Tag - u-s-soccer

 
 

U S SOCCER

Japan Times
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 26, 2014
Japan women trounce Hong Kong, reach semifinals
Rika Masuya scored twice as women's world champion Japan took a step closer to defending its Asian Games title on Friday, thrashing Hong Kong 9-0 to advance to the semifinals.
Japan Times
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 25, 2014
Japan routs Palestine, reaches men's soccer quarterfinals
Defending champion Japan reached the Asian Games quarterfinals with a comfortable 4-0 victory over Palestine on Thursday, with coach Makoto Teguramori saying he is looking forward to facing host South Korea in the next round.
Japan Times
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 22, 2014
Nadeshiko down Taiwan to reach quarters
Women's world champion Japan secured its place in the quarterfinals of the Asian Games on Monday with a 3-0 win over Taiwan in their final Group B match.
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 19, 2014
Nadeshiko Japan routs Jordan
Hat tricks by Yuika Sugasawa and Mizuho Sakaguchi fueled the Japan women's soccer team to a 12-0 victory over Jordan at the Asian Games on Thursday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 18, 2014
Nadeshiko Japan trounces Jordan
Hat tricks by Yuika Sugasawa and Mizuho Sakaguchi fueled defending champion Japan to a 12-0 victory over Jordan in women's soccer competition at the Asian Games on Thursday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 18, 2014
Iraq stifles Japan at Asian Games
Japan was schooled 3-1 by Iraq as the defending Asian Games champion missed out on booking a spot in the knockout phase on Wednesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 14, 2014
Japan routs Kuwait in Asian Games opener
Japan launched its Asian Games campaign with victory on Sunday, the defending champion defeating Kuwait 4-1 in the men's soccer competition.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Aug 28, 2014
Aguirre shakes up Japan national squad lineup for upcoming friendlies
New national team manager Javier Aguirre warned Japan's World Cup flops that their reputations will count for nothing as he named his first squad on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 11, 2014
Germany's triumph in Brazil was no surprise
Everything about the 7-1 German victory over Brazil in a World Cup semifinal was logical and even overdue. The entire German soccer system has been working toward this moment since 2001.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 30, 2014
Tokyo: What can Japan learn from its dismal World Cup experience?
In the wake of Japan's early exit from the competition, Mark Buckton went looking for answers about what went wrong.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 26, 2014
Who is the better player, Messi or Maradona?
Who is the better soccer player, Lionel Messi now or Diego Maradona?
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 24, 2014
Gamba defender Kaji to join MLS club Chivas USA
Former Japan defender Akira Kaji will transfer to Major League Soccer's Chivas USA, his J. League first-division club Gamba Osaka announced on Tuesday.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 21, 2014
Park life
Elderly woman (speaking to a man sitting on a park bench drinking beer and listening to a transistor radio): Is that the soccer (match between Japan and Cote d'Ivoire)?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2014
Japan team's 0-0 World Cup draw dismays fans watching from Tokyo
Japanese soccer fans roared in frustration Friday morning after the national team ended its crucial match with Greece with an underwhelming 0-0 draw, making its advance to the second stage of the World Cup highly unlikely, though not impossible.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 16, 2014
World Cup 2014 views from Tokyo: Honduras and Iran
A Honduran diplomat and an Iranian-Japanese schoolboy offer the views on their teams' chances in Brazil.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2014
Fans in Brazil face high crime: ministry
Japanese soccer fans in the Brazilian city of Recife are braving one of the highest homicide rates in the world to see their team open its World Cup campaign.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2014
Chinese World Cup woes provoke self-doubt
China's long-suffering soccer fans keep looking for proxies at World Cup time, all the while grumbling under their breaths about the government's control-freak approach to choosing athletes for the national team and a lack of youth developmental leagues outside of the official system.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 13, 2014
Indian soccer's strange World Cup history
Might the history of Indian soccer have taken a different turn if India's football federation had decided to send the golden generation of the '40s to the World Cup in 1950?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jun 12, 2014
We are the World Cup: anthems from pitches past
Japan plays its first match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, against Côte d’Ivoire this weekend. Although the tournament kicks off two days earlier in São Paulo, for many the Samurai Blue’s opening game ushers in the event, along with the activities that would normally raise eyebrows but get a pass...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2014
Donations send Tohoku kids to World Cup
Soccer fans in Chiba Prefecture have raised more than ¥2.5 million in donations to send four children from Tohoku's Oshika Peninsula to watch the Japan play in the World Cup in Brazil.

Longform

Things may look perfect to the outside world, but today's mom is fine with some imperfection at home.
How 'Reiwa moms' are reshaping motherhood in Japan