matsumoto Nao (Cerezo Girls)

MF
Ito Megumi (JFA)
Watanabe Urara (JFA)
Yamasaki Aimi (Inac Leonchina)
Matsuhisa Kanna (Jumonji)
Takawa Serika (Cerezo Girls)
Nakayama Misaki (Nojima Doe)
Yamada Mizuho (Hinomoto)
Murata Rina (Jumonji)
Fuchigami Nonoka (Jef U18)

FW
Iwai Ran (JFA)
Shimada Mei (Urawa youth)
Ohnishi Wakana (Urawa youth)
Kurita Sora (Hinomoto)

Lechus7 · Nov 25, 2019

Both matches of first round AFCWCC2019 are scheduled run live in Naver TV

https://tv.naver.com/l/livehome (translate the page)

https://tv.naver.com/l/schedule (translate the page)

Beleza play Jiangsu at 3:45pm local time (7:45am for me in PL) and Incheon v Melbourne at 7:00pm (11am)

you can probably watch it for free but need to install software first from Naver homepage (and also what was in my case - plugin for Chrome web browser).

SBS Viceland may also show the games (unconfirmed)

blissett · Nov 25, 2019

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Beleza play Jiangsu at 3:45pm local time (7:45am for me in PL)
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I am going to miss it because at work: good luck to the Green Machine!

Lechus7 · Nov 25, 2019

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I am going to miss it because at work: good luck to the Green Machine!
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I'll try to download the match if possible and place it on yt later

Lechus7 · Nov 26, 2019

Matchday 1

Lechus7 · Nov 26, 2019

Manchester Nadeshiko · Nov 26, 2019

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Matchday 1

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Nice one

Manchester Nadeshiko · Nov 26, 2019

Well taken goal

Manchester Nadeshiko · Nov 26, 2019

1-1 nice one Mina