Three Japanese players nominated for FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year
Three Japanese soccer players, part of the squad that won the silver in the recent London Olympics, are nominated for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year. Midfielders Homare Sawa and Aya Miyama...
View ArticleSoccer coach Sasaki of Nadeshiko Japan renews contract for another World Cup
The Japan Football Association revealed on Thursday that Norio Sasaki, the coach of the Japanese women’s national soccer team, had renewed his contract and would remain leading the 2011 Women’s World...
View ArticleJapan has potential to be one of top soccer teams in world, Nadeshiko coach says
While men’s football usually gets the lion’s share of the attention and media coverage, women’s soccer is slowly but surely coming into prominence. Nadeshiko Japan, national women’s football team, is...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan’s Sawa says soccer needs more women around the globe
Japan’s Homare Sawa, the 2011 Women’s World Player of the Year, spoke in London this week while campaigning for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic bid about how more female “superstars” are needed in soccer to help...
View ArticleAmerican female soccer players call Japan home
American soccer players Rebecca Moros and Beverly Goebel-Yanez are the only Americans in Japan’s premier women’s soccer league, the Nadeshiko League, and they are loving it. Moros and Goebel-Yanez have...
View ArticleJapan owes 2 decades of football development to local efforts, grassroots...
This year, the J-League is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and it has come a long a way from two decades ago. From importing aging football heroes, Englishman Gary Lineker and Brazilian Zico for...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan defeats China to place 5th in Algarve Cup
The Nadeshiko, Japan’s women’s national football team, defeated China 1-0 to finish 5th in the Algarve Cup, a global invitational tournament for women’s national teams. The women’s world champions...
View ArticleJapan-New Zealand women’s football friendly ends in 1-1 draw
Visiting New Zealand held Japan’s women’s national team to a 1-1 draw in their football friendly match last Thursday in Saga Prefecture. Yuki Ogimi gave the Nadeshiko a lead in the first half but a...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan earns 1-1 draw with England in football friendly match
Japan’s national women’s football team earned a respectable 1-1 draw with England at a football friendly match at the Pirelli Stadium in Burton. The match was part of England’s preparations for the...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan loses to Germany 4-2 in women’s football friendly
Germany got their revenge over Japan’s Nadeshiko as they beat the women’s world champions 4-2 in a friendly match last Saturday. The World No 2 ranked team proved to be too strong for a resilient...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan beats France 2-1, moving on to Olympics final
The Japanese women’s soccer team, Nadeshiko Japan, continues their Olympic dominance with Monday’s 2-1 win against France. The team is now guaranteed either the gold or silver medal as they move on to...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan scores return flight upgrade with their medal
After the controversy of how they traveled to the London Olympics, Nadeshiko Japan will be flying home in a much better class, and they’ll be bringing a medal with them to boot. The national women’s...
View ArticleWhy I’m really cheering for Nadeshiko Japan to win Olympic gold
I’m not just rooting for the Japanese national women’s soccer team to win the Olympic gold medal on Thursday because it would make up for the discrimination they faced in their seating arrangements on...
View ArticleMutual Admiration: US Soccer team and Nadeshiko are all about respect
It’s a mutual admiration society when it comes to Nadeshiko and the US soccer teams. The impending Olympics finals will have both teams winning respect for each other, if not the gold! US players like...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan coach Sasaki to step down after London Olympics
Norio Sasaki, the coach of the Japanese women’s national soccer team, has stated that he plans to retire once the London Olympics are over. The 54 year old says he has been incredibly fortunate to lead...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan defeated 2-1 by U.S. in Olympic gold medal soccer match
It was the rematch of the year as Nadeshiko Japan and the United States faced off in the London Olympics women’s soccer championship, just as they did last year at the World Cup. But unfortunately for...
View ArticleJapan’s Olympic soccer loss brings out the Twitter racism
I talked about one of the reasons why I was cheering for Nadeshiko Japan to win the women’s soccer gold medal, but I didn’t really talk about what I was afraid of if they lost. Well, this is it; just...
View ArticleWhere is the love? Right here in Japan
After reading those awful tweets by Americans about the women’s soccer gold medal, I felt a strong urge to praise a Japanese woman. It doesn’t negate those mean-spirited sentiments, but it will make me...
View ArticleChildren from Tohoku get a taste of London Olympics
Twenty children from the tsunami-hit region of Tohoku had the most interesting ten days of their lives. The Japanese Olympic Committee had invited them to be a part of the London Olympics as both...
View ArticleNadeshiko Japan’s Coach Sasaki to hold off on retirement?
The coach of the Japanese national women’s soccer team, Norio Sasaki, made it clear that after the London Olympics finished in August, he was retiring. After guiding Nadeshiko Japan to first place in...
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