KAMITONDA, WAKAYAMA PREF. – Nine-hundred invited spectators on Friday watched Japan get its preparations for the London Olympics under way without the driving force behind its astonishing victory at last summer’s Women’s World Cup.
Star midfielder and team captain Homare Sawa is sitting out the four-day training camp in Wakayama Prefecture, the team’s first of the Olympic year, with a pulled right calf muscle that will need three weeks to heal.
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