For those of you who didn't get to see highlights from the Japan v Iran game, here is a video clip courtesy of irankicks football forum.

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(click photos to enlarge) Left: The Japan team makes the rounds of the stadium after the Iran game, thanking the crowds for their support during the entire qualifying process. Right: A nice photo of Team Melli during training this past weekend.

Thoughts about the game.

Japan's good points: The team, after the lackluster performance in the NK game during the EAFF Cup, did come back with a better attitude. From the get-go, they made a total effort to put pressure on the opponents, and their interceptions and checking forced the Iran side to pass around without much threatening moves forward. The defense line, which usually maintains a lower position than most supporters would like to see, became a little more bold this game and maintained a high line. continues

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Someone was kind enough to put up last week's Nihon tv programme Urugusu's segment on Celtic and Nakamura. Even if you don't understand Japanese you can get an idea of what is being said, but unfortunately they voice over all the English comments with Japanese. If you want to know what they are saying or what's going on in a specific portion of the clip, just leave a comment on this entry! :)

It's a silly fun segment, so no real meaty content but you get to see some off-pitch footage which is nice.