Just days after the shock appointment to fledgling club Valiente Fukushima of George Weah as General Manager come developments at another club in the same prefecture with their eyes set on the J-League. FC Perada Fukushima failed to gain promotion from Division 2 (South) of the Tohoku League last season - pipped at the post by the third local candidates, Viancone Fukushima - but have relaunched under the name Fukushima United. As well as the change of moniker, United have signed 22-year-old midfielder Takeshi Kuwahara from Consadole Sapporo; defender Masaaki Watanabe, 24, from Grulla Morioka; and 25-year-old midfield man Kim Kisu from Mito Hollyhock.
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... Gainare Tottori defenders Toshinori Ando and Kazuya Tamura have left the club for Yokogawa Musashino and Mio Biwako Kusatsu respectively... another defender, Yohei Taniike, has moved from Tochigi SC to Sony Sendai... meanwhile Yokogawa have also signed three students: defender Takanori Kanamori from Waseda University, midfielder Masaki Kato from Komazawa University and midfielder Shunsuke Hayashi from Tokyo Gakugei University... Sagawa Shiga's star midfield man Kento Hori has departed for Mito Hollyhock in J2...
... Sagawa Printing have signed a raft of new players including Yokogawa Musashino goalkeeper Kazuo Oishi, Alo's Hokuriku defenders Hayato Takamuki and Keizo Yoshida, JEF Reserves midfielder Kenichi Nozawa and Tochigi SC midfield man Hiromichi Katano... Hiroshi Sowa, formerly coach at YKK AP, will take charge at Kataller Toyama. Hideya Tanaka, a defender at Albirex Niigata, Kyoto Sanga reserve keeper Satoshi Hashida and Consadole Sapporo midfielder Kentaro Kawasaki will all join Sowa at the new club...
... defender Toshihiro Nishimura has left FC Kariya for Kansai League side AS Laranja Kyoto, but Kariya have signed forward Mitsutoshi Watada and defender Tsutomu Matsuda from J2-bound FC Gifu, together with Alo's keeper Takusu Ishikawa... FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu have changed their name to... Mio Biwako Kusatsu. They've also signed young midfielder Yuji Mito on loan for a year from Kyoto Sanga... Vegalta Sendai's 30-year-old keeper Kiyomitsu Kobari has moved to Tochigi SC, who have sold goalkeeper Hiroaki Hara and striker Kentaro Yoshida to Matsumoto Yamaga Club in the Hokushinetsu League...
... defender Toshihiro Nishimura has left FC Kariya for Kansai League side AS Laranja Kyoto, but Kariya have signed forward Mitsutoshi Watada and defender Tsutomu Matsuda from J2-bound FC Gifu, together with Alo's keeper Takusu Ishikawa... FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu have changed their name to... Mio Biwako Kusatsu. They've also signed young midfielder Yuji Mito on loan for a year from Kyoto Sanga... Vegalta Sendai's 30-year-old keeper Kiyomitsu Kobari has moved to Tochigi SC, who have sold goalkeeper Hiroaki Hara and striker Kentaro Yoshida to Matsumoto Yamaga Club in the Hokushinetsu League...
Hot on the heels of former Japan national team boss Philippe Troussier's appointment as General Manager of low-ranking JFL side FC Ryukyu come rumours in the Japanese press of a yet more sensational connection between the global game and Japanese non-league football. Rumours are circulating that former World Player of the Year George Weah has accepted an offer similar to that of Troussier, but from a club so far down the pyramid that they in fact barely exist.
Valiente Koriyama - not to be confused with Valiente Toyama of the Hokushinetsu League - were formed in 2007 with the long-term intention of bringing J-League football to Fukushima, north of Tokyo. The plan is that Valiente will enter formal competition this coming season in Division 3 of the Fukushima Prefectural League. This places them six tiers below J2, while seasoned observers of the amateur and semi-pro game in Japan will bear in mind that in Tohoku League sides FC Perada Fukushima and Viancone Fukushima, the local area already has two ambitious clubs at a far more advanced state of development than Valiente.
