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Red Astaire

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Great away win for the Reds on Saturday. 0-2 against Shimizu S-Pulse. They are now 3rd but only 2 points from the top. A great scoring record as well. They are +13 goals so their defence is not to shabby either.
 
About 2 months ago I went to see Urawa vs Yokohama Marinos in Saitama.

The J-League really is a beautiful league to follow.

Here's a video I took of the Urawa fans towards the end of the game.

The clip starts off with the Urawa fans chanting, 1-1 with 2 mins left ... then Yokohama grab a late winner and the Urawa fans keep singing and supporting their team like nothing happened.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY99HdSegPs
 
I'm glad you like them Roopy. I used to live in Saitama and my students used to give me spare tickets to the games. They were convinced Urawa were the Japanese equivalent of Liverpool. That clip you showed is so true of the fans. I have stood in the middle of that lot a few times and it was amazing. Being a 'Gaijin' made it even more funny. I was probably the only one in the stand at the time. A great team and a great league.
 
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I'm glad you like them Roopy. I used to live in Saitama and my students used to give me spare tickets to the games. They were convinced Urawa were the Japanese equivalent of Liverpool. That clip you showed is so true of the fans. I have stood in the middle of that lot a few times and it was amazing. Being a 'Gaijin' made it even more funny. I was probably the only one in the stand at the time. A great team and a great league.
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Nice nice.

I went over to Japan to support Brisbane in the Asian Champions League fixture against FC Tokyo - a side that I watched on my first trip to Japan a few years ago. I was very impressed with Urawa's set up. You can see why they are the benchmark for J-League clubs.

Hung outside the Saitama Stadium for 2 hours pre-match ... plenty of stalls with great food, beer ... loads of ppl just chilling, smoking ... and after the game we stuck around for another 2 hours. I was with 2 mates ... I was dead set to stand with the hardcore fans but my mates were soft and wanted to just sit down and watch ... we paid $10 for our ticket and ended up sitting on the halfway line, best seats in the house lol.

I wasn't impressed with the Urawa side though, maybe I expected to much as their previous squads were brilliant. But they've lost some big names but good to see them up the top now, they were almost relegated a season or two ago.

I didn't get to check out Saitama ... but it seems to be quite a remote place - well compared to downtown Tokyo lol.
BTW, how cool is Japan. They got it so sweet there - technology, shops, transport ... everything is in order. Only negative is minimal living space.
 
Boom! The Urawa Reds are top! I'm chuffed to fuck. They beat Yokohama FC 1-2 last week. A tricky away fixture but they now head the table by 2 points. Not many games left of the season! Go Urawa!!!! 🙂
 
Nice, great to see Urawa back in form and at the right end of the table after a few seasons of mediocrity.

I really hope Brisbane get Urawa in their Champions League group, would love nothing more than going back to Japan next year for that away fixture.
 
No mate I have never been - Been pretty much everywhere else in Asia though. My wife is an Aussie but all her family come from China and Vietnam and they go back quite regularly. Shanghai in particular sounds really great.
 
A last gasp winner for Urawa at the weekend against Kashiwa Reysol. They won it 1-2 so a decent away result. They actually got hammered in midweek 5-0 (This is pretty typical of the J-league) Anyway they are joint second with only a few games left to play. *excited*

In other news the leaders Sanfrecce Hiroshima have a striker I mentioned awhile back. Hisato Sato - He scored another two on the weekend to take his season total to 18 from 27 games. Not bad at all. I'd say sign him up but he's about to turn 31 so maybe not.
 
Tits!!!! Urawa lost 3-2 away to Sedai who are second. So they slipped to Third 6 points behind the leaders Hiroshima 🙁 Not many games left now.

Hisato Sato keeps up his goal scoring - Now 20 from 29 games for Hiroshima.
 
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Tits!!!! Urawa lost 3-2 away to Sedai who are second. So they slipped to Third 6 points behind the leaders Hiroshima 🙁 Not many games left now.

Hisato Sato keeps up his goal scoring - Now 20 from 29 games for Hiroshima.
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Crazy round.

Sendai get up over Urawa, Sanfrecce get done by Kashiwa.

Both locked on 54 pts a piece at the top of the table.
 
Not a bad end to the season for Urawa, finished with an Asian Champions League spot.

Was hoping Brisbane would get them in the ACL but not to be 🙁

We got f'ing Vegalta Sendai (providing we beat Buriram in the playoff) who will be on hell of an opponent.
 
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