Defender Makoto Tanaka suffered bad injuries, when he and goalkepper Motohiro Yoshida crashed with their heads in yesterdays home game against Shonan Bellmare (0:1)
Tanaka suffered a maxilla fracture, fractures of his left and right cheekbones and a laceration on his upper lip. Already it's not clear when he will go under surgery, but the club will announce it as soon as possible. It's only clear, that Makoto will out for some months.
Yesterday, the club decided that prospect and youth-international forward Masato Yoshihara is allowed to join Avispa's pro-team! The 17-year old homegrown player played in all youth-teams of Avispa. U-12, U-15 and U-18. He's a player with a big future and he and youth-international Kensuke Nagai could be an awsome duo up front for in the next years for Avispa Fukuoka.
Sad news today... Toru Miyamoto left the club to join J2 last-place Tochigi SC, both teams announced today. The contract is got a limit of one year, so maybe he will come back after that year in Tochigi.
Toru started his career at Fukuoka in 2001 and played 177 games and scored 5 goals in 9 seasons. 21 J1-games and 156 at J2.
SUPER Avispa! wish him all the best at his new team and follow him at Tochigi. We'll miss you, dude.
His supergoal from 2008 at Kyushu-Derby against Sagan Tosu
That was an effective game... Just 4 shots on the goal in 90 minutes, but 3 goals... Shinoda used the 4-5-1 again and switched some positions, because players like Jogo, Jun and Abe wasn't able to play. Kiyo Kudo played left-, Yusuke played right winger. Wellington started after a long time as the re-replacement for the injured Jogo and the red-carded Shu Abe. He played the full 90 minutes.
Yusuke made himself the player of the game with two nice goals and got 6 goals now. Yutaka Takahashi, who came in for Kurobe, who started up front again, showed his great assistant-work with a nice pass to Yusuke's 3:1. Jumbo scored his 10th goal of the season and still leading the team-goal counter list.
Hokuto and FC Tokyo lost their Away-game against Champion Kashima Antlers 3:1.
Hokuto started for the injured superstar Naohiro Ishikawa on the right side. You could see that he needs more playing time to show what he can. Hokuto seemed a bit helpless and wasn't in a really good shape, but it was his real first game after a long injury-break, so it's ok for now, he just need more time.
He was subed out for Tatsuya Suzuki in the 60th minute.
Hokuto is back in buisness! Hokuto celebraited his comeback last sunday at Tokyo's 0-0 against Yokohama F. Marinos. He played the last 10 minutes of the game and was subed in for Jo Kanazawa.
Yesterday at Yamagata, Hokuto wasn't in the squad.
Sorry that you must wait so long for the news, but i was pretty busy with work. I will post the Sapporo-, Cerezo- and the Toyama-game later
Hokuto is back in training! Yesterday, Hokuto made his comeback and practiced again. He injured his left ankle at 3.6. against Montedio Yamagata at Nabisco Cup group stages. Tokyo-Coach Hiroshi Jofuku said, he's looking forward, that Hokuto can practice with the team at the beginning of the next week. Hokuto could make his comeback against the team he scored his only goal this season, Yokohama F. Marinos.
We missed the chance to close the gab between teams like Kusatsu and Gifu, who lost their games today, but I'm happy with the point when you look at the squad and how many players missed the game. Suzuki is on his world tour, Takahashi earned the 4th yellow last game, Nagira, Yusuke and Nakajima are out, Abe made his debut today so he need a bit of time... Let's concentrate on the Sapporo-game where we will have a good chance to win i think, because Sapporo isn't so good at all at the moment.
After the Suwon Cup in South Korea, Jun will travel to another youth tournament with the U-20 in Spain. The U-20 will play in the group stages of this tournament against Levante, a state-team of Brasilia in Brazil and Villareal. All games will be held at Estadio Municipal ELS ARCS and the tournament will run from 14.8. to 21.8.
Jun: "With the Suwon Cup, the trip to Spain will be hard, but i got the chance to build up my stamina, so it will be good"
With Jun's World Tour, he will miss Avispa for 5 games... Today against Okayama, the 2 tough games against Sapporo and Cerezo, against Toyama and Tochigi. Today, Jun will replaced by Avispa's new face Shu Abe.
Avispa's Part time professional Kensuke Nagai will be also a part of the U-20 team, when they move to Spain.
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Defender Makoto Tanaka suffered bad injuries, when he and goalkepper Motohiro Yoshida crashed with their heads in yesterdays home game against Shonan Bellmare (0:1)
