Subject: NT matches: Friendlies

I am very sorry about last Saturday. So me things (new job amongst them) have left very little time for sokker lately and we missed to have a match. Our rival-to-be finally appointed another match, and there was no time to search for another. I tried to settle a match with England or Lietuva, the two only free, but it seems they do not play NT friendlies any more :(

Al least this week we will have match, agains Serbia. We were going to play vs Sweden as it was scheduled some weeks ago, but they also betrayed us and settle another match.

Against Serbia the difference will be overhelming (in their favor), soI have suggested its coach to play with some less potential (perhaps their U21 team), but no more I can do and it will be his deccission. Anyway, we will try to do the best possible as ever.

Well, 0-9, a bad but previsable result as Serbia went out with its first team. Good play and marks of our players, who little could do, as Inhoa's injury removed much strenght from our middle and also the early red card to Koroki put things worse from the start.

Next week let's we see which our rival is, but I'll try to find someone lemore balanced :)
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i see the national match and in my opinion,if i does some advice,in the middle of the ground,there is too space and the two outside mid were always out from the game.
In the band there weren`t nobody and enemys did what their prefer :(

if you want play with 3 def,the 2 outside mid must stay more low!!
today they never can`t stop the enemy!

this is my opinion ;)

what you mean by "stay more low"?

Almost near the two central mid :)

Victory 3-0 vs Costa Rica, in a more balanced match than the average we usually have (tough it Costa Rica has quite an amount of NT points more anyway, which is good for Nipon to rise some :).

Fantastic Hiraoka, who seems to have awaken in this match, and great assists from our MIDs. Overall, a very good match of our team vs a solid rival in our level, and let's hope it be a good sign towards the WC starting.

At least, our NT coach can close her term wit a victory for Nippon ^^. Next week, we will see who is in charge for the next season ;)
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Superb match!:)

Well, great result, the first 21 minutes were fantastic! ;-)

But the strikers were placed much too defensive when you were in your own half!
Costa Ricas defenders are not going that much forward, even though they're in the offense! You could/should have seen that, because it was the same the last couple of matches ...
So when the ball was in your half, the strikers were too defensive, which gave the opponents defender the possibility to always tackle your striker frontside ...

I'd like to see that the strikers are placed on the same line as the opponents defender, I think they're much more effective then ...


Nevertheless, the result is great, I'm also very satisfied with my players! ;-)
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It has been hard, but due to time shortages I'm going to have, and to avoid the risk of loosing some week, I finally have achived to fix all the friendlies for our Nippon this season ^^

Nippon scheduled friendly matches:

Week 4 - Sénégal
Week 8 - South Africa
Week 12 - Magyarország
Week 15 - Việt Nam
Week 0 - Paraguay
Week 1 - Uruguay (confirmed U21 match)

Nippon will try negotiate some of the matches to be played by the U21 teams, mainly the ones between WC official matches, to let the veterans some rest and avoid risking them to unnecessary injuries.

I think most of the rivals-to-be are of a level quite balanced for us, so hopefully we could see some interesting matches with good chances for good results. Magyarország is the one which is far away from us, and I will try to get some arrangemet to equilibrate things (like playing our firts team vs their U21 one), but I don't know if it will be possible. I had preferred another rival not so strong, but since it was difficult to find teams and they showed interest from the beginning I think it was fair.

Let's see what happens, and if our juniors can play some interesting matches while the seniors can relax a bit :)
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great job ;)

We have a lot of injuries in the first team, including nearly half of our best midfielders, for tomorrow's match. Let's see what can be done with those who we have available, and hope the damaged ones rest and recover quickly... :s
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Well, I am happy to see at last a big victory :D

Senegal is very similar to us in number of users, and thoug perhaps a bit less experienced I didn't imagine we could get such difference in the score. ^^

I liked the match, and the good teamwork seen, with good passes (4 assists) and many more good chances. Our defnece was also very well (0 shoots from Senegal). At least, I hope this match can give us a boost in morale (the tougher matches are arriving) :)

Next week we will play vs South Africa, as scheduled. Their coach has requested me to play with the U21 team to spare the veterans for the WC, which i gree to.

So, please send me the updates your junior could have had, to select a good squad and if possible to give rest this week to all the first team players as possible ;)

Well, 1-1 in a good match in which there were some new faces in our squad. Thoug needed of some training yet, our juniors fared quite well and got a tie vs a lightly superior team, which is always good news, and perhaps with a bit more of luck in the shoots they could have achived a victory, tough South Africa failed some good opportunities too.

Next week, again in the WC, and again versus Spain. Let's hope to see our players play their best ;)

Sorry about the last bad results. Uruguay (U22 match agreed) proved thougher that expected, and Nigeria evidently had learned (and trained) a lot their players since our last match seasons ago. Unfortunately we need more users, or our potential will remain low. Maybe some day... :S

Now it's the turn of a new NT coach. Let's hope that with him/her thing could go a bit better...

Good luck to the winner (brokus, surely) :)

PD: I did't vote the one you think. Now I will do (so you will see, counting, that vote was no mine :P)

In week 0 japan would play friendly match with very joung players..

Japan u19 vs Al Maghrib u21

now it's proposition ;p so please add your young japanese players to database or on my sk@ and we'll talk about adding;p