I'm pretty sure I went to an away game in Fukuoka a few years ago but have no idea whether that was in J1 or J2 at the time. I was either too happy, disappointed or lazy to blog about it as I can find no record but I do remember having Hakata ramen and the stadium too. Anyway this was certainly in J2, none of our managers ever place any emphasis on defending set-pieces and those chickens have come home to roost...or went away to roost in J2 on this occasion.
Showing posts with label Golden Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Golden Week. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Monday, 6 May 2013
Shonan Bellmare 0 - 3 Cerezo Osaka
Again
Edno didn't start and this time didn't come off the bench either so
I'm starting to wonder whether we night be loaning him out to a J2
team this season (he himself is on loan to us from the Mexican club
Tigres but we've done similar things before). But on to more positive
things we scored 3 great team efforts with Kakitani grabbing two to
put him on 6 league goals this campaign ( 6 more than Edno...sorry!)
and Yamaguchi getting the other. Sugimoto looked really comfortable
and was on the same wavelength as his team-mates as he was involved
in all of the goals. Next up this Golden Week Urawa Reds visit Nagai
Stadium and we're all hoping their fans are on their best behaviour after Shimizu.
Amazing 3 - 3 draw at the renamed Noevir Stadium in Kobe
Kobe
play in J2 this year which means no away trip with Cerezo to their
lovely stadium and my usual pre-match trip to the Hobgoblin pub,
Chinatown and the German beer and currywurst shop. As J2 games are
held on Sunday (when an English breakfast is 999yen) I went down and
saw a marvellous comeback from Fagiano Okayama as they scored 3 in
the space of 10 minutes with the last coming in injury time to leave
Kobe still leading J2 but their fans slightly miffed (there were boos
at the final whistle). Fagiano is the Italian for pheasant in case
you were wondering about Okayama's name. Noevir is a make-up company
as the stadium has it's third sponsorship change in as many years.
This is one that builds on the great women's team INAC Kobe Lionessa
which features many of the national team players. Fans that made
the trip were given a free sample of face cream. Kobe will welcome Gamba Suita at the Noevir for their Golden Week Kansai Derby.
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| The flag waving didn't put off the penalty taker although finally the Okayama fans went home happy |
Saturday, 2 February 2013
New uniform, 2013 fixtures and a reminder of why the number 8 is so important!
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| First match of the season in Nagai Stadium |
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| New kit revealed |
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| "Adventure" (Dancing Heart) Our slogan for this season |
| Here are the first set of fixtures in J1 with the kick off times available. The rest can be found here in Japanese. There's a pleasing number of Saturday afternoon games before summer and we start the season in Nagai Stadium. Golden week fixtures this year feature an away trip to Shonan Bellmare and Nagoya Grampus at home. Strange not seeing another Kansai team here as we keep our fingers crossed that Gamba can make it to the JFL this year. The new kits are looking good. New signing Kusukami has the number 10 while Kakitani inherits the number 8 once worn by club legend Hiroaki Morishima. No number 9 yet as the club have yet to finalise the Edno Cunha signing. Pre-season we're heading to Thailand to face our partner club Bangkok Glass on the 7th this month. Click here for more information on the partnership. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thursday, 24 February 2011
Two huge games - Arema is our first ACL game and the Osaka derby is our opening game in the J-League!
The tickets sold out fast for the Osaka derby (as they always do) on the opening day of the J-League season and the game before that will be the visit of Arema FC from Indonesia next month. The away game in Indonesia is during Golden Week which should see a decent number of our supporters making the trip despite the price hikes during that period. So here is some information from, wikipedia of course, about Arema and the only recent news I could find in English about them here which looks impressive. Finally please note this is the emblem of our Asian rivals. Anyone that can help with more information and/or links would be helpful!
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| Welcome to the jungle |
Furthermore in case there are any fans coming over from Indonesia that can't read one of the three Japanese alphabets perhaps this could be useful:
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| This is where to find us |
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