Mitsuru Chiyotanda

At Avispa: 2003-2006

Backnumber: 5

Position: Central back

Games: 139
Goals: 14

Now: Nagoya Grampus

The Fukuoka-born was the big man in our defence for 3 years and a major part for Avispa's success during that time. A physical strong guy, who's was the big man in Niigata's defence where he moved, when we relegated after the 2006 season. We don't blame him for the move, because he proved that he's a J1-class defender and show it for 3 years. 2010, he moved to Nagoya Grampus and didn't already make the breaktrough.

Chiyo's beauty header 2009

A big "Thank you" from Makoto

On monday, fans had the chance to meet Makoto Tanaka at the Avispa headquater.
Many fans brought him presents and nice words after his bad facical injuries he suffered in the game against Shonan Bellmare.
Not just the Avispa Fukuoka-fanbase but also the great fanbase he still got at Jubilo Iwata where he played for 14 years and and even fans from Kanto and Kansai send him letters or came to Fukuoka.

Tanaka:
"Thank you for the many letters you sent me and i appreciate your kind and supporting words you wrote. The many thousand feather cranes you gave me really encourage me to come back soon to help the team."

Alex - Alex Antônio de Melo Santos

At Avispa: 2003-2007

Backnumber: 9, 3

Position: Allrounder (DF,MF,FW)

Games: 195
Goals: 41

Now: JEF United Chiba

Our most effective allrounder! No brazilian, who just stayed for one season, Alex really helped the team. From 2003 to 2006, he played in the defence. 2007 Littbarski used him as a striker and Alex exploded with 26 goals in 45 games.
After the dissapointing season, he moved to the Chiba area and played for Kashiwa in 2008 and now playing for JEF.

All 26 goals from Alex in 07

Hokuto Nakamura

At Avispa: 2004-2008

Backnumber: 29, 22, 14

Position: Winger (DF, MF)

Games: 109
Goals: 11

Now: F.C. Tokyo

The most talented player Avispa ever got! A superstar at all supporters, not just at girls. great speed- and technical skills. A big pressure lay on his shoulders all the years, but he handeled it with brave. All were shocked when he get injured in 2007 and was out for most of the season. In 2008, he showed his great talent again and made the deserve move to J1-side F.C. Tokyo and his old Kunimi-mates Sota Hirayama and Yuhei Tokunaga.

Hokuto's 1st goal for Tokyo

Hokuto's Song

Takanori Nunobe

At Avispa: 2006-2008

Backnumber: 6

Position: Allrounder (DF,MF,FW)

Games: 105

Goals: 11

Now: Coach (Kashiwa Reysol)

Our beloved mate!
Nunobe made himself in shortest time to one of the supporters Favourite. A very grounded player with a big heart. His great allrounder-skills, his view to read a game and his awsome captain-skills to keep a team together and the fighting spirit high made him to the daddy of the team and a Fukuoka-Legend!

Nuno's goals at 07 and 08

Nuno sing his own song

Avispa-Toyama - Video

Sorry, that i didn't post game reports of the last games, but i was pretty busy the last weeks...
here are the results of the games:

40 - Consadole Sapporo 1-0 Avispa Fukuoka
41 - Avispa Fukuoka 0-0 Tokushima Vortis
42 - Ehime FC 0-1 Avispa Fukuoka
43 - Cerezo Osaka 0-0 Avispa Fukuoka
44 - Avispa Fukuoka 1-1 Kataller Toyama

The Super-Header from Jumbo against Ehime

[Training Match] Avispa 1-2 Hiroshima

Yesterday, Avispa played an trainingsmatch against J1-side Sanfrecce Hiroshima at the trainings ground and lost with 1:2. Both teams played with there reserve players. Avispa played with some stundents and U-18s including talent Masato Yoshihara. Sanfrecce also played with some youth players.

Starting 11
GK: Kasagawa
DF: Yamagata, Student, Yamaguchi, Kugisaki
MF: Alex, Student, Oyama, Student, Okamoto
FW: Takahashi

Goals
1:0 - 14' - Yutaka Takahashi
1:1 - 52' - Takuya Marutani
1:2 - 62' - Ryuichi Hirashige (pen.)

Subs
67' - Oyama -> Yoshihara
70' - Okamoto -> ?

Our bests are out!

Bad news arrived at the Avispa Headquater today. Our best players this season suffered injuries in the Emperor's Cup 2nd round match in Matsuyama against Ehime FC.
Hisashi Jogo, Yusuke Tanaka and Jumbo Okubo got injured and will miss the next games. All went to Fukuoka City Hospital today.

Jogo got the worst injury of the three. Jogo suffered a bad cruciform ligament damage and need an operation. The date of the hospitalization and the operation are open for the moment, but the club will inform the fans as soon as possible, but unfortunately the season is over for our best midfielder this year.

Yusuke sprained the angle of his right foot and will be out for ca. 2 weeks
Jumbo suffered the same injury like Yusuke and will be out for ca. 2 weeks too. Both will do rehabilitation with the medical staff.
Jumbo and Yusuke are our two best strikers with 12 and 9 goals so far.

89th Emperor's Cup - Fukuoka-News

Avispa won the 2nd round game of the 89th Emperor's Cup against Ehime FC with 4:2 after penalty-shootout. After 90 minutes, the score was 2:2.
Teruaki Kurobe and Daisuke Nakaharai scored the goals on our site.


It wasn't our best squad today, because some keyplayers like Jumbo Okubo or Kiyo Kudo missed it.
Goalkeeper Motohiro Yoshida celebraited his comeback after a J2 game-break over a month.

Next game, we have to play aginst champion Kashima Antlers who beated Arte Takasaki with 1:0.
Antlers are in not good shape, so maybe there is a little chance for us to land a huge suprise!

The Fukuoka University landed a big suprise already!
The young boys beated Mito HollyHock with 2:3 on yesterdsay's 2nd round games.
Guess who shot the FU into the next round......you're right, our beloved supertalent Kensuke Nagai. In the 3rd round, FU must play against Gamba Osaka away at Banpaku.
They beated Mito, so now it's time for a bigger challenge!

Not easy games for the Fukuoka teams...

Tanaka left hospital

The club announed yesterday that Makoto Tanaka left the Fukuoka City Hospital on tuesday.