Goodbye Robert...

Germany and the whole football-world grieves about a great goalkeeper and a man with a big heart.

Germany's nationalteam goalkeeper Robert Enke (32) died yesterday evening after he got caught by a train. It was suicide...
Enke, who played for Bundesliga-side Hannover 96, where he was the captain of the team.
He was mentally unstable since years and suffer depression and fear of failure. In 2006, his daugther died at the age of two, because of an inborn heart failure. Enke left his wife and a 8 months old adopted daugther.

SUPER Avispa! sorrow about one of the best goalkeepers, but a bigger big-hearted man...

Rest in peace Robert
We will never forget you

Capital Adventure Vol.15

Hokuto scored a beatiful freekick at Tokyo's 3:2-win against J2-side Thespa Kusatsu in the 3rd round of the 89th Emperor's Cup.
The game was held in Nagasaki, where Hokuto was born and grew up. He also played in Nagasaki for the nationwide popular Kunimi High School. The other goals were scored by Hideki Sahara and Hokuto's best buddy Sota Hirayama.

Hokuto-interview and goal

[Training Match] Hiroshima 1-3 Avispa

Today, we traveled to Hiroshima to play a training match against J1-side Sanfrecce Hiroshima at Big Arch Stadium (14:00). We won 1:3. Last month, we lost 1:2 and in june, we lost 0:4 to the big ones from the east.

Starting 11
GK: Yoshida
DF: Wellington, Student, Yamaguchi, Kugisaki
MF: Abe, Miyahara, Alex, Oyama, Nakaharai
FW: Kurobe

2nd half
GK: Yoshida
DF: Wellington, Student, Yamaguchi, Kugisaki
MF: Abe, Miyahara, Alex, Oyama, Nakaharai
FW: Yoshihara

Goals
0:1 - 31' - Yasuomi Kugisaki
0:2 - 56' - Masato Yoshihara
0:3 - 66' - Kyohei Oyama (pen.)
1:3 - 78' - Kohei Shimizu

Subs
45' - Kurobe -> Yoshihara (U-18)
47' - Abe - > Son (U-18)
60' - Yoshida -> Kasagawa
63' - Kugisaki -> Student
67' - Oyama -> Student

[J2-R48] Avispa 2-1 Kofu

And we made it again, a win against a big horse of the league!
We had to take revange for the two big losses in the 2 games before, 2:4 and 6:0...
Not many shots on both sides but we managed to get 3 points in a nice way of scoring goals.
But at first, it looked like Kofu would win the game after scoring the 0:1 in the 17th minute by Junior Maranão.
In the 30th minute, Jun Suzuki played a beautiful pass to Jumbo Okubo on the left side. Okubo played a cross into the box where Takahashi were left all alone by the Kofu-denfenders. Takahashi scored the goal with a powerfull header!Kofu was the better team in the second half, but a good idea from Kiyo Kudo gave us the lead!
It looked like Kiyo gave him self some time to kick it, but he play it fast and Kofu's defence were not ready for that. Jumbo ran threw the defence and socred a beatiful goal with a spinning header! It was a pretty hard game with 30 freekicks on our and 23 on Kofu's side, but just one yellow card for both.

Defender Kazuki Yamaguchi, who came from Fukuoka University this year, made his pro-debut after he was subbed in for Nakajima in the 77th minute.

Thespa lost 5:0 to Cerezo Osaka, so we still got the chance to reach the Top 10. We are just 3 points behind them.

With our victory against Kofu, we helped Cerezo Osaka to get promoted to the J1!
Good look from our side to Cerezo! Well done guys!

Starting 11
GK: Rokutan
DF: Yamagata, Niwa, Nagano, Nakajima
MF: Yusuke, Suzuki, Okubo, Kudo, Okamoto
FW: Takahashi

Bench: Yoshida, Yamaguchi, Nakaharai, Miyahara, Kurobe

Goals
0:1 - 17' - Junior Maranão
1:1 - 30' - Yutaka Takahashi
2:1 - 66' - Tetsuya Okubo

Subs
77' - Nakajima -> Yamaguchi
82' - Takahashi -> Kurobe
88' - Yusuke -> Nakaharai

Caution
2' - Yamagata (1)

Takahashi's goal


Jumbo's goal

U-18's Son will join the top team

The club announced today, that U-18-player Jong Ryung Son will join the top team in 2010.

Name: Jong Ryung Son
Date of birth: 18.09.1991
Hight: 174cm
Weight: 64kg
Position: Defender
Nationality: North Korea

Before he joined Avispa's U-18, Son played for Clube Atletico Milenio in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture.

F.C. Tokyo aims at Nagai!

The homepage of Sponichi Annex reported today, that F.C. Tokyo got interests and want to sign Kensuke Nagai, who should play for us in 2010. After Hokuto 2008, it would be the second big talent, who's going to the capital city of Japan.

In all kindness to F.C.T. from our side, but Hokuto is enough so please get your handes out of him!

Tokyo is a big blue & red-Party!

A special version of Capital Adventure!
F.C. Tokyo and Hokuto won the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup-Final against Kawasaki Frontale 2:0! It's the second big title after they winning the tournament back in 2004 against Urawa Reds, but it's the first title for Hokuto Nakamura!!!
It was a suprising, but also a deserved win for the Blue-Red guys. They had to play the game without their superstar Naohiro Ishikawa, who is out for a few weeks with a knee-injury and a 100%-fit Yuto Nagatomo, who's still suffer a shoulder-injury, but they managed to make their dream come true. Talent Takuji Yonemoto, who was awarded with the New Hero Award, scored the opener in the 22nd minute. Hokuto's big buddy Sota Hirayama scored the final 2:0 in the 59th minute. The only not so happy-thing is, that Hokuto didn't get the chance to play in the final, so he had to watch the full 90 minutes from the bench.
Anyway, F.C.Tokyo won the game and Hokuto his first title and that's the greatest news of the day!!!

Big, big congrats to F.C. Tokyo from SUPER Avispa! Blog

Kashima-Avispa - Video

Here is the Video of all Kashima-goals against us...

Capital Adventure Vol.14

Hokuto played in J.League's Satellite League on wednesday to get some more playing time. He scored at Tokyo's 3:1-victory against Shonan Bellmare. Let's hope Hokuto will be in the squad for the Nabisco Cup-Final against Kawasaki Frontale on tuesday at Kokuritsu.

89th Emperor's Cup - Fukuoka is out of race

We lost to J.League champion Kashima Antlers in the 3rd round of the 89th Emperor's Cup with 3:0. We lost the game in the first half, when Kashima scored all their goals in the first 45 minutes.
The hurdle was a bit to high for us, so we won't have the chance to take revange to Vissel Kobe for the lose in the playoffs back in season 2006.
We lost against the current and maybe the new champion, so the team shouldn't be to dissapointed.
Kurobe and Suzuki said after the game that it wasn't easy to play the second half with a 0:3-behind, so they can't play their game they wanted to play.
Now they want to concentrate on the last 4 games in the J2 and want to reach the last goal this season: to finish on 10th place.

The Fukuoka University wasn't luckier than the big guys from the city.
The Daigaku-guys lost to Gamba Osaka at Banpaku with 6:1. The good news is, that Kensuke Nagai scored the only goal for his team and showed his skills against a much bigger team again.