Week 7 SOCCER

   I introduse Soccer of Germany. This is my favorite topic. These days Japanese soccer player go to Europe to be strong player. Shinzi Kagawa is one of them. He is now "Manchester United Football Club" of Premier League in England, but he was "BV Borussia 09 Dortmund" of Bundesliga in Germany. He became an indispensable main player for team of Japan.
   This week I will write about Bundesliga and some of player from Japan.
  

Meisterschale

  
   Bundesliga is a pro soccer league of Germany. First and second liague have 18 team, third league has 20 team. In the number of spectator, it is the number one of pro soccer league in the world.
Unless it fulfills the conditions of the Bundesliga license acquisition of the German soccer league said to be the severest in Europe for belonging to Bundesliga, it cannot participate in a league as a pro club. Therefore, club is not allowed to carry out a large sum debt. Since  paying one player the extraordinary annual salary　does not accept for healthy management, acquisition of the global star athlete who needs a large amount of fund is difficult for a club. A healthy management of league and club is the models of various countries.
When Japan Football Association also founds J league, it is famous for acting as a copy of Bundesliga of Germany. In UEFA league ranking in 2012, Bundesleaga has ranked 3rd which is next to Premier League and Liga Espanola, and has given the big point difference to Serie A of the 4th place.

Makoto Hasebe-

   He is captain of National Team of Japan. He went to VfL Wolfsburg of German Bundesliga on January 1, 2008, and participated in the game as regular immediately.
   GK's Marvin hits leave by a red card on September 17, 2012.  Since the team had already used up the number of substitutes, Hasebe will act as GK. Though it was a position which is not becoming tame, issuing exact long feeding, or jumping out and catching cross ball etc... As a result, the team was defeated in 1-3.
In addition, this was the first time that Japanese people act as GK in the Europe 5 Major Leagues.


Atsuto Uchida-
He did the full transfer on a three-year contract to "FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e.V." of Bundesliga with the transfer money of estimated 150 million yen on July 1, 2010. He played a match against Intel to which a Yuto Nagatomo belongs in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal in 2010. And it is the first Japanese confrontation in CL.  Schalke 04 won both games in 2-5 and 2-1 to the king in the last year.  Uchida was elected as the best eleven of the 1st game of CL quarterfinal in "EURO SPORT".  Although beaten by the Manchester United game of the semifinal,  the CL best 4 was the first also as a club in history and a Japanese.
 He is famous for cool. so he is  popular by woman with looks and ability of soccer.


   This week, I introduce two player. There are more player. If  you were interesting in soccer, plaese investigate web. you find soccer attractive.

 I will introduce culture nextweek.
 Thank you for reading!!