Litti and Nunobe at official kickoff

Coach Pierre Littbarski and Takanori Nunobe were guests at the "2008 J.League Kickoff Conference" today which includes players, coaches and officials from all J.League and J2-Clubs.

Interview with Litti & Nunobe

Litti talks about Miyazaki-Camp, new player Joel Griffiths and the coming season.


Presentation of "2008 KyushuDerby" which includes Kyushu-Clubs Avispa Fukuoka, Sagan Tosu and promoted Roasso Kumamoto.

New name for our home

Avispas Home-stadium, Hakata no mori-Stadium, got a new name.
The independent video game developer and publisher Level5 which based in Fukuoka  is the new sponsor of the stadium.
So the new name of the stadium is "Level5-Stadium".

For me, it's still Hakata no mori ^^

Test against Sapporo

Yesterday, Avispa played a 3 x 45 minutes-match at Hakata no mori-Stadium against new J.League member Consadole Sapporo. Avispa lost 2:3 (1-0 /0-1/1-2)
The first 90 minutes, Avispa played with a mostly "youngster Team" with Jun Suzuki, Mike Havenaar, Kyohei Oyama, Shingo Honda and Tomokazu Nagira.
The 3rd half, they played with a team which could be a Starting 11 in next J2 season.

Scores:
Honda, Kurobe
(not sure about it)

GK: Kamiyama, Yoshida
DF: Yamagata, Nagano, Nagira, Miyamoto, Nakamura, Rudan, Nunobe, Nakajima
MF: Nakaharai, Kudo, Honda, Suzuki; Tanaka, Talay, Jogo, Hisanaga
FW: Havenaar, Oyama, Kurobe, Okubo

1st & 2nd half

--------Havenaar--------Oyama----------
--Suzuki--Honda--Kudo--Nakaharai---
-Miyamoto-Nagira-Nagano-Yamagata-
-------------------Kamiyama----------------

3rd half

---------Kurobe-------Okubo-------------
--Hisanaga---Jogo---Talay---Tanaka--
-Nakajima-Nunobe-Rudan-Nakamura-
--------------------Yoshida----------------

Substetutions:
-No Infos-

Test against Seongnam

On a sonny saturday, Avispa played against ACL 2007 semi-finalist Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma from South Korea, but the game ended just 0:0 after 90 minutes.
Litti put Nunobe into defence and put new-signing Ufuk Talay on Nunobes position in midfield

GK: Yoshida
DF: Nakamura, Rudan, Nunobe, Nakajima
MF: Tanaka, Kudo, Talay, Hisanaga
FW: Kurobe, Havenaar

-------Havenaar-----Kurobe---------
--Hisanaga--Talay--Kudo--Tanaka---
-Nakajima-Nunobe-Rudan-Nakamura-
-------------------Yoshida----------------

Substetutions:
45' - Nunobe > Nagira
62' - Havenaar > Okubo
62' - Kudo > Jogo
71' - Nakajima > Yamagata
75' - Rudan > Nagano
75' - Tanaka > Nakaharai
82' - Nakamura > Miyamoto
84' - Kurobe > Oyama
84' - Talay > Suzuki


New man Ufuk Talay
www.avispa.co.jp

Test against Gifu

On thursday, we played a match against new J2 member FC Gifu, who promoted with Roasso Kumamoto from JFL, at Miyazaki Trainingscamp and won 1:0

Scores:
1:0 Nunobe (40')

GK: Yoshida
DF: Nakamura, Nagano, Rudan, Nakajima
MF: Nakaharai, Nunobe, Jogo, Hisanaga
FW: Kurobe, Okubo

------------Okubo--------Kurobe--------------
---Hisanaga--Jogo--Nunobe--Nakaharai---
-Nakajima---Rudan---Nagano--Nakamura-
-----------------------Yoshida--------------------

Substetutions:
45' - Nagano > Miyamoto
45' - Nakamura > Yamagata
52' - Nunobe > Kudo
62' - Nakajima > Suzuki
62' - Rudan > Nagira
66' - Hisanaga > Tanaka
66' - Kurobe > Havenaar
81' - Okubo > Oyama
81' - Jogo > Honda
87' - Nakaharai > ?


www.avispa.co.jp

Greetings from Miyazaki

Here are some videos from the Trainingcamp in Miyazaki

Trainings-Impressions

Interviews
Interview with Litti
Interview with Nakaharai
Interview with Mike
Interview with Hokuto

australian 8

Avispa will give new signing Ufuk Talay number 8 for new Season.
So Talay will heir it from fellow australian countryman and old teammate Alvin Ceccoli, who left Avispa for A-League side Central Coast Mariners.

another Aussie!

