Hoshino Japan

I was watching baseball yesterday and I was very happy that Japanese national baseball team won. This is because they have now qualified for the next olympics. It was very hard fought 3 games and they showed fantastic fighting spirit.

the first game was against filipin and they won the match comfortably winning the match 10-0. This was a fantastic start as in the first match of qualifier, nerve will allways kick in, and some player can't play upto their usual standard but they showed fantasic motiavation and won the match.

Next game was against South Korea. The forever rival of Japan and this is going to be toughest match of all and if they lose they will get knocked out of the qualifier. As people imagined this was a toughest match. Korea always have high motivation against Japan, I don't know why, but it seems they dont like Japan. Afte hard fought game, they won the match 4-3, thanks to fantastic spirits from players to not give up after they went behind in early stages.

Last game was against Taiwan. this was not easy game either as Taiwan is getting stronger each year and gap between Japan and other Asian nation is getting smaller and smaller. This was also hard fought win as in this match, Japan could not add their runs and they went behind in 6th inning. However, they got runs soon after as in 7th inning they added to 6 runs to win comfortably 10-2 the final score.

It was good day for Japan as they qualified for the olympics and I hope they do well in the olympics.

Joe Cole

http://youtube.com/watch?v=src2H7pg0CY

Joe Cole!! May be He is not the most known player in the world yet he has talent to become world class. His touches are so precise and wonderful that nobody can't imagine what he is going to do next. He is very small for football player. he is about 170cm tall and you can't say he is big for football player yet his skills so outstading that it does not matter if he is small.

When he came to football world he was very skinny and small that he could cope with physical side of English football even though he had great football skills. However, as he got older he has got stronger and stronger and started to cope with physical side of it and started to show his real potential that he can play with world class player and he can be good as the world class player.

He plays for club called Chelsea in England and he is regular at the club. Chelsea is now one of the biggest club in the world due to Russian Owner Roman Abramovic and they have many world class player yet he is regular. This shows that he has grown and could become world class one day.

Johan Cruyff

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yr1VWSntqRg

He made a revoluiton into football seen. He was just genius. He had all skill in the world and one of the skill was named after him be cause he was the first one to do the skill. I t is very unusual in the football that the skill is named after a player. In fact this is the the only that has happened in the football history. this skill is called "Cruyff turn", which is known worldwide.

He showed new style into football and in his era they were invinsible with this attacking style. This was called "total football". this style of play was never beofore tried becausenobody thought of it I suppose. This style is where every player attacks and every player deffend kind of style so it uses a lot of energy. However, it was very effective as there are many people attacking and there are many people deffending. This was done because of Cruyff. He can play anywhere on the field and he showed that this style works and this style is very strong. He was just genius.

He was also a great manager. He had very successful career as a manager as well as player. he lead his team to win many trophies and he was respected by many people. He had very strong character adn that why he was very successful.

Platini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfAxRE7PJ14

Platini the French football genius before Zinedine Zidane. He was wonderful player at his time and he is one of the all time legend in the football history. What was so good about him? It was everything about him that was brilliant. Especially the Free kicks it felt like it always goes into goal.

He was Italian Immigrant when he came to France. He grew in France, from young age he was showing the sign og becoming great player. Every thought that he would become one of the best player in the history and as people thought he did become great football player. Obviously he trained really hard and he even became top score in Serie A even though he was a Midfielder. this was great achievement.

Why did he become such great player? This is because he loved football. He loved football more than anything else in the world except his family of course. But he was alwyas kicking the ball if he had time and that made him so special. If people want to get good at something they have to like the something that they do.

Dissapointment!!!

What happened to them?! That what most people thought when Urawa Reds Football club failed to retain The J-League. They were in the driving seat to win the title yet they could not retained it. Surely something must happened to the former J-League Champion. They only need to win one game in last 3 games yet they failed to win all of them. I believe they were tired from all the hard schedule they been through, and they might became over confident after becoming Asian Champion.

They did not play like Champions in last 3 games. They were team that has no spirit and their motivation was very low. They played like they did not want to win the matches. The worst thing was that they fail to score on last 3 games. They had great attacking player yet none of them failed to show the potential that they have.

Next year, I hope they come back getting stronger than before. They have to learn to win even though they are not upto best of their condition. They have to show that they can be champions again. I hope Urawa have success next year.

Urawa Reds!!

They were just brilliant. They have won the Asian Champions League for the first time in their history and it was first time that Japanese Club had won that major competition. They were so strong and they were bond together as team. Their motivation was so high that during the game many players got clamp because they run like they had never done before yet they still ran till the match finishes. This resulted in winning the competition.

Urawa has many good talent and they were capable of winning big tournament yet they only became successful in last couple of years. At one time they went down to lower division as they could not win any matches. However, they ahd best afns in the world who supported them which lead to winning the Asian Champions league, the biggest tournament in the Asia.

It was the fans that kept pushing team and which made the team what it is today. Not many people think fans do not have any influence on the team, but they are wrong. Fans have major impact on the players and it is because of the fans that team want to win the matches. Fans are everything for the team. It was all support the fans gave that build the team. Fans are big big influence to players.

England!!

I used to live in England and I am big fan of English football. I think English football is best football in the world. However, there were big dissapointment last month. They were knocked out of the European Championship in the qualifiers. It was huge dissapointment fir English society and for me as well. I could not believe the fact that they were knocked out in the qualifier.

At the moment English national team has the best talent in the world yet they lost in the qualifiers. How could that possibly happen? In defence, they have Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Gary Neville and Ashley Cole. In Midfield, they have Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole and Michael Carrick. Up front, they have Wayne Rooney and Peter Crouch. They all are world class player and play for world class clubs. It is unblievable that all these talent can't play in big occasion as European Championship.

I think they can do better. I believe the formation did not suit the way they play. They should done better. It was just terrible display by England. However, They will learn from this defeat and will get stronger I believe. They will have success near future.