2012 FIFA Club World Cup – Cheering for Chelsea in Japan
The 2012 FIFA Club World Cup will be held in Japan and starts on December 6 with the finals set to take place on 16 December 2012. Other than this being a football tournament being held in Japan I am extra excited because my favourite football team – Chelsea Football Club will also be participating....
Jamaica’s Medals at the 2012 London Olympics
The sprinting capital of the world has had another successful Olympics. 4 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 4 bronze medals for a total of 12 medals, our best haul in terms of number of medals but our second best in terms of quality of medals. The entire Jamaican Olympic team did well so as promised...
Usain Bolt is a Sprinting Legend – Congrats to the entire Jamaican Olympic Team
Jamaica has set the London Olympics on fire plundering 12 medals – 4 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 4 bronze medals. The Japan scholar in me can’t resit highlighting that four (Shi) is a unlucky number in Japanese culture but to us Jamaicans 4, at least for the time being, is our favourite...
6 Jamaican Sprinters to watch at the London Olympics 2012
The London 2012 Olympic Games are underway but while a couple Jamaican’s such as the Alia Atkinson has been involved in swimming and a few other events such as Equestrian and Judo the majority of us are waiting for athletics to start! With some of the biggest names in sprinting Jamaica is expected...
Japanese Women clinch World Cup title
The Women’s football team from Japan won their first ever World Cup after they beat the United States of America in the final held in Frankfurt Germany in a stadium full to it’s 50,000 capacity. I had been following highlights from each match throughout the tournament and must say I...
Japan are 2011 Asian Cup Champions
At the start of January when the 2011 Asian cup was about to start I made me bold, bias and sensible prediction that Japan would walk away with the cup this year. The Blue Samurai didn’t disappointed me and building on their excellent performance at the World Cup last year then went on to beat Australian 1-0...
2011 Asian Cup – Japan will win it!
The football fan in me doesn’t only get excited every four years when the FIFA World Cup of rolls around. I keep up to date with most major regional tournaments like the Africa Cup of Nations, European Championships and my region’s own CONCACAF Gold Cup – which should start later this...
Japan misses out on Hosting 2022 World Cup
Japan’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup of Football was defeated by Qatar in the bidding process earlier today at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich Switzerland. As expected the 2018 tournament was awarded to a European country with Russia walking away with that honor.
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Japan bidding to Host 2022 World Cup
The 2010 World Cup only recently finished after being successfully staged in South Africa. We already know that the 2014 world Cup is headed to Brazil and that it is widely believed that the 2018 games will be awarded to a European country. However the 2022 World Cup bid race is still an open one and...
Japan Falls to Paraguay on Penalties
Japan’s run at the 2010 FIFA World Cup came to an end in the round of 16 when they were beaten 5-4 on penalties by Paraguay. The Blue Samurai and the red and white clad South Americans played out an largely uneventful 90 minutes in which the Japanese seemed tired and the Paraguayans refusing to...
