20.10.2011 - Junto a Jordania, Australia e Irán, Japón viene pisando fuerte en la (tercera
fase de la) Eliminatoria mundialista (2014) de Asia (que disputan los 20 equipos clasificados para
4.5 plazas).
La goleada (8-0) sobre Tayiskistán lo consolida (al tope del grupo C) reafirmando el notable
crecimiento del fútbol japonés en los últimos tiempos.
By Chris Wright
With the brow-furrowing news that Kevin Nolan is currently undergoing a medical ahead of a move
to West Ham this afternoon, Newcastle cohort Joey Barton along with the majority of the watching
world has reacted with a big fat hairy 'eh?', hinting at to the Twittersphere that there may well
be a mini-exodus on the cards at St James' Park this summer.
With her group of five of them being first in the queue (pictured above), Japanese expatriate who
gave her name as "A I" told this blogger they were here since 5.30am outside the ticketing booth of
the Jalan Besar Stadium.
"Because we want to show our support to our fellow countrymen devastated by the recent earthquake
back home in Japan.
(Media Information from the Football Association of Singapore)
(Pictured above left-right) Singapore Red Cross Director of Operations Mr Lim Theam Poh,
Co-Chairman of S.League Cares Fundraising Committee Mr Zulkifli Baharuddin, FAS President Zainudin
Nordin, Hidetoshi Nakata, Co-Chairman of S.
SINGAPORE, 27 March 2011: Great Eastern-YEO's S.League, Albirex Niigata Singapore and
Hidetoshi Nakata's TAKE ACTION Foundation have today launched S.LEAGUE CARES, TAKE ACTION WITH
ALBIREX NIIGATA SINGAPORE, a series of fund-raising events for the Japanese earthquake and
tsunami relief efforts.
Japanese footballers in Serie A: A potted history (Part I) is a post from: Just Football
Yuto Nagatomo's transfer to European champions Internazionale caused quite the stir in
Japan. Making his debut for Just Football, Adam Cobley assesses the history of
Japanese footballers in Italy.
Super hotties Hidetoshi Nakata, Bulgaria's Stefan Dimitrov (hello; we've not met yet), and Carlos
Bocanegra (Saint-Éteinne) attended the Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2011 menswear show in Paris
earlier this week. Oh, Boca. It's been too long. Look at you there with your multi-coloured LV
scarf and your dimples.
By Dominic Vieira, writing from Lancaster
Asia is evolving into the fastest developing football continent as they're exporting dozens of
young stars into Europe's most challenging leagues, hosting their second World Cup tournament in
2022 and China and India, the world's most populous countries have recently started investing
heavily in the world's most watched sport.
In his introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Naked and the Dead,
Norman Mailer engages in an uncharacteristically tender retrospective of the manner in which he
originally wrote the book. Looking back at his twenty-four year-old self through the uncompromising
mists of time, Mailer highlights the frailties that were present in his early writing and discusses
both the strengths and weaknesses of what was his first major work.
