FIFA Womens Globe Cup 2011: Japans Probable Eleven For The Final Against USA Japan and

USA are set to meet in the final of the FIFA globe Cup 2011, on Sunday, July 17. Both teams came through their semi-final matches against Sweden and France respectively, using the identical score-line of 3-1. In this article, I'm going to analyse who're the very best eleven players Japan ought to use within the final against USA. The following 21 players comprise the Japanese team in the globe cup: Nozomi Yamago, Yukari Kinga, Azusa Iwashimizu, Saki Kumagai, Kyoko Yano, Mizuho Sakaguchi, Kozue Ando, Aya Miyama, Nahomi Kawasumi, Homare Sawa, Shinobu Ohno, Miho Fukumoto, Rumi Utsugi, Megumi Kamionobe, Aya Sameshima, Asuna Tanaka, Yuki Nagasato, Karina Maruyama, Megumi Takase, Mana Iwabuchi, Ayumi Kaihori. The team has three goalkeepers in Yamago, Fukumato and Kaihori, seven defenders in Kinga, Iwashimizu, Kumagai, Yano, Kamionobe, Sameshima and Tanaka, 5 midfielders in Sakaguchi, Miyama, Kawasumi, Sawa and Utsugi, and six forwards, in Ando, Ohno, Nagasato, Maruyama, Takase and Iwabuchi. The oldest, though not the most-capped, player with the squad is goalkeeper Yamago, 36, who has but to play a match at this globe cup. The only other player above 30 is skipper Sawa, who at 32 is also the teams most skilled player, with 170 caps. The more impressive and in fact really astounding statistic is that Sawa has scored 78 objectives in those 170 appearances. Next to Sawa, the most experienced international within the Japan squad is striker Nagasato, who at the fairly young age of 24 has already played in 67 matches for her nation. This is actually a young team, with all other players under the age of 30. the bulk of the players play club football for Japanese clubs, primarily INAC Kobe Leonessa. Only 4 play for clubs outside Japan. Ando and Nagasato play for German clubs FCR 2001 Duisburg and 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam, whilst Sameshima plays for USAs club team Boston Breakers, and Utsugi represents Montpellier HSC of France. Beginning using the match against New Zealand, through to the quarter-finals against Germany, Japan played with the exact same eleven players, as follows: Kaihori, Kinga, Iwashimizu, Kumagai, Sameshima, Sakguchi, Miyama, Sawa, Ando, Ohno and Nagasato.In other words, the Japanese coach went with a goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders and 3 forwards. But against Sweden, in a change of tactics, coach Nori Sasaki dropped his most skilled striker Nagasato and her location was taken by Kawasumi. The move paid rich dividends as midfielder Kawasumi utilized as a striker on the night scored a brace of objectives that went a long way in Japans brilliant victory over Sweden, thereby giving them a place in the final. There is a saying in English, which goes, If it aint, broke, dont fix it. Going by that principle, within the final, I would prefer to play exactly the same Japan squad that acquitted themselves so nicely against Sweden. Which means, no

Nagasato within the final. With due respect to Nagasato who has been outstanding for Japan, within the past, with 32 goals, in 67 matches, I would prefer the woman in form, Kawasumi, with Nagasato on the bench, ready for action any time coach Sasaki wants her. By on animation