The FC Gifu club will be sending a club van with lots of bottled drinking water to Mito's Twin Field on Sunday, along with 500 free tickets for Mito fans to attend an upcoming away game in Gifu.
To be fair, I've been drinking and showering with Mito water and haven't yet gained any new eyes or limbs from radiation... But it's the thought and gesture that counts!
And conspiracy theorists may wonder if the tickets would be an attempt to pad Gifu's numbers just enough to force Mito back down as the least attended club in J. League, after the club overtook Gifu in attendance last year... But it's the thought and gesture that counts!
I'll try to be at Twin Field on Sunday to welcome the shipment.
31 March 2011
24 March 2011
Mito Mentioned on CNN
CNN International's World Sport segment mentions the return of J. League fixtures in about a month. The written article is at:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/football/03/22/football.japan.jleague.fixtures/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Mito is mentioned along with Kashima and Sendai as locations unsure about stadium conditions following the earthquake.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/football/03/22/football.japan.jleague.fixtures/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Mito is mentioned along with Kashima and Sendai as locations unsure about stadium conditions following the earthquake.
23 March 2011
14 March 2011
No games in March
In addition to the last leg, the two next legs of matches will not be played due to the continued recovery of Friday's natural disasters.
12 March 2011
Survive! To cancel!
I'm happy to have made it through the quake that hit Mito HARD yesterday and still reverberates.
Tomorrow's match at Tokyo Verdy, along with all matches in Japan this weekend, are called off.
Tomorrow's match at Tokyo Verdy, along with all matches in Japan this weekend, are called off.
06 March 2011
Mito 2 - 1 Kyoto
In the home opener, Mito beat Kyoto for the first time in a surprising result.
An early goal by defender Kato (his first) set the pace and another debut goal by rookie Okamoto was just enough to take the win over a tough Kyoto side.
An early goal by defender Kato (his first) set the pace and another debut goal by rookie Okamoto was just enough to take the win over a tough Kyoto side.
03 March 2011
Looking towards 2011
The home game kickoff is in two days, as Kyoto visits K's Stadium for the first time.
The team has been finalized with a new player from Tsukuba University coming in to the squad on Monday, and this is the first year of no rented players in recent memory. Almost all the new players are from high school or university sides. The two who are not have come from Mito's main rivals, Tochigi and Kusatsu, each of whom also received previously Mito players (and unfortunately, good ones) in return.
A lot is unknown about how the team will play but hope can be taken in Sunday's preseason match. Mito defeated Kashiwa 1-0 in a great game with both sides throwing out their best. Mito's youth seems able to provide strong challenges and if all goes well, we could see a 2008-style run of quality that nobody was expecting beforehand.
Knowing league success would be difficult, new coach Hashiratani set a still lofty and somewhat more unorthodox goal: winning the Emperor's Cup. The prize money and publicity theoretically bringing more possibility to the club than a good but not promotion-attaining league finish.
The team has been finalized with a new player from Tsukuba University coming in to the squad on Monday, and this is the first year of no rented players in recent memory. Almost all the new players are from high school or university sides. The two who are not have come from Mito's main rivals, Tochigi and Kusatsu, each of whom also received previously Mito players (and unfortunately, good ones) in return.
A lot is unknown about how the team will play but hope can be taken in Sunday's preseason match. Mito defeated Kashiwa 1-0 in a great game with both sides throwing out their best. Mito's youth seems able to provide strong challenges and if all goes well, we could see a 2008-style run of quality that nobody was expecting beforehand.
Knowing league success would be difficult, new coach Hashiratani set a still lofty and somewhat more unorthodox goal: winning the Emperor's Cup. The prize money and publicity theoretically bringing more possibility to the club than a good but not promotion-attaining league finish.
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