Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Wow, 4-2 Kumiyama! Chukyodaichukyo had very little besides Miyaichi.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Even when they were leading I didnt have much confidence that Chukyo would go far. Their defence sucked, and apart from Miyachi and the one other striker, their attack was pretty weak as well. Its a shame he didnt have some decent teammates. I would have liked to see him at least one more time.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] His pace and crossing ability were amazing.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Guys, but we need to give some kudos to Kumiyama as well. I expected them to be wiped away, but they really played well and deserved it. They don't have any amazing player (except perhaps #14 Adachi, who is not very strong physically, thou...), but they all did their part egregiously. In all honesty, if Ritsumeikan Uji would have made it, we would have probably lost. We don't have Kumiyama's passing skill and our weak spots were the GK and the two side backs...
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Here are the scores so far: First Round 30 Dec Komazawa University HS 2-1 Ozu HS First Round 31 Dec Akisho HS 0-4 Kyushu International Boys' HS Chukyo University Chukyo HS 2-4 Kumiyama HS Kashima Gakuen HS 2-1 Oita Tsurusaki HS Komaba HS 1-6 Takigawa Gakuen HS Maebashi Ikuei HS 4-1 Kamimura Gakuen HS Maruoka HS 1-3 Hatsushiba Hashimoto HS Matsusho Gakuen HS 5-5 Yasu HS (PK 3-4) Muroran Otani HS 2-0 Yokkaichi Chuo Technical HS Seibudai HS 3-0 Kagawa Nishi HS Seiryo HS 2-0 Tokushima Commercial HS Shizuoka Gakuen HS 2-0 Yonago Kita HS Shoshi HS 2-0 Saga Kita HS Teikyo Kani HS 1-2 Rissho University Shonan HS Tono HS 0-3 Uwajima Higashi HS Zama HS 1-0 Kashiba HS
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Blegh... I did not watch the 1st amazing half. I watched 2nd half and dissapointed with the result. Chukyodai always being attacked, the better team won though... congrats! Yes you are right, I ended up with upset and tired eyes. But it is fun to watch ... still many students besides Miyaichi are also talented, thats the bottom line
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Miyaichi was of another planet. But the rest of his team... well...
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Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Miyaichi is unlucky I'd say... 2 clear chances but he cant make any. Maybe he start to get the pressure from media in carrying Arsenal name or still not 100% fit
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Thanks to all the Tokyo-area stations and the internet feed of Chukuo-Kumiyama, I got to see parts of four matches. Of the ones I saw Seibudai probably was the most impressive team but even they were not world-beaters. From what Ive heard the early money is on two perrennial powers -Maebashi Ikuei and Takigawa. Wouldve loved to see the Matsusho - Yasu match, though. . . . . .
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] "My article" on Miyaichi http://tinyurl.com/miyaichi
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] hmm they are calling Higuchi from Takigawa "Okazaki II"? his school won against Kashima's today, he scored again ... any prospect already? maybe Goru or Matsu know edit: just saw some old article, he looks very similar, they were born april 16th, both same hometown, went to same school? wow
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Sunday's results: Second Round 02 Jan Haguro HS 1-3 Kansai University Daiichi HS Hatsushiba Hashimoto HS 0-3 Shoshi HS Hiroshima Minami HS 0-2 Aomori Yamada HS Kyushu International Boys' HS 1-2 Seibudai HS Maebashi Ikuei HS 4-0 Muroran Otani HS Mizuhashi HS 1-2 Naha Nishi HS Miyagi Prefecture Technical HS 0-2 Nissho Gakuen HS Niigata Nishi HS 3-1 Ube HS Ryutsu Keizai University HS Kashiwa 2-0 Meitoku Gijuku HS Sano Nihon University HS 1-2 Sakuyo HS Seiryo HS 0-0 Komazawa University HS (PK 2-4) Shizuoka Gakuen HS 2-0 Uwajima Higashi HS Takigawa Gakuen HS 4-1 Kashima Gakuen HS Yamanashi Gakuin University HS 3-1 Kunimi HS Yasu HS 2-3 Rissho University Shonan HS Zama HS 1-2 Kumiyama HS
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Video about Shibasaki [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciROFXAKHKc"]YouTube - ??? Shibasaki Gaku[/ame] I really hope that he plays next season.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Does anybody know where we can download/watch recordings of any of the games? In particular of Yamanashi Gakuin.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Is there (could there be) any attempt at seeding the schools? I'm planning to go see the semis and am disappointed that out of Yamanashi, Maebashi, Ryutsu Keizai, Shizuoka, Takigawa and Aomori - six of the "big names" - no more than two will be playing. I've been to some pretty one-sided semis, and even finals, in the past. Seems a pity...
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] You're too generous. They have been a disgrace to Aichi prefecture for years. No spirit and even less tactical nous. The only reason they get to the finals is that the level of high school football is so low here - and they seem to turn up talents like Miyaichi. I just hope he won't end up as another Sho Ito.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Ok, I don't rate my own school (Ritsumaikan Uji) too high this year: as said, we had only seven third-graders (12th graders), and only four of them know how to play football. Still, Kumiyama struggled to beat us, when we had six 2nd graders and one 1st grader on the pitch. Now they have made it to the best-8, and mostly by playing good football. Adachi and Sugimoto have grown into very good high school players, and Hayashi is quite amazing as a first grader. I don't know how far they can go, so far they met teams that seemed even weaker than Ritsumeikan Uji, hopefully the quarter-final will tell us something, as they will probably meet Osaka Daigaku First -- a rather kick-ass team. On any case, kudos to the boys, ordinary footballers at a public school with a bumpy hard ground, and to their coach Matsumoto, a lovely soccer ojisan.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Wow. Shizuoka Gakuen and Maebashi out at penalties... Kansai derby ahead on the 5th, that should be a hell of a game.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] FYI (and [not!] to show off), Miyaichi's article on goal.com was the article that had the most single hits ever for the Asia section, now around 20,000. -- Thanks Arsenal fans!! In comparison articles on J.League are sometimes as low as 1,000 hits...
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Monday's results: Third Round 03 Jan Maebashi Ikuei HS 1-1 Ryutsu Keizai University HS Kashiwa (PK 1-3) Naha Nishi HS 1-4 Kumiyama HS Nissho Gakuen HS 0-0 Shizuoka Gakuen HS (PK 4-3) Rissho University Shonan HS 5-1 Niigata Nishi HS Sakuyo HS 0-2 Seibudai HS Shoshi HS 0-1 Kansai University Daiichi HS Takigawa Gakuen HS 2-0 Aomori Yamada HS Yamanashi Gakuin University HS 1-0 Komazawa University HS
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] We complained about the dumb blind draft, but actually many of the big guns fell against allegedly lowly opponents... Only Yamanashi and Kansai Uni. 1st seem to have survived among the favorite, and at this point I am not sure the latter will easily dispose of Kumiyama.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] Were they really outplayed, or were they just not focused enough? It's such an intense tournament. I watched Hiroshima Kannon outplay their opponents for 75 minutes last year then lose it in the last five, it was crazy. Sometimes I think these boys need inhuman powers of concentration to make it all the way.
Re: The 89th All-Nippon High School Tournament Official Thread [R] I was assuming that Takigawa and Ryutsu Keizai were among the favourites, but that is not so? I guess the level changes so much from year to year that it must be tricky to judge. One way to get rid of "big guns" seems to be to practice your penalty-taking and then play defensive for eighty minutes! Not a bad plan in such an intensive tournament. Anyway, I guess we are all behind Kumiyama now