3 more new contracts

Goalkeeper Ryuichi Kamiyama, defender Tatsunori Yamagata and midfielder Daisuke Nakaharai renewed their contracts today.

Now 13 players renewed their contracts
You'll find the other ones under 2008 - December

Okamoto on loan from Gamba

Today, Avispa annouced that the club and ACL Champions League Winner Gamba Osaka decited a rental contract for Gambas Hideya Okamoto.
The forward will stay at Avispa for one year. Okamoto joined Gambas A-Squad in 2006 from their youth team. He made his debut for Gamba against Koreas Chunam Dragons during the ACL Champions League group stages.

The 2nd brazilian

The club anoucced the signing of another brazilian today.
Alex Henrique Jose is 23 years old and and plays on the forward position.
Last season the played for a underclass brazilian club named Batatais FC.

Let's see if the signing of middle/under-class brazilians really help us to turn back to the better teams in the league. I really doubt that for the moment...

The boy from the Uni

Kazuki Yamaguchi, the new signing from Fukuoka University, was presented to the press today, together with an other player who will join FC Gifu.
The press-conference was held inside Fukuoka University.
Yamaguchi was born on july 10th (like Hokuto) 1986 in Fukuoka. He plays on the defender position.

Can't belive it! A brazilian!

After a year without a brazilian player, the club annouced today that we will sign a brazilian for 2009!
Welington ( Full Name: Wellington Katzor de Oliveira) will join us from America MG, a third class club from Brazil. I didn't find much him, just that he is 27, a midfielder and already played for the well-known Santos and Internacional. In 2007 he went on a short trip to Israel to play 3 games for Hapoel Tel Aviv.Let's see if he will be a big help.
Good Luck Wellington!

Sayonara and Dag!

Mike Havenaar will return to the Marinos after a successfull year at Fukuoka.
Littbarski didn't give him a real chance, but under Shinoda, Mike played good and became a starter. Mike finished second on club-intern topscorers together with Yusuke Tanaka. Both scored 7 goals. Mike played 26 games, scored 7 goals and was 1492 minutes on the pitch.
We wish him all the best and we hope that he will get more playing time at the Marinos next season.
Sayonara and Dag Mike!

The new dreamteam?

Two good news for us today!

1. Our Topscorer Tetsuya Okubo, who scored 14 goals for us last season, will stay at Avispa and signed a contract for two more years till january 31st 2011.
Okubo came to Avispa with a loan-contract from Kashiwa Reysol in 2008.
Okubo: "My goal is to promote with Avispa next year to fight Reysol."

2. J2s 2nd placed Topscorer Yutaka Takahashi from Roasso Kumamoto will join our team for season 2009. Takahashi finished second at the topscorerlist behind Hisato Sato with 19 goals.
He was Roassos goalmachine since 2006. He scored 63 goals in 110 goals for the wild horses.

Now we have two excellent forwards who scored regulally back in 2008.
Let's hope they find a good chemestry between them as soon as possible, but who don't want to play along a clown?

Some goals from Takahashi 2008

Why Hokuto? Why?

Hokuto Nakamura will leave us for J1 side FC Tokyo...
There was rumours the last weeks, that Tokyo wanted to sign our young superstar to help Sota Hirayama to score more goals again.
And now it's reality...
The two clubs reported on their websites that the deal is perfect.
But it was just a matter of time anyway, because all japanese football fans know that Hokuto got the potencial to play in the J.League.

Hokuto joined us in 2004 from Kunimi High School in Nagasaki, where he was a classmate of Hirayama. After good performances, he moved up to the japanese U-20 in 2004 (He already played for the U-18 and U-19 earlier). He was a part of the youth-nationalteam at the AFC Youth Championship in 2004 and at the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2005 in the Netherlands.

At november 22nd back in 2006, Hokuto sufferd a bad knee injury at the youth-international game against South Korea. He nearly missed the whole season in 2007 and could only play 3 games.
1 1/2 later, in April 2008, Hokuto was called up again and played at the Toulon Tournament, but it was already to late to make it into the squad for Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Hokuto made 105 games for us and scored 11 goals.

We wish him all the best at the capital and we will follow his games at FC Tokyo
Sonayara Hokuto...

Miyahara joins Avispa

Avispa annouced the signing of Ehime FCs Yuji Miyahara.
Miyahara played 19 games and scored one goal for the orange guys from Shikoku.
He already played for us from 2002 till 2004 and made 48 games that time.
He also played for Nagoya Grampus , Cerezo Osaka and Sagan Tosu.

New year!

The new year is coming...ok, it's already there in Japan, but it doesn't matter....
With the new year and the nearly 1st anniversary of SUPER Avispa!, I decited to give this Blog a new header for a test.

You readers can vote!
Do you like the new header or should i stay with the old one?
It's your vote!

A happy and successfull new year 2009!
SUPER Avispa!