Official 2025 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

U17 male WC
Japan 2-0 Morocco
Japan 0-0 New Caledonia
Morocco 16-0 New Caledonia

AWCL
Beleza 4-0 Naegohyang
Suwon 5-0 ISPE
Beleza 1-0 ISPE
Naegohyang 3-0 Suwan

Is it only I who feel somewhat the same impression?

 

Hinata Miyazawa played entire UWCL match for ManU against PSG.

 

I cannot really speak for the men, but I imagine they played a weaker team against New Caledonia.

But why do the better teams in the WE League struggle to break down organized teams that sit deep. The main reason in my opiniion is that they are just not used to playing against teams that do this.

In the WE League most teams try and press higher up the pitch, so stronger teams do not have to break down teams quite so much. I also think that Beleza's manager is not that good, which was something I said back when he won the league with Urawa.

 

The game vs ISPE reminded me of the Nadeshiko vs Uzbekistan game a couple of years back. Do ISPE have any Japanese staff?

 

Yes, they say Tashiro Kumiko seems to be one of their coaches.

 

Still immature, not a regular starter in Jef, but often shows strong impact in limitted playing time. Huge potential.

 

My game of this weekend:

1 Japanese scorers playing abroad (the top league of England, Germany, USA, Holland, Sweden)(3, 20pts, perfect 3, 100pts, nobody 200 pts)
2 WE League scorers in Empress's Cup and Beleza in AWCL (5, 20pts, perfect 5, 200pts, nobody, 300pts)
3 WE teams which disappear from Empress's Cup (3, points are as written bellow, none 50pts)
Inac (110), Urawa (100), Mynavi (90), Albi (80), Regina (70), Ohmiya (60), Cerezo (50), Jef (40), Nojima (30), Nagano (20), Chifure (10)

 

Empress' Cup - 2nd round day 1

32 teams remain
WE L = 12
NL1 = 10
NL2 = 6
Uni = 4

There's a slim chance we'll get highlights of this round, JFAtv YouTube had highlights for the mens Emperors Cup starting with the 2nd round.

Morning
Chifure vs JFA (10:30)
Viama vs Nittaidai (11:00)
Inac vs Nihon Uni (11:00)
Regina vs Ichihara (11:00)
Nagano vs Bunnys (11:00)

Afternoon
Nojima vs Fujizakura (13:30)
Omiya vs Izumo (14:00)
Mynavi vs Ehime (14:00)
Cerezo vs Orca (14:00)
Nagoya vs OSA (14:00)



There was a reply to one of the JFA posts on Twitter/X asking why they don't play each game at one of the teams home stadium to boost attendance. They had a good point. Last week Setagaya vs Menina was played in Sendai with a free attendance of 214. If these two Tokyo teams had played at the Olympic Park stadium they might have had 2,000-4,000 paying attendance.

 

1 Nobody
2 Riko Yoshida, Miki Ito, Moka Hiwatari, Ririko Tanno, Mami Ueno
3 None

 

My answer:
1 Seike, Itamura, Tanikawa
2 Kawafune, Ohtake, Endo Yume, Nishio, Shimada
3 Regina, Chifure, Inac

 

I don't know whether she can play or not in the next match, but recently she didn't play due to poor health.

 

1. Kamogawa, Fujino, Tanikawa
2. Nishio, Tsuda, Yoshida, Nakashima, Takarada
3. None

 

You are being quite stingy with the points there buddy .
Even at 300 bazillion points there's very little chance to see all 12 WE league teams fail to score 1 goal between them in 12 games against lower tier teams.

 

1 Fujino (Man City), Itamura (Feyenoord), Seike (Brighton)
2 Shinjo (Beleza), Tago (Cerezo), Takase (Inac), Tsuda (Mynavi), Saito (Omiya)
3 none

 

Empress' Cup - 2nd round day 1 results



Chifure 0-1 JFA (Ito)

Viama (Fukumaru, Itakura) 2-3 Nittaidai (Kitazawa, Fujitani, Takahashi)

Inac (Michigami, Kuwahara, Kubota, Matsubara, Okuma) 5-0 Nihon Uni

Nagano (Mitani, Ouchi) 2-1 Bunnys (Takatsuka)

Regina (Ueno, Ogawa) 1-1 aet 2-1 Ichihara (Takeda)

Nojima (Sasai, Nebu, Kishikawa) 3-2 Fujizakura (Narisako, Kokaji)

Nagoya (Hemmi, Horiuchi) 2-0 OSA

Mynavi (og) 1-0 Ehime

Cerezo (og, Asayama, Shiragaki) 1-1 aet 3-1 Orca (Matsuo)

Omiya 0-0 aet 0-0 pk 6-7 Izumo

 

Did I read the caption correctly....temperature 31°C

 

So far it looks like this match will end in a draw.

 

They look like they would rather be out shopping

(Edit...I don't mean to imply shopping is a female only pastime...)