Liberian star Weah, 41, most recently turned out for UAE club Al-Jazira and towards the end of 2007 was reported as having been turned down by Slavia Prague after a trial with the Czech outfit. Troussier, meanwhile, has appointed as Ryukyu coach fellow Frenchman Jean-Paul Rabier. Rabier was a player with sides such as Laval, Valenciennes and Reims and the 70s and 80s, before going on to coach in his home country, Burkina Faso, Algeria and most recently Qatar.
Valiente Koriyama - not to be confused with Valiente Toyama of the Hokushinetsu League - were formed in 2007 with the long-term intention of bringing J-League football to Fukushima, north of Tokyo. The plan is that Valiente will enter formal competition this coming season in Division 3 of the Fukushima Prefectural League. This places them six tiers below J2, while seasoned observers of the amateur and semi-pro game in Japan will bear in mind that in Tohoku League sides FC Perada Fukushima and Viancone Fukushima, the local area already has two ambitious clubs at a far more advanced state of development than Valiente.
Liberian star Weah, 41, most recently turned out for UAE club Al-Jazira and towards the end of 2007 was reported as having been turned down by Slavia Prague after a trial with the Czech outfit. Troussier, meanwhile, has appointed as Ryukyu coach fellow Frenchman Jean-Paul Rabier. Rabier was a player with sides such as Laval, Valenciennes and Reims and the 70s and 80s, before going on to coach in his home country, Burkina Faso, Algeria and most recently Qatar.
... Sagan Tosu's 19-year-old reserve keeper Genki Ota has moved to Gainare Tottori on a season-long loan... Arte Takasaki have made a similar deal with young Omiya Ardija defender Haruki Nishimura... meanwhile Tatsuya Kamohara, a 24-year-old midfield player who spent 2007 loaned out from Sagan Tosu to FC Ryukyu, has moved from Okinawa to Kanto League side FC Machida Zelvia...
... 2007 JFL champions Sagawa Kyubin SC have announced a change of name to Sagawa Shiga FC. Title-winning coach Masafumi Nakaguchi has moved across to the role of technical director, leaving former Sagawa Kyubin Tokyo boss Nobutaka Tanaka to take charge... Gainare Tottori have signed 18-year-old defender Miguel Angel Martinez from Shonan Bellmare's Paraguayan feeder club Nikkei Bellmare... midfielder Kento Tsurumaki, who spent last season on loan from Tokyo Verdy 1969 at Fagiano Okayama, has moved for 2008 to J2 minnows Mito Hollyhock. Meanwhile star striker Kohei Kiyama has extended his loan deal from Verdy to Fagiano...
... JFL newcomers FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu have extended for another year the long-term loan of defender Noriaki Ishizawa from neighbours Vissel Kobe... Tochigi SC have signed Kyoto Sanga defender Masataka Tamura, 20, for a year's loan... defender Masahito Endo has moved from Roasso Kumamoto to Yokogawa Musashino... the first round of fixtures for the 2008 JFL campaign will be held on 16 March, details as per below. The rest of the calendar will be issued at the end of February...
Honda FC - Fagiano Okayama
JEF Reserves - FC Kariya
Kataller Toyama - New Wave Kitakyushu
Ryutsu Keizai University - Mitsubishi Mizushima
Sagawa Printing SC - TDK SC
Sagawa Shiga - FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu
Sony Sendai - Gainare Tottori
Tochigi SC - FC Ryukyu
Yokogawa Musashino - Arte Takasaki
... JFL newcomers FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu have extended for another year the long-term loan of defender Noriaki Ishizawa from neighbours Vissel Kobe... Tochigi SC have signed Kyoto Sanga defender Masataka Tamura, 20, for a year's loan... defender Masahito Endo has moved from Roasso Kumamoto to Yokogawa Musashino... the first round of fixtures for the 2008 JFL campaign will be held on 16 March, details as per below. The rest of the calendar will be issued at the end of February...
