Hi, guys: it's been a very difficult year for my personal health, so I can only hope 2025 will be better... Thus, you will forgive me if I limit this introduction to the bare minimum. We now have our shiny new Nadeshiko thread for the new year and, incidentally, we also have a new coach for our favourite National Team. Let's hope he will do good, or at least as good as possible, given the various circumstances. I am aware many of us are quite skeptical about a non-Japanese coach: let's cut him some slack, at least at the beginning, and then we're going to see. Meanwhile, we'll also have WE League, Empress' Cup, Nadeshiko League and all the leagues overseas that are filled with Nadeshiko internationals to follow (along with youth tournaments, regional leagues and all of the countless matches we like to watch or to even just read about here! ). It will be another exciting here of Japanese Women's Football. I am especially thrilled by the AFC Women's Champions' League and by the chance that Japan can secure the first official Asian title for clubs, after winning the non-official one last year. Anyway, since my post is very short and only scratched the sufarce of it all, feel free to start posting here by expressing your wishes for the year that just started and by telling us which competitions or events you are particularly looking forward to.
RB Omiya VENTUS just signed Yuma Saito from Viamaterrasu Miyazaki. https://www.rbomiya.com/ventus/news/?id=43750 I don't think she is the only kind of player that Omiya need right now. How many players are still injured, 3-4?
I have to admit that it lets me down a little that such an impressive player signs for the current worse team of the WE League. Let's hope it somehow changes if the Red Bull sponsor decides to invest some more money along the road...
Imo Oshima could really make a difference on the field but she is injured. Hayashi was also injured for a while at the beginning of the season. After her injury (ACL), Goshima never reached the expectations we could wait from her. As I said in a previous post, 4-5 players were injured with an ACL injury within 18 months during training sessions which was quite worrying. Let's wait and see the strategy that RB will build in the next few months, only money ? Synergy with the clubs that have a women's team : Paris FC, Leipzig ?
The AFC Women’s Champions League knockout stage draw ceremony will finally take place next week. Another milestone looms as the official #AWCL Knockout Stage draw ceremony takes place with 8️⃣ teams still on course for glory in this campaign! 📆 January 8⏰ 3 PM (GMT+8)https://t.co/44lVUzY0Rl— AFC Women’s Football (@TheAWCL) January 2, 2025 Urawa is in Pot 1 which means they will play the quarter-final at ''home'' on March 22nd or 23rd 2025 and could be drawn against Abu Dhabi Country Club (UAE), Bam Khatoon FC (IRN) or Wuhan Jiangda Women’s FC (CHN).
I don't know about the other teams at all, but of course you should watch the second live; ever strong Fujieda Junshin vs kind of a sister of Cerezo youth Ohsaka Gakugei.
Well, Happy new year everyone, I wish our ladies will give us more happiness than sadness this year, and in my personal hope, I wish the WE League start to work better, please.
TWO nominations for @brisbaneroar's Momo Hayashi in the same month?! 🔥Vote for your favourite Isuzu UTE Goal of the Month in the poll below 👇#ALW #GOTM pic.twitter.com/5rhxXvM6Yi— Ninja A-League (@aleaguewomen) January 3, 2025
Tomorrow's games: University Championship semifinal Toyo vs Nittaidai 11:00 Waseda vs Yamanashi Gakuin 14:00 https://www.youtube.com/@一般財団法人全日本大
Today's result: University Championship semifinal Toyo (Kitaoka) 1-1 (et 0-1) Nittaidai (Azumi, Shibahara) Waseda (Munakata) 1-2 Yamanashi Gakuin (Miyamoto, Ito) U18 Championship quarterfinal Inac (Yamawaki, Kojima 2, Terada, Nomura, Tanaka) 6-0 Nagoya Mynavi (Tsuda, Asazaka, Watanabe, Sato, Hoshino, Miyazaki, Miura, Uchida) 8-1 Regina (Kaneko) Menina (Shinjo) 1-0 Nojima Cerezo (Tamamura 3, Ikeda, Yotsumoto) 5-0 Setagaya
Good result by Yamanashi Gaukin... even more so when you consider that Aemu Oyama was directing the play for Waseda in the middle of the park.
These four teams were almost even. Each one has several good players who can be central bones of a team. Especially, apart from the JFA decignated players, Ito in Yamanashi was the most impressive. She appeared everywhere in attacking zones, looked more threatening than Kimoto.
Very predictable best 4. I don't know why Urawa is not here, but three but Inac have a lot of U17 NT members. In the teams which left in the first round, Shonan, Albi and Ehime seemed close to them. Especially Ehime Mikan was beaten by Inac in the PK shootout. In fact, this competition may be higher in level than highschool one, so I want to watch it more; at least from semifinal.
Just thinking....3rd round 3 Jan...1/4 finals 5th Jan...semis 7th Jan...that's some schedule for 33rd All Japan High School Womens Football Championships Hope theres a Fujieda/Daisho semi to look forward to after tomorrow (Your predictions Unepomme?) Ps...Fujieda game yesterday...101 thousand views on you Tube channel
Tokiwagi Gakuen High School vs Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School https://tver.jp/live/special/le58bc44ei Daisho Gakuen High School vs Seiwa Gakuen High School https://tver.jp/live/special/ley5xq3ddc Kamimura Gakuen High School vs Shugakukan High School https://tver.jp/live/special/le7a8o54ie Sakuchosei High School vs Fujieda Junshin High School https://tver.jp/live/special/leu6uvy4cc Might be blocked for us though.
18-year-old Japanese forward Mao Itamura 板村真央 will join Feyenoord as a trial player in training camp at Qatar
I watched the second half of Daisho vs Seiwa Gakuen. It was a really even good game; powerful and aggresive Daisho vs technical passing football Seiwa. I was attracted by Seiwa, so wanted to watch their play more.
A couple of transfers to Urawa. From Orca - Matsuo Mizuki. https://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/redsladies/ladies_news/松尾美月選手、完全移籍加入のお知らせ/ ♦️松尾美月選手、完全移籍加入のお知らせ♦️このたび、2024シーズンにオルカ鴨川FCに所属しておりました #松尾美月 選手が完全移籍で加入することとなりましたので、お知らせいたします。選手コメントはこちら▶https://t.co/eLYnFbXv0P#三菱重工浦和レッズレディース#WEリーグ#サッカー… pic.twitter.com/B2N36RTigW— 三菱重工浦和レッズレディース公式 (@REDSLADIES) January 5, 2025 From Nippatsu - Madoka Sakurai https://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/redsladies/ladies_news/櫻井まどか選手、完全移籍加入のお知らせ/ ♦️櫻井まどか選手、完全移籍加入のお知らせ♦️このたび、2024シーズンにニッパツ横浜FCシーガルズに所属しておりました #櫻井まどか 選手が完全移籍で加入することとなりましたので、お知らせいたします。選手コメントはこちら▶https://t.co/2H8tu90BpG#三菱重工浦和レッズレディース#WEリーグ… pic.twitter.com/2VB72vu04i— 三菱重工浦和レッズレディース公式 (@REDSLADIES) January 5, 2025