Sonntag, 11. Januar 2009

Makoto Tanaka will join us

The Yomiuri reported that ex-international defender Makoto Tanaka from Jubilo Iwata will join our Team for season 2009.
The move is not official yet, but the newspaper wrote that both teams will annouce the transfer in the next few days.

Tanaka started his career at Jubilo in 1994 and was a member of J.League Best 11 in 1998 and 2002, the sad thing about that is that in this two world cup years, Tanaka wasn't call up for the national team-squad. In 2006, Tanaka was close to play his first world cup-match, but he injured in the training and had to go home. Teruyuki Moniwa replaced him.

In 14 years for Jubilo, Tanaka made 353 Appearances and is one of the players with the most experience in the J.League.
2008, he was always a starter in 26 games for Jubilo.
He wasn't a eye catching-player who performed brilliant, but he was always a solid one.

He made 32 games for Japan and won the Asian Cup in 2004 and was a member of the Confed Cup Team 2005 in Germany.

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