Thursday, December 29, 2005

Schedule for March through May

Found this on the BIG SOCCER Japan message board........if it's true, somebody hates Ruy Ramos in the J league offices worse than me!

March 4- Season opener
8-Asian Champions League opener
11-J2
18-J2
21-J2
22- ACL
25-J2
April 1-J2 Happy April Fools day!
5-J2
8-J2
12-ACL
15-J2
18-J2
22-J2
26-ACL
29-J2
May 3- J2 and ACL
6- J2
14-J2
17- J2 and ACL
20-J2

I know the league wanted Verdy to gracefully step aside and allow them to fill the spot with a more......shall we say.........competent squad, but this is just ridiculous if they force Verdy to follow this schedule. Bottom line is Verdy won, they should get to field their best team possible in the Asian Champions League. Verdy shouldn't have to split squad or send their youth squad to represent Japan in a tournament that could lead the club to international prominence. The JFA has nobody to blame but themselves for this farce. I'm not the only one that buys into this position, either.

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