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Kashiwa, Gamba for final of Emperor’s Cup
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Gamba Osaka and Kashiwa Reysol will meet in the finals of the Emperor’s Cup as both sides won thrilling semi-final matches.
Reysol came from behind to defeated FC Tokyo 2-1 as Tadanari Lee scored the winning strike at the eighty-eight minute. After a thrilling J-League season that saw the Gas Men climb to sixth-place, Tatsuya [...]
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With Gamba Osaka’s 2-1 quarter-final victory over Nagoya Grampus the semi-finals of The Emperor’s Cup is set. On Monday evening (local) Kashiwa Reysol will play FC Tokyo in Shizuoka while Gamba face Yokohama F. Marinos in Tokyo in the other semi’s. Of the remaining clubs, none has won the Cup although Yokohama’s predecessor clubs, pre-merger [...]
Category: J League NewsJ-League awards
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The Kashima Antlers put their stamp on the J-League awards as their striker Marquinhos (Marcos Gomes De Araujo) won the MVP award and Golden Boot for top scorer and their manager Oswaldo Oliveira being presented the top manager award for the second successive year. Yoshizumi Ogawa of Nagoya Grampus was awarded top rookie of [...]
Category: J League NewsCho Jae-jin joins Gamba Osaka
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Former Shimuzu S-Pulse striker Cho Jae-jin has joined champions Gamba Osaka after a season with K-League powerhouse Jeonbuk Motors. During his three-year tenure at S-Pa the twenty-seven year-old Korea Republic international scored 51 goals in 113 matches.
Category: J League Newsno “Miracle in Miami” for Gamba Osaka
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With thoughts of Japan’s 1-0 victory over Brazil in 1996 Olympics, dubbed the “Miracle of Miami” in the backdrop of today’s Club World Cup final between Gamba Osaka and Manchester United, hope were strong for the J-League side pulling off an upset. However those hopes died as Gamba lost 5-3 in a shocking goal-fest. Former [...]
Category: J League NewsGamba Osaka advances in Club World Cup
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In a rematch of the AFC Champions League battle, Gamba Osaka defeated Adelaide United 1-0 with the lone goal coming from Blue Samurai Yasuhito Endo. As the match began the A-League side was clearly the aggressor but in a show-stopper example of fluid team play, Yasuhito passed the ball onto Takahiro Futugawa who linked [...]
Category: J League Newsdon’t look ahead warns Gamba Osaka coach Akira Nishino
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Although Adelaide United’s 2-1 defeat of Waitakere United was far from impressive Gamba Osaka coach Akira Nishino is urging his side not to look beyond their quarter-final match-up against the A-League side in the Club World Cup and Manchester United.
It was has shaped up as a replay of AFC Champions League final, Mr. Nishiro [...]
Category: J League NewsJ-League final week summary
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Kashima Antlers defeated relegation condemned Consadole Sapporo 1-0 giving the Antlers their second consecutive J-League title. The lone goal came from Takuya Nozawa nine minutes before the break as he thundered home a strike from outside the area.
Kashima Antlers coach Oswaldo Oliveira commented of winning the title:
“It’s not easy to win the title for [...]
Category: J League NewsNissan puts hold on Shunsuke Nakamura move
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The much ballyhooed move of Blue Samurai Shunsuke Nakamura from Celtic to J-League’s Yokohama has been squashed as the F Marinos parent company, Nissan, is cutting costs during the worldwide financial meltdown.
The thirty year-old veteran has expressed an intense desire to return to Japan with Yokohama, where his professional career commenced in 1997. Although his [...]
Category: J League NewsJ-League week 33 summary
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Moving into the final weekend of the J-League the Kashima Antlers looked poised to be crowned champion as the defeated Jubilo Iwata 1-0 and now have a two point advantage over Nagoya Grampus. It wasn’t easy for Oswaldo de Oliveira’s side as the lone goal came past the fourth minute of added-time as Chikashi Masuda [...]
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