Official 2021 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

Looks like Japan has won 8-0 with Mexico in their second game played behind closed doors 16th June.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c9db39ecd4b2b6cdf6bb101a0b248c38bbfee8b7?source=rss

 

Strange... does BBC intend to show Chile vs. Team GB from replay? That match is scheduled to happen an hour before SWE-USA...

21st July schedule (CET)

 

Odd but that is what is on the programme guide for that date.Perhaps they anticipate higher viewing figures at that time

Edit....same games repeated in the evening at 1900hrs..2110hrs..2315hrs

Edit...Chile v Team GB....live on mainstream BBC2 at 0815 hrs as well as above

(If your private jet is still in operation there is room on my sofa for an extra viewer)

 

Nadeshiko League highlight:

 

Looks like we won't be seeing Momiki play at OL Reign anytime soon. It's probably the right choice for her.

OL Reign Forward Nicole Momiki Loaned to Linköpings FC through December 31, 2021

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— Seattle Reign FC (@reignfc) July 19, 2021

 

I guess her dual citizenship played big part why Reign signed Momiki.
Benstiti had no idea how to use her though and new interim coach Laity is from english school "pace and power". Moving back to Damallsvenskan looks like her only option now instead of bench warming and waiting for her contract to expire. Foot injury aside - she wasted 2 years in NWSL.

Officiating in NWSL is a joke. Bouhaddi was rightly red carded for DOGSO the other day and sent off with usual one game suspention but Reign appealed and NWSL has cut her a slack cancelling one game suspention.

 

By the way in 2022 FIFA will further test new rules of playin football.

things that will be tried:

• 2x30mins, when each half kicks off, the clock starts at 30 and counts down, with the clock also pausing when the ball goes out of play.
• unlimited number of subs
• yellow cards result in a spell in the sin bin, with players spending five minutes off the field when they get booked
• Kick-ins instead of throw-ins

I'd hate to see WWC 2023 serving as guinea pig for the sake of other FIFA tournaments.

 

I don't think they will succeed even with half of this ideas but none the less they would need to test them somewhere - my worry is women's football (and youth tourneys) as it's always been test ground for FIFA

 

Momiki......I was under the impression Japanese citizens could not have dual citizenship
One for unepomme to put us right on.

 

Momiki was born in the USA, but of course her nationality is Japan only.
I'm not well informed about dual citizenship itself. So I want to ask if someone can be an American and a German at the same time for example.

 

Sorry my bad, probably phrased it wrong. What I actually ment is Momiki as American born player does not use Reign's international slot.
The rule with international slots is funny anyway cuz international players with green card (like Marta) or those claiming heritage (like Momiki) aren't actually counted by NWSL as internationals.

 

Well, I don't have a problem with some of the rules, specially the first one, that would save us for useless "time losses". And that is a thing Japan could benefit for it.

Well, for ones better than for anothers. I have 15 hours of difference with Japan, so imagine the time for me

 

It’s a bit complicated.

The US allows dual citizenship.

Japan doesn’t officially allow dual citizenship but they don’t have any effective means to enforce the law. It’s hard to force someone to renounce citizenship from another country when that country probably doesn’t have the same laws as Japan. Hence many keep both of their nationalities.

I read somewhere that Momiki has kept both her American and Japanese nationalities. I assume athletes like Naomi Osaka do the same.

 

"The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics, as more athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and major sponsors ditched plans to attend Friday’s opening ceremony."

Oh well, let's see what happens in the next couple of days, imagine if the Olympics will actually be cancelled last minute after so much anticipation...

 

I was born in Germany and moved to the US. I became a US citizen but kept - thanks to a German law - my German citizenship. The US does not recognize my German passport, however, I can use my German passport when crossing EU borders. For the US, I am a US citizen only.

 

It is possible that for some countries the US allows dual citizenship, however, my guess is that athletes either are an exception or have a special visa. With the "pledge of allegiance", which is part of the ceremony becoming a citizen, one officially drops their native citizenship.

 

In Germany the public channels show everything that they don't cover on TV on their website instead (e.g. ARD and ZDF, though I'm pretty sure they are geoblocked. Still worth a try, right?).

 

Sapporo Group E
Just watched the other game in our group on live BBC TV
F.T.....Chile 0 Manchester City 2 (otherwise known as Team GB)

Eight City players in starting line up...some pretty poor defending from Chile and rather surprisingly a poor game from the great Christine Endler

BBC also showing our game.Hope everybody manages to pictures