Arsène Wenger

I'd like to talk about Arsène Wenger. He is the most famous soccer leaders in England premier league, because he got the title of premier league conquest as foreign supervisor of Arsenal FC for the first time. He is known as a different supervisor in terms of commanding soccer team for a long time.


His carrier is very unique. He used to lead Japanese professional soccer team /Nagoya Grampus. Before he came to Japan, he had lead AS Monaco that was noble club in France. He had wonderful results there. But his team was bad condition in a certain year; he was fired and came to Japan in order to put distance with European soccer. In those days, Japanese soccer league was established several years ago and unnamed. Nagoya Grampus is very week team and hovered around the lowest rank of the year. But thanks to his abilities, his team made rapid progress in short a time. Furthermore, his team could fight for championship.


While he was successful in Japan, he received a new offer from European club. And he said good-bye with Nagoya in only one year and came back to European.


In a new field, he obtained several titles and was called a famous commander. His soccer is fit for Arsenal FC. He is good at discovering young player who will be worldwide in the future. Arsenal FC is not affluent team compared with other European big club, so his ability to discover young players is very economical and very important for Arsenal FC.

I wish him to get a title of UEFA champions league in the near future.

The opening of World Cup preliminaries

The preliminaries of World Cup Began at September, 6 in Europe. In similar to the preliminaries of Euro, The preliminaries of World Cup will be a severe contest.

I will tell you the European champion, Spain's result.


06/09
Grp 5
Spain
1-0
Bosnia-Herzegovina

Spain showed a remarkable ability against Bosnia Herzegovina. Spain got only 1 point,
no one would complain about there performance.

Spain always controlled the match, Bosnia Herzegovina had no means to cope with Spanish attacks.

Key players in this match was David Villa and Marcos Senna. David Villa was obviously MVP, because he got winning point. But we must not forgot the fact that he failed penalty kick. It was a very rare accident for him.

Marcos Senna was also an impressive player. In that match, He always runs to prevent an error, and aims middle shout. Especially, his middle shout was very effective.

Marcos Senna is just like Makélélé with explosive attacking ability.

I think, Spain showed the dignity as the European champion in this match. But a lot of adversity wait Spain, because, Spain was examined by all nations in Euro.

Fernando Torres's injury is a big severe wound. Whether Spain can pass a severe preliminary contest or not is up to Villa.

Ivica Osim, Ивица Осим

IvicIvica Osim,（Ивица Осим） is one of the famous and very popular soccer leaders. He is originally from Yugoslavia in Sarajevo. When he was a professional soccer player, he was very fair player, because he was never taken yellow card in his days of player. He played an active part as a national team of Yugoslavia, and took part in Tokyo Olympic.


After he retired a soccer player, he became a soccer leader in a hometown. Several years later he was an assistant coach of national team and his team got a bronze medal in Los Angeles Olympic. Furthermore, he took office as a national team coach several years later. Though he missed participation of UERO in 1988, his team wonderfully got a participation of World cup in Italy, won and advanced to the best 8.


After he lead an European club team, he commanded a Jef United Ichihara/Chiba, and he let his team make rapid progress. His team got a title for the first time, and his abilities were accepted and headhunted by Japan Football Association as national team coach.


His coaching method is very unique and many national players had a hard time until they could understand his theory of soccer. He is also known as an eloquent speaker, and his words are very witty. I am a believer of his word!!

An Unbelievable Mistake

Zinedine Zidan is the greatest fantasista in the football world. He used to the captain of France national team, and led to World cup conquest.However, he made an unbelievable mistake. Zidane head butted Materazzi while playing a the final in World cup, Germany. So I would like to describe why Zidane headbutted Materazzi. First, let me explain the situation before this accident. I saw this scene many times by You Tube. After play was restarted, once Materazzi hold Zidane, and Zidane said something to Materazzi. When Zidane began to run, Materazzi responded to Zidane, and suddenly Zidane looked back to Materazzi. Finally Zidane made an unbelievable mistake. The cause of this accident was considered as the discrimination against Zidane and Materazzi insulted his sister. An Italian news paper revealed Materazzi statement to Zidane that I want your sister than your uniform. After, World Cup Final, Germany, Zidane admitted his statement to Materazzi that if you want my uniform so much, I will give you my uniform after the match. I think, this statement is the begging of this confrontation between Zidane and Materazzi. However, it is impossible to guess there talking after the first remark of Zidane. The only way to know the truth of confrontation between Zidane and Materazzi is to wait. Why we have to wait? Because, Materazzi is still playing as the top level player. I think, Materazzi wont talk about there confrontation in detail. The time will solves everything. After Materazzi retires, he would publish his autobiography, must write about what he was saying to Zidane. We have to wait to know the truth until Materazzi will publish his autography

Diego Maradona

I would like to tell you about Diego Maradona. Do you know him？ I think almost people know him if you like football. Reading this blog let you know about Diego Maradona even if you don't know him. Don't worry!!


He was born in the southern part of Buenos Aires on October 30, 1960 as impecunious　family's children.


He is very short but he runs very fast. He had outstanding ball keep power, sense of passing and ability of scoring.
He is excellent especially in the technology of the dribble. His shoot ability from the left leg is also high


Diego Maradona is very famous for his hand of god in World cup Mexico, semifinal. Though, He had the fame in his achievement, he also faced a lot of adversities.

