any of you guys know where there's a link to the Niigata Cup? Our youth, Mexico's u-18's, thrashed Niigata 7-1 recently according to our fed's site.
At the Niigata Cup, they beat Hungary in the first game but lost to Niigata representative team yesterday (0-2).
Iran U-16 destroyed U-16 Japan 4-1. We were the better side at every position and the scoreline should have been more in our favor.
congrats, if you can wait a minute I'll give you a candy. Japan loses against Niigata which was destroyed by Mexico but beats the Azteqs ... lolol good old Japan.
The Niigata selection must've been pretty good (they won the competition last year). That's not that rare at the youth level, where players don't compete with the teams from the other end of the country. Add to that also that players from regional selections usually know better each other than it's in youth national teams. One of the most memorable examples was the game between Tohoku and U-18 Japan in the Sendai International Cup. Kagawa played for Tohoku, players like Uchida, Yoshida, Makino, Yasuda, Havenaar played for the Japan. The result was 5:2 for Tohoku.
oh yeah sure we see that very often, your example is pretty good. My post was just about that weird logic of losing to a team which was destroyed by the guys they beat later.
Japan u-16 beat Iran 4-2 in the rematch. Looks like our friend didnt want to tell us about that though.
▽GK 1 長沢祐弥(藤枝東高) 23 林瑞輝(G大阪ユース) 18 田口潤人(横浜FMユース) ▽DF 22 酒井高聖(新潟ユース) 20 宮原和也(広島ユース) 3 中谷進之介(柏U-18) 15 宮本航汰(清水ユース) 2 石田崚真(磐田U-18) 6 佐々木渉(F東京U-18) 21 大西勇輝(京都U-18) 5 茂木力也(浦和ユース) ▽MF 8 杉本太郎(帝京大可児高) 12 水谷拓磨(清水ユース) 16 北川航也(清水ユース) 13 会津雄生(柏U-18) 7 渡辺凌磨(前橋育英高) 19 伊藤克尚(広島ユース) 4 鈴木徳真(前橋育英高) 17 三好康児(川崎F U-18) ▽FW 11 青山景昌(名古屋U18) 10 中村文哉(G大阪ユース) 9 小川紘生(浦和ユース) 14 杉森考起(名古屋U15) AFC U-16 Championship members First match is on September 23rd against Saudi Arabia
I've seen too few of these guys playing, Miyoshi, Aoyama, Nakatani, you probably know better SB2002 so who are for you the ones to watch ?
Watch out for the three Shimizu kids. All three of them are already starters for Shimizu Youth despite being promoted this year.
Disappointing that Okugawa from Kyoto Sanga U-18's is not there. He's another in the line of Kyoto strikers. Him and Tamura will almost definitely be promoted to the top team. It's just a shame that Kyoto Sanga have so many strikers. They really need to stop producing so many good ones. Their whole first team forward line-up could potentially be all home-grown in 2-3 years. Kubo, Miyayoshi, Mine, Tamura, Okugawa. Highly doubtful (someone will leave either Kubo or Miyayoshi), but just goes to show how strong their youth set-up is.
Yeah I would be surprised if one of Miyayoshi, Nakamura or Kubo doesn't leave for another team in the next J League though
Not really U17 but I thought it wouldn't be worth to open another thread. So, we're talking about... U13 here Japan made it to the final of the Danone Nations Cup, we lost to South Korea, I think on penalties. They won all their bracket matches on penalties, lol, we trashed Argentina in the semifinal and Spain in the quarter http://www.danonenationscup.com/en/results While some may think that such young tournaments don't mean much, I don't. Actually instead I think that they are very indicative. For example, it's extremely interesting that Thailand made it to the final against Brazil last year.
It's actually レジスタＦＣ representing Japan http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20120909-00000009-nksports-socc
Thanks! I remember that indeed that's how the qualifications were done for each country. A local tournament and then the best team is sent edit: damn Japan's no.9 is really good
Cool. Kind of like Baseball's Little League International World Series, where the winner of the domestic competition can represent their nation. very interesting. Young kids can taste a little bit of international game at their age level.
In preparation for the AFC U-16 Championships the Japan U-16 beat Armenia U-16's 7-0 then a couple days later they beat Armenia U-17's 7-0 http://web.gekisaka.jp/?u=/index.fc...xp0myW8&lpcat=nationalteam&twi=107060 http://web.gekisaka.jp/?u=/index.fc...xp0myW8&lpcat=nationalteam&twi=107060
Just a reminder that the first match of the AFC U-16 Championships is tomorrow against Saudi Arabia. It's being broadcasted on Fujitv so there might be a stream, but we'll have to see.