http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/NationalTeams/20031008193640/view every 15 minutes or so during the match. At least - that's the plan.
GK - Steve Cronin LB - CJ Klaas (yes, the left) CB Ryan Cochran CB - Chad Marshall RB - Jordan Stone DM - Ricardo Clark RM - Eddie Johnson ACM - Bobby Convey LM - Justin Mapp S - Arturo Alvarez S - Mike Magee I guess Eddie Johnson is becoming more and more like a winger type player... I guess similar to Emile Heskey where he played wing for sometime o btw, how did you get the updates since it is closed circuit... I could see you now with your binoculars on top of HD Roof!
Yep, Japan beats 10-man US 2-1 with two 2nd half goals, avenges WWII defeat. Freddy got a run out, as did Memo. Oh, and thanks for the updates GersMan. Your link was posted at a Japanese site - you have fans all over! Edit: so I'm reading on a Japanese site that Japn's first goal was scored by Daisuke Sakata, not Yutaro Abe. FYI, here's the Japanese squad. No idea on shirt numbers. Code: GK: Eiji Kawashima 1983.03.20 185cm 74kg Omiya Ardija Tetsuya Enomoto 1983.05.02 180cm 73kg Yokohama Marinos Masahiro Okamoto 1983.05.17 186cm 73kg JEF United Ichihara DF: Shusuke Tsubouchi 1983.05.05 180cm 70kg Vissel Kobe Makoto Tsunoda 1983.07.10 178cm 78kg Kyoto Purple Sanga Yuzo Kurihara 1983.09.18 183cm 73kg Yokohama Marinos Noya Kondo 1983.10.03 180cm 67kg Kashiwa Reysol Yuki Okubo 1984.04.17 177cm 71kg Sanfrecce Hiroshima MF: Yasuyuki Konno 1983.01.25 178cm 73kg Consadole Sapporo Daigo Kobayashi 1983.02.19 176cm 63kg Tokyo Verdy 1969 Satoru Yamagishi 1983.05.03 183cm 72kg JEF United Ichihara Kei Yamaguchi 1983.06.11 172cm 64kg Nagoya Grampus Eight Yuhei Tokunaga 1983.09.25 179cm 75kg Waseda University Yuta Baba 1984.01.22 175cm 64kg FC Tokyo Norio Suzuki 1984.02.14 177cm 72kg FC Tokyo Tatsuya Tanizawa 1984.10.03 175cm 68kg Kashiwa Reysol Yusuke Kondo 1984.12.05 180cm 75kg FC Tokyo Yohei Kajiyama 1985.09.24 176cm 64kg FC Tokyo U-18 FW: Daisuke Sakata 1983.01.16 173cm 65kg Yokohama Marinos Yuji Unozawa 1983.05.03 181cm 72kg Kashiwa Reysol Hirouki Hayashi 1983.10.05 187cm 80kg Avispa Fukuoka Hiroto Mogi 1984.03.02 174cm 71kg Sanfrecce Hiroshima Kisho Yano 1984.04.05 185cm 71kg Kashiwa Reysol Yutaro Abe 1984.10.05 182cm 73kg Yokohama Marinos
The first thing I notice: Japan's doing a whole lot better at getting younger players into professional clubs - college soccer is pretty big in Japan, but they have exactly one college player in their squad... The second thing I notice - are their players bigger than ours? Looks like it.
Well, it's much easier for Japanese to join a pro club. There are 28 J1 and J2 clubs, and each team has at least a satellite team (basically the reserves) and U-18. Compare that to MLS, with just 10 clubs spread out over a country 10 times as big, with strict roster size limits. When a top schoolboy player in Japan finishes high school, it's a matter of joining his local team, if he hasn't already done so earlier. An American schoolboy has a much lower chance of making an MLS roster, and more realistic options are going to college or trying his luck with a European club.
Eddie played more on the right side on the wing Saturday night for the Burn. We played more of a 4-4-2 but, most often, he drifted way out wide in more of a right wing position.