Nadeshiko Japan hero Homare Sawa to miss Tokyo Olympic torch relay
Homare Sawa, the most valuable player and top goal scorer of the World Cup in Germany, is dealing with a long-term condition affecting her inner ear and will not run in the relay.
The members of the Nadeshiko Japan soccer team that won the Women's World Cup in 2011 will open the domestic leg of the Olympic torch relay, the 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee announced Tuesday. Organizers unveiled a detailed route for the relay covering all 47 ...
With new name and mission, Japan Sport Association seeks greater public participation in sports
The Japan Sports Association is modifying its organizational name beginning with the start of the new fiscal year on Sunday. Well, in English, the change is tiny. It will now be called the Japan Sport Association, with "Sport" as a singular noun (the abbreviation becomes ...
Homare Sawa, a former soccer player who was the 2011 Women's World Cup MVP and top scorer, has given birth to a baby girl, her first child, her agent said Tuesday. "The moment I heard my daughter giving her first cry, I was filled with ...
Former FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa said Tuesday she is expecting her first child in January. "I've been blessed with a new life," Sawa, 37, said through a statement released by her management firm. "It's been the heartfelt desire of my ...
Nadeshiko Japan staring into abyss
Since lifting the 2011 Women's World Cup, Japan reached the Olympic final the following year, won the 2014 Women's Asian Cup and returned to the World Cup final last summer in Canada. But have the Nadeshiko finally run out of steam? Friday's 2-1 defeat to China ...
Sawa rips struggling Nadeshiko Japan, questions players' desire
Homare Sawa just couldn't take it anymore. The former FIFA Women's World Player of the Year tore into Nadeshiko Japan on Thursday, questioning the heart of some of the players after a disastrous start to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics qualifying campaign. The morning after Japan ...
Japan Football Association president Kuniya Daini said Friday that he is mulling the possibility of nominating recently retired former Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa for FIFA's new council. At least one female representative will be selected from each confederation in the new ...
Frankfurt striker Yuki Ogimi has inherited the No. 10 shirt from retired icon Homare Sawa as manager Norio Sasaki announced the Nadeshiko Japan team for the women's final Asian qualifiers for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Out of 20 members named on Thursday, 16 remain from ...
Japan coach Norio Sasaki says his players must adapt to life without talismanic midfielder Homare Sawa as he named his squad for the team's first training camp since the former Women's World Player of the Year retired last month. Sasaki named a squad of 26 ...
Homare Sawa has always been regarded as a winner throughout her long career. And she was still thought of in that way when she left the pitch for the final time. Sawa, the 2011 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year, scored the game-winning goal ...
Homare Sawa will take to the field on Sunday for the very last time in her 25-year career, and the women's soccer icon is determined to end on a high note with the Empress' Cup in her hand, and with a goal, too. "It will ...