I think he is great football player. However he used drug. It was said that it was the time when he was registered at FC Barcelona that he has begun to use drug.
After retirement he repeats hospitalization for body weight gain by drug dependency and the neglect of health. He was critical condition at one time from extreme corpulence and the influence of the drug , but he escaped death. The rumor that he did on April 25 , 2007 spread and Argentina government started investigation but , in fact he just hospitalized with a stomachache. In addition, he performed the excision operation of the stomach and succeeded in a diet.

The Greatest Leaders

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix、is one of the famous and superior leaders in the world. He is known as soccer director who is the highest salary in the world. He is from Portugal, and when he was young, he became a physical educator. But for the sake of becoming soccer leader, he quit his job and then he did studying abroad in Scotland. From this, his carrier started.


In the days of an interrupter and assistant coach, he got much experience, for example FC Porto, Sporting Lisbon, and FC Barcelona. These experiences are very useful after his carrier. Now he can speak five languages, and thanks to this, he has almost nothing to worry about being unable to communicate with players.


An opportunity to become famous about his name is that he revived many teams that suffered from Dullness in those days. His best achievement in his carrier is getting a title of UEFA champion's league 2003/2004years season after an interval of 17 years.


After the achievement, he was headhunted by Chelsea FC that was very rich. Here, his team won a premier league conquest from the first year. And he is loved by Chelsea fun very much!!

Lionel Andres Messi

Lionel Andres Messi is very good at dribbling. I think he is the greatest player. He was born on June 24, 1987. He is short of stature because he is a sickness of the growth hormone. But he runs very fast.


He is from Argentina. He belongs to FC Barcelona of leaguer Espanyorra.
Height is 169cm and weight is 66kg and he is lefty. The position is FW.


He participated in the FIFA world youth championship held in the Netherlands in Jun and July ,2005 as representative Argentina, and he pulled the team as ace. And his team won at the contest. At the contest he took six scores and acquires MVP and TOP scorer.

Why the national team of Japan is so weak?

I am Japanese football otaku, and I love football very much. However, when I see the match that the national team of Japan is defeated, I will become so sad.

Recently, in Beijing Olympic, Football Men,　our national team could not have a good result, they were defeated in the preliminary group. I was disappointed by this result.

Because, I am afraid of the declining of Japanese football, I would like to write about how to solve the declining of Japanese football.

First, I think, Japanese football style is out of date. Because, modern football requires the amount of movement.　For example, when foreign football team tries to get score, a lot of attackers rush into penalty area. In contrast, when Japanese football team tries to get score, a few attackers rush into penalty area. This means Japanese players don't run so much.

As you know, the ability of Japanese footballer is inferior to the level of European and South America footballer. Moreover, foreign players always run more than Japanese　players.

In this situation, how can we compete against foreign football teams????

My suggestion for Japanese football is that run more than foreign players. But don't　misunderstand, I didn't say that Japanese footballer should run all the time during the match.

Japanese footballer should run a lot at the attack and the defense and try to control the match. For example, if you think this is a chance, attracters should run al lot to rush into penalty area. Whether taking score or not is not important. If failed to take score, run a lot to prevent error. If succeeded to taking score, you should try to play safety.
After taking score, possessing ball at own court is very useful to control the match.

I think, this is the ideal team whom Ivica Osim tried to realize, and Japanese footballer must not forget the lessen of Osim.

international football contest

First, we will write about international football contest.



When you hear international football contest, you might think of World Cup. Of course, we would like to tell you the history of World Cup. You must not forget UEFA Champions League and Euro.



UEFA Champions League is the contest which determines the strongest club team in Europe. Most of veteran clubs in Europe participate in this contest.



Do you know Euro? This is not the currency in Europe but European version of World Cup. It is said that the level of Euro exceeds World cup. Because all of European nations which participate in Euro experience a severe preliminary contest,

There are no weak country in Euro. People all over Europe get exited while holding Euro.

Let me explain the history of FIFA World Cup. It is needless to say that FIFA World cup is the most famous football contest. FIFA World Cup is the contest for which the representative of nations compete.

FIFA World Cup is a largest sports festival in the world. FIFA World Cup had started 1930 at Uruguay

The country which won FIFA World Cup mostly is Brazil; Brazil won FIFA World Cup 5 times until World Cup Germany, 2006. The other countries which experienced FIFA World Cup conquest were Germany, Italy, Argentina, England and France.

Next FIFA World Cup is South Africa, 2010, in that time you will get excited.

the greatest player

We will tell you the greatest football players. Especially, The players whom we want to introduce is Shunsuke Nakamura.

As you know, Shunsuke is a Japanese fantasista, and he is famous for his free kick ability. He belongs to Celtic FC in Sottish plemier league. He flourishes in Scottish. The position is a midfielder.

He joined Yokohama Marinos in 1997. And he woked effectively gradually and he grew up to leading players of the club. He participated in the world youth in the same year. He participated in the Sydney Olympics as U-23 representative's backbone in 2003. He won the Most valuable Player prize (MVP) as a youngest Japanese playere.

First blog entry

Hello, we just made a blog. Because we are interested in football, we decided to write about different aspects of football.