Po10tial – Daigo Takahashi
J2 League holds a lot of treasures and we found five of them: young, talented and with a promising future.
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2019 Regista Awards: J3 League
A long-waited promotion, a return to J2, a new team in the tier and the record of attendance in the history of the championship: these are the 2019 J3 Awards.
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Fantasy Football – Fukuoka
Among Japanese Prefectures, Fukuoka may be one of the few which didn’t get mentioned enough. In football, though, they could do better.
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State of the J: Giravanz Kitakyushu
Now this is an interesting case. A club that was seemingly on the way up but now finds itself struggling a bit to get to grips with life in the…
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5 Things I think I think
1. I think that we need to understand where J.League clubs are in relation to other Asian teams in regard to the Asian Champions League and not overreact to…
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5 Things I Think I Think…..
1. I think the real Gamba Osaka should stand up (to paraphrase an Eminem track). Gamba Osaka 1-1 Venforet Kofu Gamba Osaka 1-4 Jeju United Kashiwa Reysol 1-3 Gamba Osaka…
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Regional preview: Kyushu (North)
Shame on me, I forgot that there were a lot of teams on the island of Kyushu. Their preview is split into north & south. We start our previews in…
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Farewell 2016
2016 is, as they say, in the books (almost – if you exclude the Emperor’s Cup). A year of surprises, and non-surprises. A year of ups & downs….
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Fukuoka Pride
We all know about the “derby” situation in Japan. You have the “real” ones that are borne out of proximity and have grown organically over time. Examples of these would…
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Talking point: Kyushu calling
Lots of talking points from the first round of J1 & J2 games. We could talk about what is surely a statistical anomaly of only one home win in J1….
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