Honda FC - Fagiano Okayama
JEF Reserves - FC Kariya
Kataller Toyama - New Wave Kitakyushu
Ryutsu Keizai University - Mitsubishi Mizushima
Sagawa Printing SC - TDK SC
Sagawa Shiga - FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu
Sony Sendai - Gainare Tottori
Tochigi SC - FC Ryukyu
Yokogawa Musashino - Arte Takasaki
...in Hokushinetsu, 2007 runners-up AC Nagano Parceiro have signed veteran former Yokohama F Marinos defender Yoshiaki Maruyama from Vegalta Sendai... newly promoted to Division 1 of the Hokushinetsu League, Saurcos Fukui have signed two midfielders released by Fervorosa, Yoshitaka Uchida and Yuki Suenaga... another midfield duo, Kyohei Yamagata and Kazuyuki Otsuka, have joined V Varen Nagasaki from Avispa Fukuoka...
... 25-year-old Nagoya Grampus midfielder Shunichi Nakajima has become the latest player to join the Philippe Troussier revolution at FC Ryukyu... former Ryukyu and Honda FC boss Hideo Yoshizawa has taken up an equivalent post at ambitious Hokushinetsu League side Matsumoto Yamaga Club...
... Tochigi SC, who have recently announced that a new reserve team will participate from 2008 in the local Prefectoral League, seem nevertheless to be developing links with Yaita SC. No fewer than eight former Tochigi players have joined the Kanto League Division 2 team, with midfielder Toshiki Hotta taking the position of coach... forward Ryuki Kozawa has moved from J1 side FC Tokyo to Gainare Tottori, who have also signed ex-Yokohama FC, Shonan Bellmare and Urawa Reds midfielder Tomoyuki Yoshino... Kataller Toyama, the new club formed in Toyama prefecture by the merger of Alo's Hokuriku and YKK AP, will have a squad of 23 players - twelve from Alo's and eleven from YKK...
... Kataller Toyama, FC Ryukyu and JFL newcomers New Wave Kitakyushu have all made their first steps towards gaining associate member status of the J-League. Site visits to all three are due to take place towards the end of this month, with committee-level discussions at the J-League on 19 February... Tetusya Totsuka has sensationally quit after just a matter of months in charge of FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu... Tochigi SC midfielder Tomonari Yamada has left the club for Hokuhsinetsu League outfit Zweigen Kanazawa...
... ambitious Tokai League Division 2 side MIE Rampole have appointed ex-Kyoto Sanga boss Bunji Kimura as their new manager... in Shikoku, Kamatamare Sanuki have signed striker Yuuya Iwadate and defender Shinya Hatta from Mito Hollyhock, forward Yuuya Yoshizawa from Kashima Antlers and midfielder Ryunosuke Okamoto from neighbours Tokushima Vortis...
... midfielder Masayuki Ochiai has moved from Kawasaki Frontale to Tochigi SC, from where forward Tsuyoshi Kaneko has moved to Yokogawa Musashino. Yokogawa have also signed Sho Yanagisawa, a midfielder from Mito Hollyhock youth, and striker Daigo Tomioka from Nihon Taiiku University... Kashiwa Reysol defender Ryo Okawara has gone to FC Ryukyu... Gainare Tottori's new head coach will be Tamotsu Nakamura, who previously filled the same post at Yokohama FC...
... Tochigi SC have continued their ambitious rebuilding programme by signing midfielder Daisuke Hoshi from Kyoto Sanga, former Omiya Ardija keeper Kunihiro Shibasaki and defender Yuki Okada from Consadole Sapporo... Masahiko Kimura, a defender from FC Gifu, has joined JFL new boys Fagiano Okayama...
... veteran former Yokohama FC defender Norio Omura has joined Gainare Tottori... JFL newcomers FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu have let go seven members of the squad that gained promotion from the Kansai League... midfielder Shinya Sato has left FC Ryukyu, but the Okinawans have signed four new players including Kanagawa University midfielder Kosuke Bayashida and Tokai University goalkeeper Naoya Arasaki...
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