Football (soccer)

The FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2016 has started from December 8 in Japan. In this competition, the winners of this year’s AFC Champions League (Jeonbuk), CAF Champions League (Mamelodi Sundowns), CONCACAF Champions League (Club America), Copa Libertadores (Atletico Nacional), OFC Champions League (Auckland City) and UEFA Champions League (Real Madrid), along with the host nation’s national champions（Kashima …

The UEFA Europa League group stage was held in various places on December 8 2016, there was a match of FC Schalke 04 vs. FC Red Bull Salzburg at the Red Bull Arena Salzburg. In this match, Atsuto Uchida of the Schalke participated in the match for the first time in 639 days. Uchida came off the bench in …

The 2016 season of J.League has ended, the Urawa Red Diamonds’s winning point was 1st place of J1 League. In addition to the Reds, the Kawasaki Frontale took the 2nd place and the Kashima Antlers took the 3rd place. So the three teams advanced to J-League the championship. At first, the semifinal was held at Todoroki Athletics Stadium in November …

On November 28, LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 with 81 passengers crashed in Colombia. In this airplane, the Chapecoense’s players of the Campeonato Brasileiro were on board. They were headed to Medellin in Colombia to participate in the final of Copa Sudamericana. The Chapecoense planned to play with Atletico Nacional on November 30, but there were six survivors of the …

The Nagoya Grampus of J2 League announced the contract with Hisato Sato on a permanent deal in November 21 2016. The Grampus finished with 16th place in the 2016 season, so they demote to the second division next year. The team began reform and dismissed the General manager and Bosko Gurovski of the manager. And the Grampus did not make a contract …

In November 17 2016, Hamburger SV of the Bundesliga announced that Gotoku Sakai became the captain of the team. Hamburger have not win in ten league outings in 2016-2017 season, so the manager Markus Gisdol nominated Sakai for new captain. Sakai has participated in all matches this season, and joined the match of Japan national team in the final round of Asian qualifiers …

In November 16, FC Barcelona of the Liga Espanola announced that Rakuten Inc. become their main global partner and their first-ever global innovation and entertainment partner. Rakuten also become Barcelona’s primary shirt sponsor from 2017 -2018 season. The contract is 4 years and the sponsorship fee amounts to 55 million euros per year. There is also the …

There was the match of Japan vs Saudi Arabia that is the final round of Asian qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup at the Saitama Stadium, in November 15.  In this match, Shinji Okazaki（Leicester City）, Shinji Kagawa（Borussia Dortmund）and keisuke Honda（A.C.Milan）were not a starting member. So Hiroshi Kiyotake（Sevilla FC）, YuYa Osako（FC Koeln）and Yuya Kubo（Yuya Kubo）played in their position. And Usual …

Latest News: In June 25, Yoshito Okubo of FC Tokyo injured his leg during the match with Jubilo Iwata and leaved the match. After examination at the hospital, he was diagnosed with damage to the ligament of the right knee and as having 6 weeks until full-force. His return will be around August. About 2 month ago, the 10th round of …