Yuji Nakazawa just signed a three-year contract with his current team Yokohama F Marinos. He had been tossing and turning for the past week trying to decide whether or not to take an offer from one of the European clubs (the club of focus was Bundesliga's Dortmund). If Nakazawa had taken the offer, he would have been the first defender to go abroad from Japan.The biggest factor in his decion-making process was the World Cup. Most would automatically assume that getting a gig with a Euro club would be the fastest way to getting on the World Cup Japan squad. That used to be the case... maybe three-four years ago. Heck, even one-two years ago. But in these past couple years, we've seen all sorts of positive and negative repercussions of playing abroad. I guess things are never that simple. continued
Waaaahhhhhh!
I forgot to set my alarm to wake up in time to watch the Confederations Cup final between Brazil and Argentina. The game started at 3:40 am Japan time.
...... .. ... .. . . . .sigh
I'm usually so good about these things.
Anyway, what a surprising result, huh? Brazil started off the Confederations Cup looking rather tired, and Argentina's been looking so strong lately that I wondered if this would be another victory for Argentina. But I guess not. I haven't seen any clips or highlights from the game yet so I have no clue what happened. If anyone did watch it and wants to fill me in by leaving a comment, please do! The author of this blog >>click posted the celebration photos from the game.
Thus concludeth the Confed Cup for this year. The final tally is pretty unsurprising. Brazil, then Argentina, then Germany (these guys are going to be quite a force by next year), then Mexico (who were the 'surprise' team of the Cup).
Speaking of Mexico, it's sad that their accomplishment this month was tainted by the whole doping scandal. The two players in question were sent home right after the group rounds finished, but not in time to stop them from starting in the games against Japan and Brazil. Fifa has said they need to look into the whole drug-screening process again, but really what can you do?
I forgot to set my alarm to wake up in time to watch the Confederations Cup final between Brazil and Argentina. The game started at 3:40 am Japan time.
...... .. ... .. . . . .sigh
I'm usually so good about these things.
Anyway, what a surprising result, huh? Brazil started off the Confederations Cup looking rather tired, and Argentina's been looking so strong lately that I wondered if this would be another victory for Argentina. But I guess not. I haven't seen any clips or highlights from the game yet so I have no clue what happened. If anyone did watch it and wants to fill me in by leaving a comment, please do! The author of this blog >>click posted the celebration photos from the game.
Thus concludeth the Confed Cup for this year. The final tally is pretty unsurprising. Brazil, then Argentina, then Germany (these guys are going to be quite a force by next year), then Mexico (who were the 'surprise' team of the Cup).
Speaking of Mexico, it's sad that their accomplishment this month was tainted by the whole doping scandal. The two players in question were sent home right after the group rounds finished, but not in time to stop them from starting in the games against Japan and Brazil. Fifa has said they need to look into the whole drug-screening process again, but really what can you do?
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