It was just a rumour in January but now we signed with australian International Ufuk Talay from Hyundai A-League side Sydney FC.

Ufuk was a teammate of Mark Rudan who joined us in January.
Most of his career he played for turkish clubs before he went to Sydney in 2005.

Which number he get will report soon

Read also a report from January where i wrote about the rumour.

 

New Slogan

Avispa got their new slogan for 2008

The slogan is HEART IT GOES!
You can see it on the header on Avispa's official HP

(I bet i translated wrong^^;)

We are back...

Avispa arrived in Miyazaki today's morning and here are some pics from the training they held at Akanashi Track&Field Ground from 15.00 till 17.00.

Welcome again!
Yoshida, Kamiyama, Rokutan
Let's run
Mike against 2

pack your bags

On thursday, Avispa will go to Miyazaki for another trainingscamp and will play their 4 test-machtes there. ( I reported)
They will train at Akanashi Track&Field in Hawks Village, a big training area from Fukuokas Baseballclub Softbank Hawks.

The Team will stay in Miyazaki till 24th february

Avispa in Kitakyushu

Yesterday morning, Avispa played against a Kitakyushu student team in the 12th Kitakyushu Major Cup.
Avispa won 11:0 (5:0)

Scores:
1:0 Tanaka (9')            
2:0 Tanaka (16')
3:0 Kurobe (18')
4:0 Nakamura (19')
5:0 Hisanaga (40')
6:0 Kurobe (47')
7:0 Tanaka (58')
8:0 Kurobe (72')
9:0 Kurobe (74')
10:0 Kurobe (77')
11:0 Kurobe (88')

GK: Yoshida
DF: Nakamura, Miyamoto, Nagira Nakajima
MF: Tanaka, Jogo, Kudo, Hisanaga
FW: Kurobe Havenaar

-----------Havenaar-----Kurobe-----------
--Hisanaga----Kudo----Jogo----Tanaka----
Nakajima---Nagira---Miyamoto---Nakamura
----------------------Yoshida-------------------

Substetutions:
45' - Yoshida (OUT) > Kamiyama (IN)
59' - Nagira > Nagano
64' - Jogo > Suzuki
69' - Havenaar > Okubo
76' - Nakamura > Yamagata
80' - Kudo > ?
83' - Tanaka > Honda

Test-Matches in February

After the victory over Fukuoka University at the beginning of the month , Avispa will have 3 games to play in february.
On next Sunday Avispa will play against a Team from Tokyo (?).
Two days later they will play against a student team with students from all over Kyushu.
Another 2 days later, the 21st of februray, Avispa will meet J2-contender FC Gifu and the last game on 23rd of february will be against ACL 2007 semi-finalist Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma from South Korea.

17/2 - Tokyo (?)
19/2 - Kyushu Student Team
21/2 - FC Gifu
23/2 - Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Home sweet home...

After Avispa came back from Miyazaki on thursday, they played against Fukuoka University on friday morning.
Avispa won 4:1 (0:1)

Scores:  0:1, 1:1 Kurobe, 2:1 Nagira, 3:1 Okubo, 4:1 OG.

GK: Yoshida (Kamiyama)
DF: Yamagata, Rudan (Nagira), Miyamoto (Nagano), Nakajima
MF: Nakamura, Jogo (Honda), Nunobe (Tanaka), Hisanaga (Nakaharai)
FW: Okubo (Havenaar), Kurobe

1st half
-------------Okubo---------Kurobe-------------
-Hisanaga----Nunobe---Jogo----Nakamura-
--Nakjima--Miyamoto--Rudan--Yamagata--
--------------------Yoshida----------------------

2nd half  (after subs came in)
-----------Havenaar-------Kurobe--------------
-Nakaharai-----Kudo-----Honda----Tanaka-
--Nakajima---Nagano--Nagira---Nakamura-
---------------------Kamiyama--------------------



please correct me if i'm wrong, but that is all i figured out