2月11日。#3
日本がSquad発表したので、豪州でもその話が出ました。ネット上のみだが。Japan call in big gunsNakamura will join Eintracht Frankfurt's Junichi Inamoto, Saint-Etienne's Daisuke Matsui, VfL Wolfsburg's Makoto Hasebe and Yoshito Okubo for the home tie at the Yokohama stadium on February 11."Australia are the top team in Asia. No other Asian teams have such solid individual skills as Australia," Okada told reporters."We've improved our squad so we can beat such an excellent team," he said.In the final qualifying round Group A, Australia leads the table with three wins for nine points, followed by Japan on seven points and Qatar on four points. Bahrain and Uzbekistan each have one point.The top two teams will qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, while the third-placed team will have to survive playoffs.Playing with only two of their Europe-based players, Japan suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to Bahrain in an Asian Cup qualifier on Wednesday, triggering new media calls to fire Okada."We learn from defeat but we don't change our tactics because of defeat. We just play our best against Australia," said Okada, who took the job after Bosnian tactician Ivica Osim suffered a stroke in late 2007.Okada doubted that many of the Europe-based players other than Nakamura would join the team for their February 4 tune-up friendly against Finland."Only Shunsuke is likely to join us earlier, because Celtic's opponents are a third-division team, so I expect Celtic to agree to let him join us earlier."Brazilian-born defender Marcus Tulio Tanaka will also be back from a left knee injury, while goalkeepers Seigo Narazaki and Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi were sidelined due to injuries.Japan SquadGoalkeepers: Ryota Tsuzuki (Urawa Red Diamonds), Eiji Kawashima (Kawasaki Frontale), Takanori Sugeno (Kashiwa Reysol)Defenders: Shuhei Terada (Kawasaki Frontale), Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama Marinos), Kazumichi Takagi (Gamba Osaka), Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa), Yuichi Komano (Jubilo Iwata), Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo), Michihiro Yasuda (Osaka), Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers)Midfielders: Shunsuke Nakamura (Celtic/SCO), Hideo Hashimoto (Osaka), Junichi Inamoto (Eintracht Frankfurt/GER), Yasuhito Endo (Osaka), Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki), Daisuke Matsui (Saint-Etienne/FRA), Yasuyuki Konno (FC Tokyo), Makoto Hasebe (VfL Wolfsburg/GER), Shinji Kagawa (Cerezo Osaka)Forwards: Keiji Tamada (Nagoya Grampus), Seiichiro Maki (JEF United Chiba), Yoshito Okubo (Wolfsburg/GER), Tatsuya Tanaka (Urawa), Shinji Okazaki (Shimizu S-Pulse) 30 January 2009 | 21:30 - AAP (SBS the World Game)豪州でもかなり「日本はキツイ相手」という認識が高く、別のところで(どこだか忘れたが)「W杯Qualiferで最もキツイ相手はどこだと思うか?」というアンケートでは80数%がJapanだと答えている。> Playing with only two of their Europe-based players, Japan suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to Bahrain in an Asian Cup qualifier on Wednesday, これちょっと気になるんだが、バーレーン戦って2人欧州組いたの? 日本のメディアが「欧州組はいなかった」って書いてあったの見たけど。どっちが正しいの? すまんが自分で調べる気があったりなかったり。ほとんどなかったり。(どっちだよ)> "We learn from defeat but we don't change our tactics because of defeat. We just play our best against Australia," said Okada,・・・we don't change our tactics because of defeatってどーなんだ? こっちに対する揺さぶりか? オカちゃんなら揺さぶる揺さぶらない関係なくやりかねんが。> Brazilian-born defender Marcus Tulio Tanakaとーりおってこんな名前なんだー。なんか納得したー。つか日本人名に改名したんなら「Torio」だと思うんだが。日本語にL音はないぞ。こっちのSquadっていつ発表になるんだろ。そろそろ出ると思うけど。まあでもいつものメンツだよね。誰か隠し球はおらんのか。・・・おらんよな。DFのメンツがちょっと変わるだけだろう。攻撃陣は変えようがないよな。→コメントはコチラへ